Tag: Military

Military aviation has become a global business that transcends strike forces and combat-only platforms. Flexibility in non-military missions such as search and rescue, firefighting...

Although 36th Parallel Assessments is loathe to prognosticate on fluid situations and current events,we have been thinking about how the conflict in Iraq has...

This week the United States' Defence Secretary Leon Panetta visited New Zealand after holding bilateral meetings with the People's Republic of China and Japan. Panetta...

Afghanistan: Beefing Up In Order To Leave Analysis - By Dr Paul G. Buchanan. In the wake of the most recent NZDF deaths in Bamiyan Province,...

Analysis: A different type of BRIC (Australia in comparative perspective). In this installment of the 36th Parallel series of analytic briefs, the focus is on...

Fiji: Selwyn Manning Interviews Coalition For Democracy In Fiji's Nik Naidu on Fiji's Slow Walk Back To Democracy This Week: Selwyn Manning interviews Nik Naidu...

The Pacific Fibre Issue - Has The US Gone Too Far? Analysis - By Selwyn Manning. On Thursday morning Interest.co.nz's Alex Tarrant reported that the Kiwi...

Alleged Canadian Spy Breached Five Eyes Echelon Intelligence http://arntrnassets.mediaspanonline.com/radio/n00/396484/A673_20120725062601268_0.mp3 Major Intelligence Breach: News reports have revealed that a Canadian naval officer has been arrested on security...

Analytic Brief: Managing Policy Fade* From time to time 36th Parallel Assessments offers analytic briefs on subjects of diplomatic, geopolitical and strategic interest. This week’s...

Fiji's Military Regime Deploys More Personnel To UN Ops Than Australia, Canada, New Zealand Combined Dispatch/Forecast - by Selwyn Manning. Since the 2006 Fiji coup Commodore...