Military experts propose scaling back Afghanistan War

The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) is the world’s leading think tank for military affairs, representing the top echelon of defense experts, retired officers and senior military men from countries including the United States, Britain, China, Russia and India. And the IISS’s latest findings will certainly convince skeptics that the real reason for occupation […]

Al-Qaeda Taliban threat exaggerated by the western powers

The London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) is the world’s leading think tank for military affairs. It represents the top echelon of defense experts, retired officers and senior military men, spanning the globe from the United States and Britain to China, Russia and India. The IISS issued an explosive report on Afghanistan that says […]

Military Comparisons between the U.S. and Iran

One of the more remarkable features about the endless drumbeat of alarm about Iran is that it pays virtually no attention to Iran’s actual capabilities, and rests on all sorts of worst case assumptions about Iranian behavior. Consider the following facts, most of them courtesy of the 2010 edition of The Military Balance, published annually […]