Strategic Comments 2010

The contents of Volume 16 are listed below. To read the summaries from a particular month, with links to the full text, select the issue from the navigation bar to the right.

December

• German armed forces face big changes
• India and China eye each other warily 
• AU's regional force still on standby
• Saudi Arabia: testing times ahead
• Diplomatic shifts in the warming Arctic 

November

• UK cost-cutting review shrinks military capacity
• Lebanon indictments set to raise tensions
• The ambitious UK–France defence accord
• California vote postpones rethink on global drugs trade
• Dashed hopes for Turkish–Armenian rapprochement
• Brazil's Rousseff has a tough act to follow
• NATO: more consensus, but challenges remain

October

• Mistrust prevents formation of Iraqi government
• UK army may escape big cuts – for now
• Climate science: 'well done, could do better'
• Terrorist threats in Europe: hype or reality?
• US intensifies drone strikes in Pakistan
• China's three-point naval strategy
• Turkey's bid to raise influence in Middle East

September

• India's Maoist challenge

• Moscow plays both sides on Nagorno-Karabakh

• UK air force may have its wings clipped

• Somalia's al-Shabaab steps up attacks

• Long march of China's military reform 

• Pakistan's floods: broader implications

• Rough seas ahead for UK navy

• Japan's leader faces hurdles after winning vote

August

• Northern route eases supplies to US forces in Afghanistan

July

• Kuwait: signs of renewal  

June

• Hizbullah’s alleged Scuds raise storm clouds over Lebanon

• Balkan crime jeopardises EU accession hopes

May

• Chinese navy's new strategy in action

• US presses ahead with Iran sanctions

• Elections in Myanmar offer hope of change

• Unrest in Thailand indicates deeper problems 

April

• Mistrust bedevils Yemen's foreign relations

• Obama's presidency bolstered by political success

• UK election could herald untidy politics

• New START provides for significant arms cuts 

• Heavy debt after financial crisis threatens further instability

• Nuclear summit strengthens security measures

March

• Deal saves Europe's transport aircraft 

• Dubai's debt woes expose flaws in governance model

February 

• Receding prospects for Middle East peace

• United States struggles to craft Pakistan policy

• China's successful anti-missile test 

• UAE leads Gulf nuclear-power plans

January

• Copenhagen Accord faces first test

• Rising extremism in South Asia

• Serbia surges forward