NATO, U.S. neglect 'psychological warfare' The United States and its allies must pay more attention to 'psychological warfare' as they battle insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan, an influential think-tank said on Wednesday....
IISS criticizes size of US reinforcements The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in London Wednesday criticized as inadequate the recent US troop reinforcements in Baghdad and accused the Iraqi government of 'lacking the...
Shunning "timeout" , Iran, West face conflict "There is still time for diplomacy to resolve the crisis. Even if Iran begins installing centrifuges in the underground facility, it won't have 3,000 up and running for a year or more at the...
Iran still "2-3 years" from atom bomb Iran is at least two to three years away from being able to produce a nuclear weapon, a leading global think-tank said on Wednesday. But the International Institute for Strategic Studies said...
Iran two to three years from nuclear weapon Iran could be only two or three years away from being able to produce a nuclear weapon, the head of a leading international security think tank in London has said. John Chipman of the...
Iran is 2-3 years away from a nuclear weapon Iran is as little as two to three years away from building an atomic bomb, a leading security think tank reported Wednesday. The estimate given by the International Institute for Strategic...
Strategy Experts Urge US To Use Psychology The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in London Wednesday urged the United States and its military allies to add a "psychological component" to their operations in...
US ‘has lost ability’ to impose global agenda The US risks being pulled into Iraq’s raging sectarian conflict and has lost the ability to impose its global agenda, one of Britain’s leading think tanks said on Wednesday. The...
Troops Need to Battle for Hearts and Minds The International Institute for Strategic Studies, the London-based military and political think-tank, has suggested in its annual report that the United States and its allies need to pay more...
US too weak to implement international agenda Great power relations are in a state of flux due to the US not being strong enough to enforce the international agenda it seeks to impose, according to the International Institute for Strategic...
Iran years from nuclear weapons While Iran could conceivably build a bomb in two years, a three-year time frame was more likely, said Mark Fitzpatrick, a nonproliferation expert at the institute. He said estimates floated by U.S....
Israel's Peretz says 2007 critical year The International Institute for Strategic Studies, a leading global think-tank, said on Wednesday that Iran was at least two to three years away from being able to produce a nuclear weapon.
China's defense budget hides real figure China had an estimated $87.15 billion to spend on defense in 2004 -- more than three times the official government figure, according to a report released in London on Wednesday. Experts at the...
Bold step needed on Middle-East dialogue OVER three days last week, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi reiterated the urgency of solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. First, in his talk at the International Institute...
Interview transcript: Abdullah Ahmad Badawi Quentin Peel, international affairs editor of the Financial Times, interviews the Rt Hon Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, prime minister of Malaysia. The interview was conducted at the International Institute...
Tehran To Ponder UN Offer To Delay Sanctions Iran analyst Mark Fitzpatrick, of the International Institute of Strategic Studies in London, says that in presenting this initiative el-Baradei is using an old diplomatic ploy aimed at bringing some...
West dismissive of call for 'timeout' in Iran Non-proliferation analyst Mark Fitzpatrick, from the London think tank the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), said the key to ElBaradei's approach "would be that the West...
NATO chief calls for better ties with EU Collectively the EU countries spend some 190 billion U.S. dollars on defense every year compared to the U.S. expenditure of 290 billion U.S. dollars, according to figures from theInternational...
Bush defends new policy on Iranians in Iraq Toby Dodge of the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies said the confrontational U.S. tone toward Iran was likely to appeal to many in Congress."This is a way to explain to...
Cracks widen in 'surge' debate Iraqi exiles and Middle East experts also have been dismissive of the new Bush plan. Toby Dodge, a consulting senior fellow for the Middle East at the International Institute for Strategic Studies,...