Security & Conflict
Escalating Big Power Contestation on Taiwan: Can It Lead to War?
Xi Jinping is seeking to hide his humiliation over US Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan. His premature and unjustifiable warning to the US...
With Al Qaeda down but not out, killing Zawahiri is symbolic
President Joe Biden was not wrong when he declared that “justice has been served” with the killing of Al Qaeda leader Ayman Zawahiri in...
The penetration tactics of the CIA and the Israeli Mossad and the Chinese experience
What occupied me the most during the last period after the control of the American Central Intelligence Agency and the Israeli Mossad on a...
The Shangri-La Dialogue in June 2022: Outcomes and the Future
The Shangri-La Dialogue, is a forum for discussion among government ministers and senior officials, as well as business leaders and security experts, on Asia's...
Is ‘NATO-ization’ of Finland the end of ‘Finlandization’ in Europe?
The brutal Russia-Ukraine war threatening to go on for “as long as it takes” is believed to be why Finland and Sweden sought NATO...
India and the Five Eyes. Is the time ripe?
We have witnessed time and again that intelligence deficiencies have extracted exorbitant costs from New Delhi. Be it the 1962 war against China or...
Should Bangladesh Obtain Membership at the Colombo Security Conclave?
The Colombo Security Conclave (CSC) is a maritime security grouping initiated by India, Sri Lanka and the Maldives in 2011. The sixth meeting of national...
Chinese penetration and its destruction of all American spy networks on the Chinese territory
China's National Counterintelligence and Surveillance Networks and the China Foreign Counterespionage Bureau have succeeded in dismantling all US spy networks on all Chinese territory. ...
Defense reform may be the key to US-Saudi relations
Saudi Arabia’s little touted effort to overhaul its defense and national security architecture may be the United States’ best bet to rebuild relations with...
NATO Bracing for a New Security Competition
‘Transformative’ is how NATO’s Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg described the alliance’s 2022 Madrid summit and rightly so. Held soon after the fateful G-7 summit —...