Author Archives: Danny Brode

About Danny Brode

Employed as an Intelligence Analyst with Max-Security Solutions, a geopolitical risk-consulting firm based in Israel. Articles have been published in The New York Times, Jerusalem Post, Middle East Online, Arutz Sheva, and the Jewish Chronicle. The author is an extensive and passionate researcher of international security issues, with a special interest on conflicts in the Middle East, North & South Caucasus, and North Africa. Interested in discussing all Middle East and peripheral conflicts, ranging from; Baluchi separatism in Iran, tribal conflict in the Maghreb, to the conflict between Israel and regional Muslim states. Currently living in Tel-Aviv, Israel. Received an B.A. from Duquesne University in History and a Minor in German. Studied for several years at the Virginia Military Institute, University of the German Federal Armed Forces Hamburg, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Graduated with a M.A. in Security & Diplomacy from Tel-Aviv University. Interned as a research analyst at the Institute for National Security Studies in the Military and Strategic Affairs Program and represented Tel-Aviv University in the Wikistrat International Grand Strategy Competition.

Curbing the Rise of Kurdistan

  While a billion watched the festive display of internationalism and multiculturalism at the Olympic opening ceremony in London; the reality was much different in the Middle East, where one of the region’s oldest conflicts threatened to erupt into all-out-war. … Continue reading

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The Rise of the Shabiha

(From News Maker Today) By: Daniel Brode In late May, Alawitee men reportedly swarmed the Sunni villages of Taldou and al-Shoumarieh following heavy shelling from the Syrian military. Going house by house into the night, the men killed and pillaged everything … Continue reading

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Save Syria’s Christians (Published in NY TIMES)

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/29/opinion/syrias-threatened-christians.html?_r=2Muzaffar Salman/Associated Press

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Save Syria’s Christians (Published in NY TIMES)

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/29/opinion/syrias-threatened-christians.html?_r=2Muzaffar Salman/Associated Press

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Is a Kurdish State on the Horizon?

While the media is focused on Iranian nuclear talks, the war in Syria, and the elections in Egypt, Iraqi Kurdistan (KRG) is making headway in severing Baghdad’s grip over its national ambitions, chiefly the establishment of an independent Kurdish state. … Continue reading

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