Special to WorldTribune.com Compiled by Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com In a surprise announcement, Australia Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced April 17 that she would present NATO with a plan in August to withdraw all 1,550 Australian troops from Afghanistan by the end of 2013, one year earlier than the original December 2014 schedule, when most NATO […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Uwe Siemon-Netto As Christianity is set to celebrate its highest feast in the church year, a Christian from overseas may be forgiven for asking his American coreligionists two troubling questions concerning the faltering campaign of Sen. Rick Santorum and the trivialization of life-and-death concerns in the current electoral season of the […]
Sol W. Sanders [See Archive Two recent deeply intertwined violent events demonstrate the terrible burden hanging on the outcome of U.S. intervention in Afghanistan and Pakistan. An American soldier’s rampage allegedly taking the lives of 17 Afghan villagers paralleled the attack of a Franco-Mahgrebian youth resulting in seven deaths of French [Muslim] veterans and Jewish […]
Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — The U.S. Treasury Department has imposed sanctions on Gen. Gholamreza Baghbani, an officer in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Baghbani, assigned to IRGC’s Quds Force, was said to have overseen drug trafficking from Afghanistan through Iran in cooperation with Taliban. “Today’s action exposes IRGC-QF involvement in trafficking narcotics, made doubly […]
Sol W. Sanders Looking around the world, the striking characteristic is waiting out a number of crises. Their outcome seems almost artificially suspended, and their interaction on one another and their ultimate effect on the world is at issue. We start with the Euro. Chancellor Angela Merkel’s supplications in Beijing were perhaps laudable but a […]
Special to WorldTribune.com ABU DHABI — The U.S. military has begun using Kuwait for air defense operations in the Gulf. The U.S. Air Force has re-assigned key units based in Iraq for air defense missions in the Gulf. The missions have been based in Kuwait and included the Air Force’s 727th Expeditionary Air Control Squadron, […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Gregory Copley, Global Information System Most strategic allies of the United States are waking up after the long Cold War and post-Cold War party with the realization that their efforts to integrate their military doctrine with that of the U.S. have led them to evolve force structures which require enormous capital investment […]