Military

Resurgence of the coup d’état

October 13, 2011

Joshua Kurlantzick, a Fellow for South-East Asia at the Council on Foreign Relations, has an piece in The National on the rise of the coup d’état: Across the developing world, from Thailand to Pakistan, militaries have become more politically powerful in recent years. Indeed, in many Middle Eastern nations, armies will be determining the future [...]

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Quote of the day

July 26, 2011

“The consolidating of Raúl Castro in his position as successor to his brother Fidel confirms that his Cuba will give the military hegemony on a national scale, which makes seemingly impossible any serious political or economic opening in the near future.” Carlos Pérez Llana, former Argentine ambassador to France, in his op-ed “El ejército en Cuba arma nuevo orden,” published [...]

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Regional armed forces

June 9, 2011

Cuba and Venezuela are pushing for the formation of a military academy with a “Latin Americanist doctrine” for ALBA, affirmed Venezuelan foreign minister Nicolas Maduro, who accompanied Hugo Chavez in his trip to Havana this week. [El Universal] ALBA (Bolivarian Alliance of the Americas) was organized by Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez in 2004 as [...]

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Tropical stratocracy

April 20, 2011

Random House Dictionary (2011) defines stratocracy as government by the military. Key military officers control the state security apparatus that vigilantly guards over the Cuban regime. The government’s economic lifeline pulses through the administration of income generating businesses under the control of a military officers. Cuba’s armed forces, through its active and retired military officers, are well [...]

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Threat or Paranoia?

September 3, 2010

The Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), a London-based independent think tank engaged in defense and security research, asks in its analysis of Cuba, how much of a threat does the Communist regime really pose to the world’s only superpower: Raúl’s position as head of the Revolutionary Armed Forces (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias – FAR), who were [...]

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Military Rule 2.0

July 12, 2010

A Council on Foreign Relations fellow and researcher on the increasing power of the military in developing nations in today’s Boston Globe: Call it military rule 2.0. And as a result, in many developing countries the military is more powerful than it has been in years. Thailand, where the military once seemed to have retreated [...]

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