How to prepare forces for combat operations in a high-technology armed conflict.
In November 2006, Riga, Latvia, hosted a NATO meeting at the level of heads of state and government. One of its main results was the Comprehensive Political Guidance, a document reiterating that collective defense was, as before, the main aim of the Alliance. The new element, however, was that...

Security assistance after September 11.
Among the countless repercussions from September 11 is a new rationale for doling out security assistance: the war on terrorism. Not since anticommunism was used to excuse the arming and training of repressive governments during the cold war has there been such a broad, fail-safe rationale to provide military...

The new business of war: small arms and the proliferation of conflict.
In his "We the Peoples" report issued in conjunction with the September 2000 United Nations Millennium Summit, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan advocated a re-energized worldwide effort to prevent war by promoting democracy, human rights, and "balanced economic development"--and by curbing "illicit transfers of weapons, money, or natural resources" that...

U.S. security strategies: a legal assessment.
In less than five years, the United States has participated in three major military campaigns, each an apparent departure from then-prevailing use-of-force paradigms. NATO conducted the first, Operation Allied Force, in 1999, to end abuse of the Kosovar Albanians by ethnic Serbs of the Yugoslav security forces and to...

The Cots revolution. (Complete Guide).
While the general market for defence products is shrinking, one area faces a market growth in double digits. Even before 11 September 2001, the market for embedded commercial off-the-shelf (Cots) technology was growing at more than ten per cent per year. Some observers expect this rate to increase, and...

Iraq Sanctions Link To Peace Process Resurfaces As The Palestinian Situation Worsens.
*** There Are Indications That Baghdad May Show Some Flexibility Towards The Latest Ideas For Easing The Embargo, Despite Its Rejection Of The 'Smart' Sanctions Idea; But It Will Not Agree To More UN Control Of Its Revenues *** Riyadh Says The Recent Series Of Bomb Blasts...

US concern at Chinese military buildup.
A report by the office US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld says China is at a "strategic crossroads" as it works intensively to increase and modernize its military capabilities. The annual report on China's military, required by congress, portrays an active, multi-faceted and secretive Chinese military modernisation programme, encompassing new...

Incremental steps for achieving space security: the need for a new way of thinking to enhance the legal regime for space.
I. INTRODUCTION II. AN EXAMINATION OF THE CURRENT LEGAL REGIME FOR SPACE IS NECESSARY TO DETERMINE HOW TO IMPROVE IT A. The Origins of the Space Regime B. The Evolution of the Space Environment 1. New Actors Due to the Commercialization of Space 2. The Reality of Space Weapons...

On the management of day-to-day activities of SMF units and bodies of troops.
At this juncture, all spheres of management activity have become significantly expanded and complicated that imposes special requirements on the training of the heads of all management levels. The analysis of the quality of the management activity of defense chiefs, which covers the wide scope of subordinate...

They're back: Afghanistan's Taliban stage a comeback.
KABUL, Afghanistan -- They were supposed to have been defeated four years ago, on the run, close to collapse. No longer. The dark-turbaned Taliban are back, killing people in an effort to undermine Afghanistan's two-year-old government. In recent weeks, Taliban fighters have set off car bombs, attacked...