http://jayshah.net This blog will have everything that excites me. Tue, 20 Dec 2011 21:52:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en By C J Burton He knew his audience. In August, Texas Governor Rick Perry convened the Response, a seven-hour prayer rally in Houston. In his drawling sermon, Perry quoted Isaiah and Ephesians. Invoking the prophet Joel, however, drew perhaps the most emotional reaction from his listeners. "Blow the trumpet ... http://jayshah.net/archives/375 The militant wing of Hamas, the Izz al-Deen al-Qassam Brigades, called off a de facto cease-fire with Israel on Aug. 19.   The group called on “all factions to respond to the Israeli occupation’s crimes.” Earlier on Aug. 19, the militant ... http://jayshah.net/archives/374 This following article is based on the book “Arming without Aiming: India’s Military Modernization” by Sunil Dasgupta and Stephen Cohen. During his visit to India last year, Obama announced that the United States would sell $5 billion worth of U.S. military equipment to India, including ten Boeing C-17 military transport ... http://jayshah.net/archives/373   Israel is a small country, demographically outnumbered by its neighbors and thus unable to field an army large enough to sustain long, high-intensity conflicts on multiple fronts. Israeli national security therefore revolves around a core, strategic need to sufficiently neutralize and divide its Arab neighbors so ... http://jayshah.net/archives/372 With political unrest spreading across the Middle East and North Africa, 2011 might turn out to be as momentous a year for the global geopolitics of oil as was 1971. Many of the factors behind the current protests -- high unemployment, large income disparities, rising costs of living (especially for ... http://jayshah.net/archives/371 Although opening a regional branch and acquiring franchises has reinforced the position of al Qaeda and its ability to present itself as both the senior and the most capable Islamist militant group, it approaches new mergers warily. Al Qaeda learned a lesson about overreach in 2006, when it ... http://jayshah.net/archives/370 Despite nearly a decade of war, al Qaeda is stronger today than when it carried out the 9/11 attacks. Before 2001, its history was checkered with mostly failed attempts to fulfill its most enduring goal: the unification of other militant Islamist groups under its strategic leadership. However, since fleeing ... http://jayshah.net/archives/369 The events in Egypt have sent shock waves through Israel. The 1978 Camp David Accords between Egypt and Israel have been the bedrock of Israeli national security.   In three of the four wars Israel fought before the accords, a catastrophic outcome for Israel was conceivable. In 1948, ... http://jayshah.net/archives/368 BETWEEN EUPHORIA AND REALITY: EGYPT   On Feb. 11, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak resigned. A military council was named to govern in his place. On Feb. 11-12, the crowds that had gathered in Tahrir Square celebrated Mubarak’s fall and the triumph of democracy in Egypt. On ... http://jayshah.net/archives/367  Geopolitical Analysis of Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao’s visit to India Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, a massive diplomatic entourage and a business delegation representing 100 firms visited India on December 15th for a three-day visit. Wen began the visit by addressing concerns over the growing Sino-Indian rivalry, proclaiming that there need be ... http://jayshah.net/archives/366