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Greater Critical Thinking Following the “Arab Spring”
The so-called “Arab Spring” has changed the thought process for many who live in the Middle East and most specifically their thinking about the role of the military within transitioning democracies....
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Yemenis: Doing it for Themselves!
The conclusion of Yemen’s National Dialogue Conference (NDC) provides an unprecedented opportunity for Yemen. President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi during the closing of the National Dialogue Conference...
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Tanks in Cyberspace
Wikimedia What are the similarities between tanks and cyberspace? What lessons can be identified and learned? When the British first used the tank in combat at Flers-Courcelette in April of 1916 and...
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War Among the Proxies: Multi-Polar Cold Wars
New War Theorist scholars have tried to identify and predict new lines of international conflict following the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989, the subsequent collapse of the former Soviet...
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Why Yemen’s Fight against Al-Qaeda is about Survival
As Yemen enters the post-National Dialogue Conference period, theory and practice are colliding; the constitutional referendum will take place in June followed by hopefully credible presidential and...
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Three Short Stories about Israel and the Palestinian Authority
Perhaps the most perplexing element of the ongoing (and going and going…) Israeli and Palestinian conflict is that nearly every effort to bring resolution is met with the same stubborn fate of...
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Yemen’s Prospects for Membership in the Gulf Cooperation Council
DoD Photo The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) was created in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in 1981 under the rationale of Arabian Peninsula collective defense following the catalytic tremors of the 1978...
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Yemen Re-Balancing
Martin Sojka Sadly for many Americans Yemen is all about the bombing of the USS Cole, Al-Qaeda, former President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s exploits, terrorism, drones, political violence during the ongoing...
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Climate Change and Implications for National Security
DoD Photo “If you wait until you have 100 percent certainty, something bad is going to happen…” – General Gordon R. Sullivan, Retired, former U.S. Army Chief of Staff Our planet is 4.5 billion years...
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Yemen’s Houthis and their “Peaceful Revolution”
Hugh Macleod/IRIN Yemen’s armed forces remain on high alert as hundreds of heavily armed rebel Shia-Zaidi Houthi fighters – supported by thousands of unarmed protesters – remain at the Northern,...
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Understanding the ISIL Trinity
via Youtube Several weeks ago an upstart violent Islamist organization declared it had succeeded – where Al Qaeda and others before them had failed – in establishing an Islamic caliphate. In the time...
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Houthi Tribesmen Continue to Pose a Risk to Yemen
Annasofie Flamand/IRIN Houthi tribesmen light up the evening sky with endless gunfire in downtown Sana’a. Everyone is really frightened. The Houthis have moved into the capital, taken over government...
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Yemen On the Brink: A Failure of Democracy?
Anadolu Yemen is again in the headlights and headlines. Yesterday more than 60 people were killed by Al-Qaeda on the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) during attacks targeting a Houthi gathering in the capital...
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Yemen’s Three Futures
Reuters The Houthis and Al Qaeda on the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) fighters have engaged in open street battles in Yemen. The death toll rises every day. The Houthis, like Hezbollah, their Iranian proxy...
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Staying the Course: Support for Yemen
via Youtube Tensions are high in Yemen after the discovery of two bombs outside the home of President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi in Sana’a on November 8 and a thwarted assassination attempt on the life of...
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Abu Dhabi: A Murder Most Foul
via Youtube thyroid medication The murder of American kindergarten teacher Ms. Ibolya Ryan in daylight in a restroom on Reem Island, Abu Dhabi, on Monday has shocked the country, particularly as it...
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Yemen: A Meta-Mess
Yemenis wake up in the morning hearing the news of suicide bombings and attacks in their country and most recently of extremist elements from within their country acting violently internationally. The...
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Yemen: A Handful of Dust?
thyroid medication The Houthi militia are an army of revolution. They are intent on change in Yemen and are linked to and some say orchestrated by Iran. As they have tightened their grip on Yemen,...
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Yemen’s New Youth Revolution
thyroid medication Thousands of Yemeni youth are protesting against the Houthi militia in Sana’a. The Houthis have tightened their grip on the capital and other cities across the Western swathe of...
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When Enough is Enough, Time to Act!
thyroid medication The catalogue of atrocities committed by Daesh pails in comparison to any committed even by Al Qaeda core. Their public executions by beheading and now by burning alive, must be...
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