Much has been made of Russia's poor demographic situation and the problem of a shrinking population has been held up as the reason the country is doomed.
Shahmar Hajiyev, Research Fellow for the Center for Strategic Studies, Azerbaijan
Apr 10, 2013 | 1530 GMT
In ‘The Grand Chessboard’, Zbigniew Brzezinski's 1998 book examining American geostrategic imperatives around the world, the former U.S. National Security Adviser described Azerbaijan as one of the world's "geopolitical pivots" and a key to U.S. security interests.
The current RMA is no spring chicken, argues the ISN’s Peter Faber. It’s cultural and conceptual foundations go back at least 100 years, involves breaking away from a long-standing American Way of War and has been fought over, in terms of its future direction, by brass knuckled bureaucratic factions.
For basketball fans, nothing is better than March Madness where sixty-four college basketball teams line up with a shot to win it all after a series of games played throughout the month of March.
While Georgia's politicians believe that reforming the country's armed forces is essential, they remain divided over what roles civilians should play in national defense. Today, Eugene Kogan outlines the issues surrounding Tbilisi’s military reforms and what Russia thinks about them.
Entering NATO is permanently on Georgia's political agenda and is a hot topic of debate for the country's political parties. However, it seems that the Georgian public's enthusiasm for joining NATO has declined recently.
Since October's parliamentary election in Georgia, the issue of reconstructing the railway line in Abkhazia connecting Georgia with Russia has been the subject of much speculation.
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