by Paul Hamill | May 5, 2015 | Monitor
This Thursday will see a General Election in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK). All 650 seats in the House of Commons are up for grabs. Over the last 5 years the UK has been governed by a coalition government, made up of two parties that...
by Joshua Walker | Apr 29, 2015 | Monitor
This article is a cross-post from the blog site War on the Rocks Triumphant Modi, divisive Netanyahu, and, most recently, soothing Ghani. Washington has seen an unprecedented flurry of highly anticipated and consequential state visits with more just around the...
by Paul Hamill | Apr 29, 2015 | Monitor
This is a cross-post post from The Hill. It has now been over a year since Vladimir Putin ordered Russian forces to invade sovereign Ukrainian territory, then annexed Crimea. Since that time the Kremlin has continued to support the destabilization of eastern...
by Paul Hamill | Mar 6, 2015 | Monitor
Last week I spoke on a number of panels at a conference in Riga Latvia regarding the future of Iraq and how to fully defeat Daesh (also known as ISIS); while there I also got to see first-hand on what it’s like to be on the front lines of NATO and what the...
by Paul Hamill | Feb 25, 2015 | Monitor
Today we have seen the arrest of three Americans plotting to commit terrorist acts here in the homeland and join Daesh/ ISIS. We also saw earlier this week three young women fly from the UK to Turkey, and now possibly enter Syria to do the same – and join Daesh....