Security & Conflict
Post-Afghanistan intelligence and geopolitics
The troop withdrawal has left Afghanistan in chaos, and the various intelligence agencies (including the Israeli and British ones) assess that geopolitical games are...
The jihad after Afghanistan
How will the jihadists’ global threat evolve after Afghanistan is back under Taliban rule? It should not be forgotten that the Taliban are the...
As Exercise Malabar turns 25, the Quad edge makes it sharper today
The 2021 Malabar naval exercise marks the second consecutive year in which the navies of all the Quad countries are coming together. The annual...
Building the Community of Mankind for Shared Future More Urgent than Ever Before
During the month of August 2021, the global community is witnessing at least four large military exercises with scale and frequency rarely seen in...
Judgment and Prediction: An Assessment on the Warfare in Afghanistan
Researchers at ANBOUND have previously predicted that there could be a scenario where the Taliban in Afghanistan and the Afghan government forming urban-rural confrontation....
Islamic State threat moves online, expands across Africa
Two decades after the 11 September terrorist attacks in New York, terror networks Al-Qaida and Islamic State – also known as Da’esh – continue...
Afghanistan: Taliban versus the USA and allied Brobdingnagians: Bitter truths
The writer is of the view that American guestimates about emerging post-exit scenario have miserably failed. The expectation that the US trained Afghan forces...
Did the United States secretly bomb the Libyan National Army?
BENGHAZI – In July, around the same time when talks in the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum regarding the elections reached a stalemate, a journalist...
Taliban and Al Qaeda: Putting a fox in charge of the chicken coop?
Abu Omar Khorasani was taken from Kabul’s Pul-i-Charkhi prison and unceremoniously shot.
The first and only person to have been executed since the Taliban gained...
The CIA’s Strategic Thinking in Afghanistan: 1979 to 2021
Afghanistan has been a priority area for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) since the 1950s as a result of the growing influence of the...