Special to WorldTribune.com Analysis by correspondents in Addis Ababa, GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs Ethiopian Prime Minister Dr Abiy Ahmed Ali on June 28 called a unilateral ceasefire in military operations against the Tigré (Tigray) Popular Liberation Front (TPLF) forces in Tigré Region of Ethiopia. This allowed TPLF forces unfettered access to the regional capital, Mekelle, […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs LONDON — Incoming UK Prime Minister Theresa May on the evening of July 13, 2016, was asked by the Sovereign, Queen Elizabeth II, to form a new Government, following the resignation of Prime Minister David Cameron. Immediately after her audience with the Queen she announced the key […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Gregory R. Copley, Editor, GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs Egypt’s military leadership entered August 2013 without any illusions as to the magnitude of the challenges facing the Egyptian Armed Forces, the Egyptian government, and all of Egypt, in the coming months and years. The decision by the Supreme Council of the Armed […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Analysis by Gregory R. Copley, Editor, GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs, September 26, 2022 Most of Iran’s 36 provinces saw mass demonstrations in September 2022 against the clerical Government of the Islamic Republic, and, as with earlier periodic waves of demonstrations, each occurrence prompts the question: Is this the outburst which topples the […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Analysis by Gregory R. Copley, Editor, GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs, Sept. 22, 2022 Russian President Vladimir Putin finally abandoned hope only in mid-September 2022 that he could re-build a bridge to the West. With that realization, he committed Russia into the new anti-Western pact. The turning point was the signal Putin received from the United Kingdom […]
FPI / September 21, 2022 Geostrategy-Direct With the global media fixated on the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II, Great Britain was simultaneously coming under a new prime minister committed to fundamental policy transformation. In one of her first acts as UK Prime Minister, Liz Truss and her new Conservative Party government opened the exploitation of […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Analysis by Gregory R. Copley, Editor, GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs, August 5, 2022 Communist Party of China (CPC) General Secretary Xi Jinping’s internal civil war against his party rivals in the build-up to the XXth CPC National Congress — now likely to occur in November 2022 — took on new dimensions with […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Analysis by GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs, with input from Kyiv correspondent The ongoing Russia-Ukraine war — even as part of a much larger strategic conflict — has already begun to yield significant lessons for statecraft and military operations. The conflict was far from resolved during April 2022. But regardless of the completion […]
FPI / February 23, 2022 Geostrategy-Direct Analysis by Gregory R. Copley, Editor, GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs Why did the U.S. Joe Biden Administration choose this time to cause Russian President Vladimir Putin to trigger recognition of the sovereignty of two small regions in the south-east of Ukraine? That President Putin acted at this time, and […]
Special to WorldTribune.com by Regional staff, GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs Samantha Power, the Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) left Addis Ababa on the evening of Aug. 4 dissatisfied that she had not enforced Washington’s writ on Ethiopia. Hers was no ordinary mission of aid and mercy. She was there ostensibly on […]
