Security & Conflict
Gen. Qamar Javed Bajwa, Pakistan’s new Army Chief: Challenge or Opportunity for Afghanistan
S ince the dawn of Pakistan as a nation-state the Army has played a magnificent role in convening the foreign policy objective...
The US Intelligence Community and President-Elect Donald Trump Needs Philip Giraldi
T here’s something to be said for nominating a Central Intelligence Agency (“CIA”) Director who actually knows and understands how to do...
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...