Middle East/Africa

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Iran remains the major focus for procurement and policy in the Middle East; North Africa has defied the global austerity trend to continue its spending spree; hotspot in sub-Saharan Africa remained hot, with the threat of a financially compromised South Africa compounding the potential consequences of the continent’s ability to secure itself.                                                                                                         

2010 also saw the formal end of US combat operations in Iraq, representing a first phase in closing the book on more than eight years of military engagement by the US in an evolving conflict that continues to reverberate, with strategic and tactical implications for Iraq’s neighbours and the international powers involved.

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