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NIGHTWATCH Extract: Pakistan Failing, Waziristan Rampant

Pakistan Failing For the US, the political instability means that the government will remain unwilling to order the Army to undertake operations in the tribal areas anytime soon. The Army opposes such operations which it considers not part of its mission, as waging war against Pakistani citizens and a police chore, not a defense task. …

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Journal: Future Hotspots?

Forecast 2011: Conflict Hotspots Overview Watershed Year for Pakistan Tajikistan, Preparing for a Long Winter Russia’s North Caucasus, the Terrorism Revival News Articles (302) Publications (864) Primary Resources (25) Links (27) Organizations (25) 23 December 2010 Political hotzones 2011? Where in the world will conflict flare in the new year? This special, expanded edition of …

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Journal: Understanding Iran…and the future of IO

Stakelbeck on Terror | Inside Iran’s Revolutionary Guards CBN (Christian Broadcast Network), 14 December 2010 On this week’s special edition of Stakelbeck on Terror, CBN News goes inside Iran’s fearsome Revolutionary Guards Corps with Reza Khalili, a former member who worked undercover for the CIA to bring down the Iranian regime. The Revolutionary Guards Corps …

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Journal: Egypt Elections–Muslim Brotherhood Loses, Internet Wins

Philip N. Howard Professor and Director of Project on Information Technology and Political Islam Posted: December 3, 2010 10:57 AM EXTRACT: But Mubarak’s real enemy is no longer the Muslim Brotherhood. It is a complex, fractured umbrella group, and the practice of faith and opposition to Mubarak may not be enough to hold it together …

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Journal: What is the Nature of the Shia-Sunni/Persian-Arab Confrontation?

Much ado is being made of the “revelation” in the Wikileaks data dump that some Sunni Arab leaders were quietly in favor of an American and/or Israeli strike on Iran to terminate Iran’s alleged nuclear weapons program with extreme prejudice.  Implicit in this war-mongering hysteria is an acceptance of an implacable Shia-Sunni conflict threatening the …

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