Author: Bushmaster
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Military alliances of the United States
The United States is currently the most powerful country in the world, and the most influential in global politics. Part of this influence is exerted through the US’ network of alliances, which covers much of the globe. The many allies of the US both provide the US with support in conflicts, deterrence and power projection,…
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An end to the war in Ukraine?
As the invasion phase of the Russo-Ukrainian war enters its fourth year, there is a growing popular and political demand to find some way to resolve the conflict in all countries directly or indirectly involved. With the election and inauguration of US president Trump it seems more likely than before that some sort of ceasefire…
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Norden og Russland
Russlands invasjon av Ukraina i 2022 skapte tvil i vesten rundt hvorvidt de europeiske NATO-landene kunne forsvart seg selv i tilfelle en konvensjonell krig med Russland skulle bryte ut. Før den russiske invasjonen var dette et helt hypotetisk spørsmål, der den vanlige antagelsen var at Russland ville bruke sin fryktede «hybridkrigføring» til å destabilisere europeiske…
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Who must go?
Bashar al-Assad’s Syrian regime just collapsed. After 24 years in power and 13 years of civil war, Assad would fall to an opposition offensive that lasted just 11 days. The opposition advances were so fast that they have forced me to do rewrites on most of the article, with Damascus falling before I was able…
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The regime’s greatest protector and greatest threat: military policy in Tajikistan
Every state needs an army, and Tajikistan is no different. In Tajikistan, the army is made up of multiple military and paramilitary branches, which all serve to protect the dictatorial regime of Emomali Rahmon from internal and external threat. This army js Rahmon’s most important tool to keep power, but also the seems to be…
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One year of war in Sudan
On the 15th of April 2023 a new war broke out in Sudan. Sudan’s largest paramilitary group, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), initiated attacks against their supposed allies in the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) in nearly every major city across Sudan in what appeared to be some sort of an attempted coup. What started with…
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The Tatmadaw is falling
On the morning of February 1st, 2021, Myanmar experienced its third military coup since independence. The already influential military, known as the Tatmadaw (Royal Army) was displeased with its results in the 2020 election and decided to end the fragile democratic system that had been heading the country since 2011.[1] All civilian control of the…
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Armenia freezes membership in the CSTO. Why, and what does it mean?
On February 22nd the prime minister of Armenia, Nikol Pashinyan, announced that Armenia would freeze its membership in the Collective Security Treaty Organization, the Russian-led military alliance.[1] The future of Armenian membership in the alliance is uncertain. The decision to freeze Armenian membership comes in the wake of increased Azerbaijani pressure, improved Armenia-NATO relations,…
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Tajikistan, the model dictatorship
Tajikistan is not a country often discussed by international media. It is a poor post-soviet state without much to make it stick out. It does not have the economic miracles and close relations with the west of the Baltics, nor the natural gas wealth of western Central Asia, nor has it been assaulted by Russia…
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Iran’s international influence
In the background of the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas there have been increasingly escalating tensions between the United States on one hand and a series of “Iranian proxies” on the other, chiefly the Ansar Allah party in Yemen (commonly known by the name of the group from which many of their members originate,…