Conflicts Forum’s Weekly Comment, 27 Nov – 4 Dec 2015 Jeremy Warner, Assistant Editor of the Telegraph, tells us an iconic story which somehow encapsulates all

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21-27 Nov 2015 Turkey’s apparently deliberated destruction – or ambush – of a Russian ground attack aircraft engaged on counter–terrorism operations within Syria undoubtedly gives

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Alastair Crooke, World Post/ Huffington Post, 17 Nov 2015  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alastair-crooke/paris-attack-isis-qaeda_b_8582180.html?utm_hp_ref=world  At this point, there are important components to events which are not clear: Were the

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Conflicts Forum, 13 November 2015  “We also have to work – though sort of on the dark side – if you will” Dick Cheney When, in

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Conflicts Forum’s Weekly Comment, 30 Oct – 6 Nov 2015 When political events deviate from established, past patterns, it is useful to ask ‘why?’ —

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Weekly Comment, 23-30 Oct 2015 There is little more than a year remaining in which President Obama can hope to cement his foreign policy legacy. 

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Weekly Comment, 16-21 Oct 2015 (This comment was published in a shorter format on WorldPost / Huffington Post: Why Russia Perceives Syria as Its Front

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Alastair Crooke, The WorldPost/Huffington Post, 9 October 2015 BEIRUT — As soon as Russia launched the first stages of its military campaign in Syria, world media erupted

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Conflicts Forum’s Weekly Comment, 18 – 25 Sept 2015 A change in tone does not come more powerfully than this: six months ago, the UK

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