Germany Won’t Fight
France has intervened in Mali to stop an assault of rebel forces from the north of the country. While Britain has supplied two transport aircraft to airlift equipment to the West African state, Germany...
View ArticleThe Boko Haram Bandwagon
Founded in 2001 by flat-worlder Mohammad Yusuf, the Salafist group Boko Haram (“Western education is sinful”) morphed into a Jihadist entity and, under Abubakar Shekau‘s guidance, launched their wave...
View ArticleThe Algerian Hostage Dead: NATO Is Responsible
While the West may be reluctant to put more boots on the ground due to the growing frustration from the general public, we are likely to see more military interventions this decade. What do Libya, Mali...
View ArticleAvoiding The Entanglement Trap Lies Beyond French Control
France is better off sticking to limited objectives in the short term, or faces the prospects of its own Afghanistan. France has entered the Malian conflict this week following a surprise rebel...
View ArticleThe Algerian Response, Motives & Consequences
In the aftermath of the operation of In Amenas, a number of questions remain to be answered including what exactly happened at the gas facility and how a security breach of this scale was ever...
View ArticleL’intervento francese in Mali: una trappola fuori controllo
Se vuole evitare di rimanere intrappolata nel suo Afghanistan, la Francia farebbe meglio a darsi obiettivi limitati. a Francia si è inserita nel conflitto in corso in Mali a seguito di un’improvvisa...
View ArticleMali d’Europa
Un amaro cor(ro)sivo per un invito alla riflessione. E un messaggio di speranza, nonostante tutto. i sono levate, le anime belle dell’Occidente, contro l’operazione neo-colonialista della Francia in...
View ArticleAfter Mali: Tunisia’s Foreign Policy
The current Tunisian government has to move from a mere opposition party to a governing regime, a task that is now further complicated by domestic issues, regional instability, and the weakness of its...
View ArticleLibya, Two Years After Gaddafi
A monopoly over the legitimate use of violence- the hallmark of a sovereign state- must be regained by the Libyan government. Security issues should be the priority, as they prevent every other sector...
View ArticleMali: Intervention, Invasion, and Invention
Broadly, it may be that intervention is a limited and fundamentally flawed approach, but to say that some invented Western Empire marches on Africa to secure its dominance is to simplify a complex...
View ArticleFrench Motives In Mali
Mali’s resources, argued by some commentators to be the primary motivation for the intervention in January, are negligible and are unlikely to have motivated French intervention. France sent armour,...
View ArticleLibia: due anni dopo Gheddafi
Il governo libico, come ogni stato sovrano, deve riconquistare il monopolio sull’esercizio legittimo della forza. La sicurezza deve essere la priorità su cui basare la crescita di ogni altro settore....
View ArticleLe motivazioni francesi dell’intervento in Mali
Le risorse del Mali non risultano particolarmente significative, e ciò sembra smentire che l’intervento francese sia stato motivato da interessi energetici. el gennaio scorso, le truppe francesi sono...
View ArticleThe European Union’s Short Legs
European defence ministers need to take a dispassionate look at what capabilities are duplicated by maintaining 26 separate national defence industries and consolidate appropriately. In a recent...
View ArticleLe gambe corte dell’Unione Europea
Sarebbe auspicabile che i Ministri della difesa europei prendessero in attenta considerazione la possibilità di duplicare le proprie capacità, mantenendo distinte le ventisei industrie nazionali della...
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