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Drones have become a fundamental part of warfare in a very short period of time, but the guidelines on when and how to use them are still hotly contested, even in the heart of the US government, according to Chris Woods
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe made a strong declaration that Japan under his leadership will take a more proactive role in maintaining peace and security in East Asia, and he also vowed to push through the economic reforms that Japan's economy needs to resume a path of growth.
There should be no need to rush into a nuclear deal with Iran to satisfy a self-imposed deadline – the sanctions on Iran are working, and can always be tightened further if Iran does not make acceptable concessions, according to Gérard Araud, the French Ambassador to the US.
Some 22,500 foreign fighters have made their way to Iraq and Syria over the past three years to join ISIS and other terrorist organizations, and concern is growing around the world about the 'backflow' when some of these fighters return home, Ambassador Tom Krajeski told a roundtable lunch…
The Russian annexation of Crimea has precipitated a 'total paradigm shift' in Europe, where countries that had become used to peaceful borders and declining defense budgets have suddenly had to reevaluate their most fundamental assumptions of coexistence, according to Germany's Ambassador to the US, Peter Wittig.
Climate change is a politically controversial issue in the US, but whatever one believes about the causes, the effects are already manifesting themselves, and California is facing some major challenges to its agriculture industry and its coastline property owners, according to Tom Steyer, the billionaire environmental activist, and Henry Cisneros
When you are dealing with a life-and-death situation negotiating for the release of hostages, the phrase you want to hear from the kidnappers is not 'you are right' but 'that is right'.The apparently small semantic difference between those two phrases can mean the difference between a successful outcome and a failure in a hostage situation, but also in any other form of negotiation…
ISIS is a paradox – it is an anti-modernist movement that rejects much of what the rest of the world regards as civilized today, while at the same time it is trying to destroy all signs of civilizations older than Islam – as it most recently attempted with the destruction of artifacts in the 3,000 year-old Assyrian city of Nimrud in northern Iraq.
When Americans see the atrocities carried out in Syria, Iraq, Ukraine and parts of Africa, the instinctive reaction is to do something right away to punish those responsible – to order air strikes, troops on the ground, or at least the imposition of sanctions. However satisfying that might appear to be, the call of justice takes longer to answer – evidence must be collected, perpetrators must be apprehended …
The US and Iran will conclude a nuclear deal soon, largely because there is no reasonable alternative for either party, according to Joseph Cirincione, who runs the nuclear non-proliferation group Ploughshares Foundation, and Valerie Plame, the former CIA undercover agent who tracked Iran's illicit nuclear efforts until she was outed by officials in the Bush administration.
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With his unquenchable optimism about the future, Peter Diamandis, creator of the X Prizes, does not like to be told something is impossible. So when the physicist Stephen Hawking said he would like to fly in zero gravity in a high altitude plane, Diamandis had to fight hard to overcome the objections of the Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) and skeptical medical professionals.
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