Tag Archive for: "Iraq"
The daesh puzzle: where to next?

Daesh continues to rampage, trumpeting its territorial gains and local tactical successes across the Middle East. How mainstream Islam and the West respond to these gains, will determine whether daesh prospers or is rolled back from …

Sea, air and land updates

Sea State The Friday before last, Defence Minister Kevin Andrews announced that the panel overseeing the competitive evaluation process for Australia’s future submarine project will be headed by Professor Donald Winter—a former secretary of the …

A body count is not a strategy

Last week US Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a French interview that the American-led coalition had recorded more than 10,000 deaths of ISIS combatants since fighting against the group commenced last year. …

Iraq: an avoidable catastrophe?

The unfolding humanitarian and political disaster in Iraq and Syria is ultimately a consequence of confusion, impetuosity, a preoccupation with tactical issues at the expense of strategic ones, and an ignorance of the political, communal, …

Iraq: federation or break-up?

Peter Jennings has recently argued that Australian (and American) ground force personnel, now training elements of the Iraqi army, should accompany them into combat in the future. This change of operational tactics seems necessary following …