Tag Archives: Qatar

Understanding the Israeli-Egyptian-Saudi alliance

Posted on August 24, 2014 by ArchitectGuy

JERUSALEM POST by Caroline Glick August 21, 2014 Hamas’s war with Israel is not a stand-alone event. It is happening in the context of the vast changes that are casting asunder old patterns of behavior and strategic understandings as actors … Continue reading →

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Where are You Going, President Obama?

Posted on August 7, 2014 by ArchitectGuy

BEGIN-SADAT CENTER FOR STRATEGIC STUDIES by Prof. Shmuel Sandler August 5, 2014 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: American interventions in the Gaza conflict have been puzzling. The Obama administration chose to support the Hamas-friendly Turkish-Qatari ceasefire proposal and failed to recognize the emerging … Continue reading →

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US-Qatar Alliance: Under Strain?

Posted on August 4, 2014 by ArchitectGuy

FOUNDATION FOR DEFENSE OF DEMOCRACIES by David Andrew Weinberg August 4, 2014 Qatar, a tiny Persian Gulf petropower, is known to exert outsized influence in the Middle East. But between the war in Syria and the most recent conflict in … Continue reading →

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How the Taliban got their hands on modern US missiles

Posted on June 9, 2014 by ArchitectGuy

NEW YORK POST By Kenneth R. Timmerman June 8, 2014 The Obama administration isn’t only giving the Taliban back its commanders — it’s giving them weapons. Miliary records and sources reveal that on July 25, 2012, Taliban fighters in Kunar … Continue reading →

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Foundation for Defense of Democracies conference focuses on our “frenemies”

Posted on May 5, 2014 by ArchitectGuy

Last week I was in DC for the two-day Foundation for Defense of Democracy conference. For such a young organization their range of accomplishments is very impressive. FDD analysts are tops in their fields and testify regularly before Congress, are consulted by the White … Continue reading →

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