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The Military Balance 2005/6 Press Coverage

 
  • An exercise in bravado Iran's great strength is its manpower: an army numbering 350,000 soldiers, plus 125,000 Revolutionary Guards, says the International Institute for Strategic Studies. Yet such an imposing host will be...
  • Burma's new capital: a bunker too far? Since 2002, the government has been on an accelerated arms-buying spree. It has upgraded navy and air-force weapons and increased the size of the army - from 180,000 men in 1988 to around 395,000...
  • Simmons Tries To Convince Taiwanese Right now, China is flooding the Taiwan Strait, which separates it from Taiwan, with an unprecedented level of naval construction, including submarine building that far outpaces United States...
  • Chinese build a high-tech army within an army Shangri-La ButtonThe US response to China has shifted as well in the past half year. This spring, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said in Singapore that China's military rise was illegitimate because China faced no...
  • British troops in Iraq to withdraw A British officer with extensive experience of Iraq said: "We are unlikely to up sticks and leave while America is still embroiled. We will maintain a presence alongside the US, albeit after we...
  • U.S. Forces' realignment The transformation is designed to enable the army to be better prepared for small-scale conflicts involving terrorist and guerrilla attacks, rather than conventional full-scale war involving tank...
  • Prince Turki at the Middle East Institute The Arab-Israeli conflict has been an open wound in the Middle East for over five decades. According to figures published last month by the highly respected International Institute of Strategic...
  • Harkat-ul-Mujahideen cadre active The links of Pakistan-based militant outfit Harkat-ul-Mujahideen (HuM), which has been indulging in terrorist activities in Jammu and Kashmir, have been traced to various other countries, including...
  • Failure of the nay-sayers John Chipman, director of London's International Institute for Strategic Studies, noted encouragingly last week: "Those perpetrating violence on either side do not represent the interests of a...
  • Is Iraq worth its price tag? "It is a serious problem and a security challenge for the United States and international community that Iraq has become a magnet for anti-Western, anti-American beliefs. That has to be...
  • War’s fertile grounds for soldiers of fortune Given the cost of defence today, this trend is likely to continue. There just aren’t enough troops available to do everything,” said Christopher Langton, editor of the International...
  • Admirals sink Navy In its Military Balance report published this week, the International Institute for Strategic Studies, based in London, said that it was difficult to make a case any longer for a...
  • Iraq Update: " No peace without victory" Declining public support for the U.S. project in Iraq was also compounded this week by a report from the International Institute for Strategic Studies. The British think-tank indicated a significant...
  • US to retain force in Iraq after Bush goes The US will likely have to retain a sizeable military force in Iraq even after President George W. Bush has left the White House, a leading London-based defence think-tank said on Tuesday. On...
  • US faces long haul in Iraq American and British attempts to combat insurgency in Iraq have failed and US troops will be forced to stay there in large numbers well into the next presidency, a leading international think-tank...
  • Many more years of bloodshed Substantial numbers of American troops will have to stay in Iraq well beyond the end of the Bush presidency, the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies predicted...
  • For rebels, targets are often Iraqis In its annual report on global military might, the London-based think tank said strategists had hoped new technology would let them target enemies accurately from ships and planes, avoiding...
  • Diggers 'suited to fighting insurgents' Australia's soldiers are better placed to combat the tactics of insurgents in Iraq than the US Army, a leading strategic thinktank believes. In its annual report on global military forces, the...
  • Australian Army can deal with insurgents A leading international research body says Australia's military is better designed than the US Army to deal with extremist groups such as Al Qaeda. Western countries have been planning for the...
  • Charter ratified amid Iraq rifts International Institute for Strategic Studies director John Chipman observed that Iraq remains "very unstable" and violent unrest looks set to grow, even if political talks remain the best...