by Matt Freear | Jun 13, 2013 | Monitor
This October sees the twentieth anniversary of events that came to be known as Black Hawk Down, in which eighteen US military personnel and hundreds of Somalis died. Over a thousand Somalis were injured, hundreds of them civilians, though estimates vary greatly. It so...
by Chris Smith | Jun 6, 2013 | Monitor
Earlier this week in a post in Flashpoints Blog I argued while chemical weapons are a major national security concern, the possible manufacturing of sarin by non-state actors should be given special consideration. The manufacturing of sarin represents a unique threat...
by Chris Smith | Jun 5, 2013 | Monitor
There is an increasing concern today about the chance that Syria’s chemical stocks could fall into the hands to non-state actors as the civil war there continues. Possibilities as worrying as future attacks on military forces to terror attacks against neighboring...
by Ollie Engebretson | Jun 4, 2013 | Monitor
Could insurance play a vital role in US foreign development strategies? A report recently released by The Zurich Insurance Group, “The role of insurance in the Middle East and North Africa,” at the World Economic Forum held in Jordan highlights the potential for...
by Joshua Foust | Nov 28, 2012 | Monitor
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov addresses the 67th session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York on September 28, 2012. (Keith Bedford/Reuters) Cross-posted from Joshua Foust’s regular column in The Atlantic. … at least...
