Day: February 18, 2018

The Battle That Never Happened

February 18, 2018 Opinion

The Russian military has just suffered in Syria its biggest loss of life in a single action fought on foreign soil since the Soviet war in Afghanistan. Furthermore, the Russians were killed by US gunn…

Lebanon – Should it be Devil, Deep Blue Sea… or Russia?

February 18, 2018 Opinion

Lebanon, as so often in the past, is facing mortal danger. Saudi Arabia is putting great pressure on the Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri, a powerful but controversial figure who holds dual nati…

Putin’s Grand Bargain to Israel: Can Israel Digest It?

February 18, 2018 Opinion

“Israel is climbing up a high horse,” Alex Fishman (the veteran Israeli Defence Correspondent) wrote in the Hebrew daily, Yedioth Ahronoth, last month, “and is approaching with giant steps a ‘war of c…

There Is No Justice in Our World

February 18, 2018 Opinion

A gathering of rich oil Arabs pledged $30 billion this week at a meeting in Kuwait to start rebuilding war-shattered Iraq. Sounds nice but these kinds of conclaves are notorious for offering big but d…

America: A Military Nation

February 18, 2018 Opinion

Americans like to think of their country as different from those run by military regimes. They are only fooling themselves. Ever since the federal government was converted into a national-security sta…

Syria Strikes Back as Israel Discovers Its Warplanes Aren’t Invincible

February 18, 2018 Opinion

Israel has long been the unchallenged bully in the Middle East, but now Tel Aviv will face consequences for its temper tantrums. That was the message from Damascus last weekend when the Syrian army sh…

Analysis of American Intelligence and Military Operations: The Tet Offensive

February 18, 2018 History

Preparations for the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong launched Tet Offensive started months before the evening of January 31, 1968. In 1967 the Vietnam-American War was stalled. The United States had pr…

English: The Language of Deception or The Language of Truth?

February 18, 2018 Opinion

In January of this year, Iran moved to cancel the teaching of English in primary schools in order to protect Iranian children from exposure to western originated English language propaganda designed t…