A review of the global political and military landscape in 2024

Sunday, December 29, 2024, 14:44 (GMT+7)
In 2024, the global political and military landscape underwent significant changes due to the impacts of various hot spots, conflicts, and strategic competition among major powers, particularly the Russo-Ukrainian conflict, the escalating war in the Middle East, tensions on the Korean Peninsula, and increasing signs of US-China rivalry

Hamas - Israel conflict's multi-dimensional impacts on regional and international security

Friday, February 23, 2024, 09:45 (GMT+7)
According to analysts, the Hamas - Israel conflict not only causes instability in the region, but what is worrying is also that the conflict is deepening the division and hatred between Arabs, Muslims, and Jewish. This is also the core reason why the Middle East will still be the world’s “flash point”, and the peace process has not found a way out.

Risk of widened Eurasian arc of instability

Wednesday, April 28, 2021, 07:55 (GMT+7)
Over the past few years, major powers have escalated competition for expanding influence in part of the Eurasia. Nevertheless, due to the rise of globalisation, strategic competition within a broad space spreading from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean becomes increasingly fierce, which leads to the formation of an arc of instability. In fact, this arc covers a wide geographical area and is divided into subregions, including the Middle East, South Asia, East Asia, Central Asia, East Europe, West Europe, Caucasus, and Arctic.

Ten world defence and military events in 2020

Wednesday, January 06, 2021, 14:13 (GMT+7)
As far as national defence and military is concerned, the Covid-19 pandemic has made a negative, direct, comprehensive impact on military operations as well as the maintenance and enhancement of operational capacity of militaries worldwide. Militaries must undertake any necessary measures, including large-scale distancing regulations, military personnel movement and travel restrictions, change in training methods, delay or cancellation of recruitment and large-scale exercises to prevent and respond to Covid-19 pandemic.

A snapshot of the world politics in 2020

Thursday, December 24, 2020, 09:47 (GMT+7)
The COVID-19 pandemic also reveals major weaknesses of the capitalist economic system in the West, especially in the United States. It is thought after the collapse of the Soviet Union and socialist system, capitalism would be the “Golden Rule” for the rest of the world. However, this assertion has been questioned about its possibility right in the West

Israel and UAE peace agreement and impacts on the political and security landscape in the Middle East

Monday, November 16, 2020, 09:53 (GMT+7)
The peace agreement will create a legal premise for the two countries to officially establish relations and cooperation in the fields of economics, trade and services, especially taking advantage of each other's strengths and advantages to serve economic development of each country.

Turkey's calculations make waves in the Eastern Mediterranean

Wednesday, October 28, 2020, 14:46 (GMT+7)
Not accepting the fact, at the end of 2019, Turkey signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Libyan Government of National Accord (GNA) to delimit maritime zones between the two sides, paving the way for oil and gas exploration activities later. The incident will not be worth discussing if the boundary corridor established by these two countries is not close to Crete Island under Greek sovereignty. Greek leaders said that the Libyan and Turkish agreements violated international law, ignoring the presence of the island of Crete.

Strategic competition between Russia and the U.S. in the Middle East

Friday, May 22, 2020, 07:44 (GMT+7)
In 2015, experts across the globe raised a lot of questions about Russia’s decision on military intervention in Syria. However, in 2019 and especially in the beginning of 2020, the effectiveness of that decision has been proved and Russia’s status in the Middle East has been increasingly raised. That has posed a considerable challenge to the U.S. in the strategic competition in this region

The battlefield of Idlib - the ending of the “mini world war” in Syria

Thursday, April 16, 2020, 14:44 (GMT+7)
Since the end of 2019, with the comprehensive support from Russia and Iran, the Syrian Armed Forces have launched a military campaign to liberate Iblib and annihilate the remnants of terrorist organisations right at their ultimate base. This campaign is of paramount importance to the fate of Syria and the global war on terror

The U.S. Greater Middle East Strategy and its implications

Wednesday, March 18, 2020, 07:11 (GMT+7)
In the national history of America, from the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower (the Cold War) until now, Washington has kept implementing a Strategy for the Greater Middle East in order to comprehensively control this important region. The Strategy has been making impacts on peace, security, and stability of the region and the world as well