Conflicts Forum

Part one: Winning the intelligence war
By Alastair Crooke and Mark Perry, Asia Times, October 12, 2006
Introduction
Writing five years after the attacks of September 11, 2001, US military expert Anthony Cordesman published an account of the Israeli-Hezbollah conflict. “Preliminary Lessons of the Israeli-Hezbollah War” created enormous interest in the Pentagon, where it was studied by planners […]

Part two: Winning the ground war
By Alastair Crooke and Mark Perry, Asia Times, October 13, 2006
Israel’s decision to launch a ground war to accomplish what its air force had failed to do was made hesitantly and haphazardly. While Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) units had been making forays into southern Lebanon during the second week of […]

Disarmament vs. demilitarization: A case study of military integration in the Lebanese post-conflict environment
Conflicts Forum is pleased to announce that the United States Institute of Peace has awarded $50,000 to Conflicts Forum to conduct a research study on “disarmament vs demilitarisation.” The research project will investigate the efficacy of the two approaches and how they […]

The latest issue of Conflicts Forum’s newsletter features:
Conflicts Forum Briefing Series: Washington II - a report on recent briefings given in Washington DC by Alastair Crooke and Mark Perry at the United States Institute for Peace, the Princeton Project on National Security, and the New America Foundation.
Calculating Iran’s Iraq impact: ‘It’s too late to switch […]

From our Baghdad correspondent
Condoleezza Rice’s recent visit to Iraq was intended to show support for the battered government of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, but it was clear from the moment the Secretary of State arrived that the US was beginning to shift its political stance. A senior member of the al-Tawafuq Bloc told this […]

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Researcher and activist who worked for several years in Afghanistan during and after the Soviet occupation. We regret to announce that Juliet recently died. Her extraordinary life and work are remembered in a tribute to her appearing in the latest issue of “In the Frontline” [PDF].
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