Month: January 2019

New Threats to Central Asia

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Vadym Volokhov In the spring of 2019, we should expect aggravation of the military-political situation on the Tajik-Afghan border, in Tajikistan and in the South-East of Uzbekistan. It is unlikely that the fighting of the ISIS and the Tajik opposition will become large-scale one, since both Tajikistan and Uzbekistan are members of the “Shanghai Cooperation Organization” and of the “Collective Security Treaty Organization”, and the charts of these organizations provide for “strengthening peace, international and regional security, collective defense of independence, territorial integrity and sovereignty of member states”. The potential of member countries is relatively higher than that…

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Ensuring the Country’s Security in the Postmodern World

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Peculiarities of the New National Intelligence Strategy of the United States   Victor Hvozd US leadership continues to thoroughly update a set of basic documents relevant to the country’s national security and defense. In general, this is, so to speak, a usual practice of every American administration. However, as we have noted in previous publications, during the  presidency of D. Trump, the content of such documents is fundamentally different if compared with those adopted by the previous US administration in 2013–2014. This first of all concerns the revision of the adversaries and a clearer definition of the threats to the United States, as well as the USA’s efforts to demonstrate…

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