South Asia Security Monitor: No. 289
TAPI takes two steps forward;
Top Sri Lankan general freed from prison;
NATO deciding Afghan fate in Chicago;
India drops charges against Karmapa
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Missile Defense Briefing Report: No. 299
New Russian ICBM is no solution;
Putin looks for assurances on European Defense;
ROK reconsidering limits on missile range;
Updated Aegis system enjoys success;
The airborne laser rises again;
India's missile shield matures
Russia Reform Monitor: No. 1780
More friction over missile defenses in Europe;
A more independent role for the Russian Duma?
Eurasia Security Watch: No. 259
Azerbaijan-Israel ties continue to grow;
Who is poisoning Afghan school children?;
Alleged Israeli spy executed in Iran;
Where in the world is Mohammed Rashid?
Iran Woos Bolivia For Influence In Latin America
One of the most dangerous places in the Western Hemisphere is the city of Warnes, Bolivia, which lies a few kilometers outside the country’s industrial capital of Santa Cruz. There, set back in an open field off a bustling highway, is the new regional defense school of the Bolivarian Alliance of the Americas, or ALBA—the eight-member economic and geopolitical bloc founded by Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez and Cuba’s Fidel Castro nearly a decade ago.