Security & Conflict
Novel attempts to launch sectarian war in Afghanistan
S ectarian warfare is not a very new issue in the Islamic world because for decades Saudi-Arabia and Iran have had the...
THAAD MAD BAD, Pt III: The True Nature of South China Sea Triangulation
I t is easy to miss the nuanced maneuverings of the other states surrounding the South China Sea because of the giant...
Angela Merkel Do Not Harm Afghans
T he Afghan political and security situations especially in the northern Afghanistan is dramatically deteriorated when ISIS started exodus from eastern parts of...
Strategic Weapons in Wrong Hands
D uring the Indian Premier Narendra Modi’s last trip to Moscow, there was no progress made on the sale of missile defense system...
THAAD, MAD, BAD, part II: Decompiling the South China Sea
The American Backstory T he American positions for the past two years have focused on China’s relatively aggressive and unchallenged construction of seven...
The triadic nexus: Energy factor, national security and foreign policy
“Safety and certainty in oil lie in variety and variety alone” -Winston Churchill T here is a doctrine in classical geopolitics: “Who controls...
International Cyber Security Cooperation
T he rapid development of digital technologies and wide range of services provided for activities in cyberspace raises the issue of cyber security...
THAAD Mad Bad, Part I: US-China Rivalry in the South China Sea
T he Terminal High Altitude Area Defense is a US Army anti-ballistic missile system designed to shoot down short, medium, and long-range ballistic...
The beginning of a new chapter of proxy war in Afghanistan
After the end of the cold war and end of multi-polar world order many strategists and political analyst believed that is to be the...
NATO and Russia in the Baltic and the North Pole
NATO strategic response to Ukraine's annexation by the Russian Federation in March 2014 is currently focused on the forward defense of the Baltic countries,...