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December 30, 2008

From: DoD News <dodnews@subscriptions.dod.mil>

The Navy’s newest nuclear-powered aircraft carrier George H. W. Bush will be commissioned Saturday, Jan. 10, 2009, during an 11 a.m. EST ceremony at Naval Station Norfolk, Va.

President George W. Bush will deliver the principal address. Dorothy “Doro” Bush Koch, daughter of the ship’s namesake, is the [...]

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Cyprus that is located in Eastern Mediterranean has a great strategic importance for European countries as much as other North Africa and Middle East have. Sovereign states made big wars especially to keep the artery of commerce under control and the island was occupied by so many forces throughout the history. Cyprus that consistently passed [...]

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As Britain prepares to pull its troops out of Iraq, former BBC Baghdad correspondent Andrew North looks back to a previous military campaign and considers whether history is destined to repeat itself?
As the insurgency spread, the letters from the British diplomat in Baghdad grew bleaker.
“We are in the [...]

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Ramday Javed Iqbal (lead)
Alistair Corbett
October 2008

http://www.da.mod.uk/colleges/rcds/CollegeNews/papers/CSI%20Turkey.pdf
 
The Royal College of Defence Studies

RCDS 2008 – CONTEMPORARY STRATEGIC ISSUES

Key Judgements

• Turkey is likely to internally consolidate its democracy, resolve conflict between secularism and political Islam and sustain economic growth. Some tension between democratic forces and secular elite will remain.
 
• The Kurdish problem [...]

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After the collapse of USSR, necessaries of new states were that economic, politic, military and educational relations with each other and other international platforms and countries. On that way all former Soviet countries created Commonwealth of Independence States union. With creation of CIS, these countries which were unificated on old Soviet map will create new [...]

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Truman Doctrine
http://en.wikipedia .org/wiki/ Truman_Doctrine
Carter Doctrine
http://en.wikipedia .org/wiki/ Carter_Doctrine
1980 Turkish coup d’état
http://en.wikipedia .org/wiki/ 1980_Turkish_ coup_d%27% C3%A9tat

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3 Planeloads of Munitions Worry Officials in Baghdad
By Ernesto Londoño
Washington Post Foreign Service
Sunday, November 23, 2008; A01

BAGHDAD — Kurdish officials this fall took delivery of three planeloads of small arms and ammunition imported from Bulgaria, three U.S. military officials said, an acquisition that occurred outside the weapons procurement procedures of Iraq’s [...]

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ANKARA, November 18 (RIA Novosti) - The Russian defense minister warned on Tuesday that Georgia’s military buildup and drive to join NATO could cause a conflict worse than the five-day war over South Ossetia in August.
Russia and Georgia fought a brief war in August after Tbilisi launched an offensive in an attempt to regain control [...]

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Turkey: Blocking Cyprus Cooperation With NATO
November 7, 2008

Turkey on Nov. 6 rejected EU proposals for ways to move forward with a deadlocked plan for Cyprus to participate in NATO-led military operations, Hurriyet reported Nov. 7, citing French Foreign Ministry political director Gerard Araud. Turkey said it is does not oppose cooperation [...]

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Nine Afghan soldiers have been killed and four others hurt in an air strike by international forces in the eastern part of the country, officials say.
Helicopter gunships reportedly fired on an Afghan army post in Khost province.
The US said Afghan soldiers had been killed and injured in a possible case of “mistaken identity”.
Separately, [...]

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