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Stratfor: Defining al Qaeda
The Obama administration's efforts to counter the threat posed by al Qaeda and the wider jihadist movement have been a contentious topic...
Stratfor: Protest movements as political strategy
Recent protests throughout Sudan are the latest in an ongoing trend of protest movements around the world, from Muslim Brotherhood supporters in...
Stratfor: Insurgency and the Protracted War
In recent weeks, insurgent forces in several countries have been forced to withdraw from territories they once held. Somalia's al Shabaab, which...
Stratfor: NATO’s ordinary future
Whatever one thought of the Libya intervention, the details make for a bad advertisement about NATO. As one U.S. Air Force planner...
Stratfor: The state of the world: Germany’s strategy
The idea of Germany having an independent national strategy runs counter to everything that Germany has wanted to be since World War...
Stratfor: Detection points in the terrorist attack cycle
Last week's Security Weekly discussed the fact that terrorism is a tactic used by many different classes of actors and that, while...
Stratfor: Detection points in the terrorist attack cycle
Last week's Security Weekly discussed the fact that terrorism is a tactic used by many different classes of actors and that,...
Stratfor: The state of the world – explaining US strategy
The fall of the Soviet Union ended the European epoch, the period in which European power dominated the world. It left the...
Stratfor: The myth of the end of terrorism
In this week's Geopolitical Weekly, George Friedman discussed the geopolitical cycles that change with each generation. Frequently, especially in recent years, those...
Stratfor: The State of the World – A Framework
Editor's Note: This is the first installment of a new series on the national strategies of today's global power and other regional...
Stratfor: Disparity in the covert war between Iran and the West
Within thirty minutes of each other on Monday, a "sticky bomb" attached to the back of a van detonated in New Delhi,...
Stratfor Special Report – Hamas In Transition
After more than five years of existing in political stalemate, Hamas is now trying to manage a worsening relationship with Iran and...
Stratfor: Egypt looks to rein in NGOs
Egypt provided the formal charges against 43 members of nongovernmental organisations (NGOs), including 19 Americans, and their organisations. Among the charges were...
Stratfor: Iran’s Deterrence Strategy in the Strait of Hormuz
Iranian naval exercises scheduled for February underscore a strategy that is both political and military: To deter an attack, Iran must enhance...
Stratfor: Afghanistan – moving toward a distant endgame
US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta suggested last week that the United States could wrap up combat operations in Afghanistan by the end...
China and Russia act to block a new precedent for intervention
China and Russia vetoed a resolution on Syria this weekend that the United States and others had introduced at the UN Security...
Stratfor: Russia and the United States – pushing tensions to the...
As Russia and the United States prepare for their respective presidential elections, tensions between the countries are growing. The central point of...
Stratfor: The Tuaregs – from African nomads to smugglers and mercenaries
The Tuaregs, a nomadic tribe in North and West Africa, dominated the caravan trade through the Sahara Desert for thousands of years....
Stratfor: Mali besieged by fighters fleeing Libya
Mali has experienced perhaps the most significant external repercussions from the downfall of the regime of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi. Stratfor has...
Stratfor: The challenging politics of UAVs in Southwest Asia
US President Barack Obama on Monday publicly acknowledged that the CIA has been conducting unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) strikes in Pakistan's tribal...
Stratfor: Syrian regime may survive, but with reduced clout
A day after the Arab League announced that it is suspending its monitoring mission in Syria, Syrian activists continued their claims that...
Stratfor: Germany’s role in Europe and the European debt crisis
The German government proposed last week that a European commissioner be appointed to supplant the Greek government. While phrasing the German proposal...
Stratfor: Nigeria’s Boko Haram militants remain a regional threat
The Nigerian militant group Boko Haram conducted a series of bombing attacks and armed assaults Jan. 20 in the northern city of...
Stratfor: Arab Uprising, One Year Later
Wednesday marked the first anniversary of the first day of public unrest in Egypt, which led to former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's...
Stratfor: A Hezbollah Threat in Thailand?
On Jan. 12, Thai authorities arrested a man they say was a member of the Lebanon-based Shiite militant group Hezbollah who...
