A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm / Israel / Turkey / Jordan / Palestinian 22 Aug 2013 | 08:03 pm

Following is a report prepared by The Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies’ “Study Group on a New Israeli Strategy Toward 2000.” The main substantive ideas in this paper emerge from ...

Mediterranean Gas Outlook Threatened by War 22 Aug 2013 | 04:30 pm

The population in the eastern Mediterranean region is expected to increase by as much as 35 percent in the next 20 years. Natural gas deposits in the Levant Basin are expected to keep the energy needs...

Egypt Gen.El-Sisi / US Army War College-Democracy in the MiddleEast-2006 22 Aug 2013 | 01:13 am

Cairo – Egypt’s new defense minister has pledged his “unwavering commitment” to the American-Egyptian military alliance, Defense SecretaryLeon Panetta said. Lt. Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi also “stress...

Canada is secretly testing “Loki” * Arctic powers [future operations] 21 Aug 2013 | 03:41 pm

While Canada is secretly testing “Loki”, a CAN$620,000 stealth snowmobile designed for covert operations in the Far North, Russia’s elite Spetsnaz commandoes are developing specialized units to be dep...

Tit for Tat: Dealing with Iran -FEB 24, 2012 16 Aug 2013 | 12:36 am

By Fariborz Ghadar  Center for Strategic and International Studies FEB 24, 2012 A few weeks ago, I wrote “With Republican candidates debating and issuing policy statements, one might be led to believe...

Brain Project : MIT Scientists create false memories 15 Aug 2013 | 03:59 pm

US brain project puts focus on ethics Unsettling research advances bring neuroethics to the fore. Helen Shen 14 August 2013 Optical stimulation of light-responsive neurons in engineered mice can be us...

Energy Security: Israel weighs using Iron Dome to protect new Mediterranean energy assets 6 Aug 2013 | 02:57 am

AUGUST 1, 2013 Source: World Tribune The Israel Navy, strapped for funds, has been examiningrequirements to secure the nation’s new natural gas reserves. The Navy has been discussing energy security r...

The Geo-strategic Importance of the Red Sea 5 Aug 2013 | 09:48 pm

  The Arabian Peninsula Seas contain two of the most important strategic waterways in the world: Bab Al-Mandab and Strait of Hormuz. Without them much of the geopolitics of the Horn of Africa and Sout...

The Shale Oil Boom – A U.S. Phenomenon 1 Aug 2013 | 04:09 pm

Using “mathematical jigsaw puzzles” to encrypt software 31 Jul 2013 | 05:33 pm

Published 31 July 2013 Researchers have designed a system to encrypt software so that it only allows someone to use a program as intended while preventing any deciphering of the code behind it. This i...