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Special Reports

	2010 FLASHPOINTS JDW launches a new series looking at your areas of conflict that are of global strategic importance. Each scenario is assessed and analysed by a regional expert.

Flashpoints: introduction
Jane's Defence Weekly is recognised as one of the world's leading providers of open-source intelligence. We do not predict, but we do have experts who can ...
November 03, 2003
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Indonesia in 2010: a retrospective
Taking a different approach from the past three Flashpoint features, Tim Huxley provides a retrospective assessment of how events in Indonesia may unfold
December 17, 2003
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Pakistani perils
Faisal Khan, a fictitious young Pakistani-born 'volunteer', was unknowingly about to test the fragile Indo-Pakistani relationship and the overall stability of the South Asian subcontinent. He was on his way to fight for yet another violent group that had splintered off from the main Kashmiri militant organisations.
December 01, 2003
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Siberia: the sleeping land?
Though the likelihood of open conflict between Russia and China is remote, rising ethnic tensions and strategic competition for resources could coalesce into a potential crisis.
November 17, 2003
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North Korea: avoiding Armageddon
For Korea, like all global flashpoints, some history helps. Half a century ago, this was where the Cold War first turned 'hot'. Fifty years earlier, the peninsula - 'a shrimp among whales', in a rueful Korean saying - underwent two wars as its larger neighbours sought control.
November 03, 2003
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