Stratfor: Iran, the US and the Strait of Hormuz crisis
The United States reportedly sent a letter to Iran via multiple intermediaries last week warning Tehran that any attempt to close the...
Stratfor: Armed UAV operations 10 years on
One of the most iconic images of the American-led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan -- as well as global U.S. counterterrorism efforts...
The Hack on Stratfor
In early December I received a call from Fred Burton, Stratfor's Vice President of Intelligence. He told me he had received information...
Stratfor: Turkey’s limited options for projecting power in North Africa
Mustafa Abdel-Jalil, the head of Libya's National Transitional Council (NTC), said in an interview published in Turkish media last month that Turkey...
Stratfor: Egypt and the Idealist-Realist Debate in U.S. Foreign Policy
The first round of Egyptian parliamentary elections has taken place, and the winners were two Islamist parties. The Islamists themselves are split...
Stratfor: Pakistan, Russia and the threat to the Afghan war
Days after the Pakistanis closed their borders to the passage of fuel and supplies for the NATO-led war effort in Afghanistan, for...
Stratfor: Syria, Iran and the Balance of Power in the Middle...
U.S. troops are in the process of completing their withdrawal from Iraq by the end-of-2011 deadline. We are now moving toward a...
Stratfor: Europe’s crisis – beyond finance
Everyone is wondering about the next disaster to befall Europe. Italy is one focus; Spain is also a possibility. But these crises...
Stratfor: Europe, the international system and a generational shift
Change in the international system comes in large and small doses, but fundamental patterns generally stay consistent. From 1500 to 1991, for...
Stratfor: Dissecting a Mexican cartel bombing in Monterrey
Early Oct. 20, a small sedan apparently filled with cartel gunmen rapidly pulled in front of a military vehicle, drawing the military...
Stratfor: Libya – the difficult task ahead
On Oct. 23, three days after the fall of Moammar Gadhafi's last outpost, the National Transitional Council (NTC) officially declared the liberation...
Stratfor: Libya and Iraq: The Price of Success
In a week when the European crisis continued building, the White House chose publicly to focus on announcements about the end of...
Stratfor: Reflections on the Iranian assassination plot
On Oct. 11, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that two men had been charged in New York with taking part in...
Stratfor: From the Mediterranean to the Hindu Kush – rethinking the...
The territory between the Mediterranean and the Hindu Kush has been the main arena for the U.S. intervention that followed the 9/11...
Stratfor: Growing concern over the NYPD’s counterterrorism methods
In response to the 9/11 attacks, the New York Police Department (NYPD) established its own Counter-Terrorism Bureau and revamped its Intelligence Division....
Stratfor geopolitical journey: riots in Cairo
The last time I visited Cairo, prior to the ouster of then-Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, a feeling of helplessness pervaded the streets....
Stratfor: Yemen – Fallout from the al-Awlaki airstrike
U.S.-born Yemeni cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, an ideologue and spokesman for al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), al Qaeda's franchise in Yemen,...
Stratfor: European crisis – precise solutions in an imprecise reality
An important disconnect over the discussion of the future of the European Union exists, one that divides into three parts. First, there...
Stratfor: Cutting through the lone-wolf hype
Lone wolf. The mere mention of the phrase invokes a sense of fear and dread. It conjures up images of an unknown,...
Stratfor: Obama’s dilemma: US foreign policy and electoral realities
STRATFOR does not normally involve itself in domestic American politics. Our focus is on international affairs, and American politics, like politics everywhere,...
Stratfor: the crisis of Europe and European nationalism
When I visited Europe in 2008 and before, the idea that Europe was not going to emerge as one united political entity...
The Geopolitics of the United States
Like nearly all of the peoples of North and South America, most Americans are not originally from the territory that became the...
Stratfor: 9/11 and the successful war
It has been 10 years since 9/11, and all of us who write about such things for a living are writing about...
Stratfor: Why al-Qaeda is unlikely to execute another 9/11
It is Sept. 1, and that means we are once again approaching the anniversary of al Qaeda's Sept. 11, 2001, attacks against...
Stratfor: Libya: a premature victory celebration
The war in Libya is over. More precisely, governments and media have decided that the war is over, despite the fact...