Contents 1 Syria – Back Story 2 The Planning 3 The Attack 4 A Strategic View 1 Syria Reasons why Syria was attacked in 2011 To understand the current conflict in Syria, it would be best to go over some background. The US entered the Middle East after the end of the Second World War. […]
That’s the words on everybody’s lips these days. It’s a study in geopolitics. To better understand the present, we shall do a bit of background. Qatar gained independence from Britain in 1971. Britain was withdrawing from most of its overseas possessions due to financial pressure. It’s a very small country ruled by the Al Thani […]
Initially, Saudi Arabia supplied the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) with money only. After 1954, when Nasser cracked down on the MB, Saudi Arabia provided an important refuge for the MB, and many of its members flocked to the kingdom. This migration occurred just as the US was giving up on Nasser and turning to Saudi Arabia. The […]
The Beginning: How Britain begat the Brotherhood Jamal Eddine al-Afghani In 1885, an Iranian proposed the idea of a British-led pan-Islamic alliance among Turkey, Egypt, Iran and Afghanistan against czarist Russia. It was the era of the Great Game, the long-running geopolitical struggle between Britain and Russia for control of Central Asia. The biggest land grab […]
The downing of the Russian plane in mid-November over the Sinai Peninsula was a targeted hit. It was aimed at two countries – Russia and Egypt. We can understand Russia; but why Egypt? To better understand the dynamics of Egypt, let’s do a brief background on the country. Egypt Egypt has always given the world […]
The name “Arab Spring” is a term coined in distant offices in Washington, London, and Paris. The upheavals in the Arab World are not an Arab awakening either; such a term implies that the Arabs have been sleeping while injustice has been surrounding them. In reality the Arab world has been filled with wars and […]
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