Military Balance 2009 - Press Coverage
- 27 Jan 2009 - - Sky News - 'Uranium For Iran Nuke By 2009'
Iran will have enough enriched uranium to make a single nuclear weapon later this year, the prestigious International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) predicts.
- 27 Jan 2009 - - Press Trust of India - Pak has not rolled up extensive terror network: IISS
"Pakistan subsequently closed down training camps and offices of the banned Islamist militant group Lashkar-e-Toeba and its front organisation Jamaat-ud-Daawa, held responsible for the Mumbai attacks," the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) said today.
"There, no doubt, remains an extensive element of the network that has not been rolled up," Dr John Chipman, Director-General and Chief Executive of the IISS told media persons.
- 27 Jan 2009 - - Agence France Presse - Crisis hits defence budgets
THE global slowdown will stretch defence budgets worldwide, notably complicating the task of new US President Barack Obama as he switches foreign policy focus, a top thinktank said on Tuesday.
As Mr Obama moves to pull troops from Iraq and bolster forces in Afghanistan he will face continuing tensions with Nato allies, themselves also tightening belts at home, said the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS).
- 27 Jan 2009 - - Agence France Presse - China to begin projecting military around the world: analysts
China is likely to begin deploying its military increasingly further from its borders, analysts at a top thinktank said on Tuesday.
The Asian power was also unlikely to constrain its defence budget because of an economic downturn that has left the World Bank forecasting the slowest pace of growth in China since 1990, the analysts at the International Institute for Strategic Studies said.
- 27 Jan 2009 - - Reuters - Afghanistan at critical point, poll at risk - IISS
Afghanistan is entering its most critical phase since the U.S.-led invasion in 2001, a leading think-tank said on Tuesday, with the risk that widening violence will mean planned elections cannot be held this year.
"The integrity of the whole international mission in Afghanistan is ... very substantially at stake," John Chipman, director of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, said as he unveiled the group's 2009 global military outlook.
- 27 Jan 2009 - - United Press International - Report: Lack of unity hurts Afghan effort
are showing in the NATO alliance's campaign in Afghanistan, just as a new U.S. president has vowed to beef up efforts there, a think tank says.
The International Institute for Strategic Studies, in a report released in London Tuesday, warned the lack of what it called a "unified approach" by NATO in Afghanistan is undermining its efforts to defeat the country's Taliban insurgency.
