... Current History. All rights reserved. 2014 The Regents of the University of California Michael Boyle drone UAV unmanned aerial vehicle effectiveness civilian casualty casualties Afghanistan Pakistan Al Qaeda tactic strategy tactical strategic Obama administration policy strike...

... strategic pivot 270 Even as the Obama administration has pivoted toward the Asia-Pacific region, so has the Kremlin. . . . Moscow on the Pacific: The Missing Piece in the Pivot to Asia DMitri trenin Observers who have discounted Russia s importance in the Asia-Pacific region in the two decades since...

...Hugh De Santis America's expanding military footprint in Asia may be more of a provocation than a deterrent to China's aggressive behavior. Hugh De Santis China Asia Pacific strategic pivot Trans-Pacific Partnership trade military South China Sea containment Obama 209 America...

.... The Fate of India s Strategic Restraint sunil dasgupTa In February 2012, India selected a French jet, the Rafale, as the new mainstay fighter for its air force. A month earlier, the country had leased a nuclear submarine from Russia. The ac- quisition of the fighter aircraft and submarine is part...

... Colton Russia Vladimir Putin Dmitri Medvedev United Russia Gennadi Zyuganov Agency Strategic Initiatives Vladimir Zhirinovsky All-Russian Popular Front Mikhail Prokhorov 259 Russia s uncensored media, including its huge Runet (Russian-language internet space) and blogosphere...

...-sector governance India Kashmir nuclear weapons Jehangir Karamat Pervez Musharraf Strategic Plans Division 136 The military will never stay in the barracks until other institutions have devel- oped enough credibility to counter the army s. Pakistan s Security-Governance Challenge c...

...Michael Wesley Tensions between Australia's strategic alignment and its economic alignment … heighten Canberra's anxieties about having to choose between security and prosperity in the event of a confrontation between the United States and China. © 2010 by the Regents of the University...

... Shalendra Sharma China India Chindia Pakistan resources border disputes Jairam Ramesh Strategic Cooperative Partnership Peace Prosperity Rajiv Gandhi 252 Although Sino-Indian relations have greatly improved over the past decade, . . . [u]nresolved territorial disputes, China s...