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  • 16 September 2010 - Oppenhimer Lecture 2010 - HE Mr Paul Kagame On Thursday 16 September 2010 HE Mr Paul Kagame, President of the Republic of Rwanda will deliver the 2010 Oppenheimer Lecture from 12pm.
  • Moscow plays both sides on Nagorno-Karabakh IISS Strategic Comments Banner Russia is striking a new balance in its relations with Armenia and Azerbaijan, which have long been at loggerheads over the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev was in Baku on 2–3 September to meet Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, continuing to promote warmer ties between their countries after a history of diplomatic distance. The visit followed unconfirmed reports of a major sale of Russian arms to Azerbaijan. Meanwhile, Russia and Armenia – traditionally Moscow's cl
  • 03 Sseptember 2010 - - Financial Times - China and US stage Yellow Sea wargames IISS Logo“China’s naval power is growing rapidly. This is something which the US long expected to happen but which has now reached a level where it is clearly felt also by China’s neighbours,” says Gary Li, an expert on the PLA Navy at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London.
  • 03 September 2010 - - Business Daily - Troop withdrawal mere propaganda Military Balance 2010In comparative terms and using the latest figures from the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies, Kenya’s armed forces, that is, the Army, Air Force and Navy, comprise less than half of the US forces that remain in Iraq following the recent reductions. The Economist on Tuesday said the IISS "reckons China now has more warships than America, which long possessed the biggest fleet. As it can be hard to distinguish a warship from other boats, the IISS uses its own definition of what
  • India's Maoist challenge IISS Strategic Comments Banner India's long-running Maoist insurgency has increased in intensity in recent months. In April, 76 paramilitary police were killed by Naxalite guerrillas in a brutal hit-and-run ambush near Chintalnar in Dantewada district in the central state of Chhattisgarh – the largest Naxalite strike in the group's 43-year history. There were further attacks in May and June, including the ambush of a patrol killing 27 policemen, and suspected involvement in a train crash that killed 147. This followed an outbreak of viol
  • 01 September 2010 - - Chosun Ilbo - China 'Has More Warships than U.S.' Military Balance 2010China overtakes the U.S. in the number of warships, a British weekly said, quoting a report by the International Institute for Strategic Studies. The Economist on Tuesday said the IISS "reckons China now has more warships than America, which long possessed the biggest fleet. As it can be hard to distinguish a warship from other boats, the IISS uses its own definition of what counts and what does not."
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