Security & Conflict
The Power Schism between Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) & Jamaat ul Ahrar (JuA)
A conspicuous chasm has emerged between the central echelons of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and one of its pivotal factions, Jamaat-ul-Ahrar (JuA), stemming from the...
The World Today: Realism Still Relevant (Security Context)
The various tensions between states in the world, become a momentum to analyze the relevance of international relations theory, including realism. This theory is...
Are Israel’s Objectives in Gaza Attainable?
Sometimes, the only choices available to strategic practitioners are bad options and worse options. Since the attack by Hamas against Israel on 7 October,...
How Did Israeli Intelligence Failures Pave the Way for Hamas’ Strategic Attack
On the dawn of Oct. 7, 2023, Israel, a country celebrated for its intelligence prowess, faced a chilling reality: a meticulously coordinated assault by...
Israel-Hamas Conflict: Decoding Opposing Strategies and Way Ahead?
The asymmetric, irregular, dirty war triggered by the brutal terror attack by Hamas on Israel on October 07, 2023, targeting innocent civilians and children...
International Security Needs Coherence
With military flaps decorated in stripes and stars, the entourage of local and foreign top-ranking officials that descended upon the Moscow Conference on International...
Navigating the Indo Pacific’s Tech Tsunami
Militaries are become technological advanced, especially in the Indo-Pacific region, where China, the United States, India, and, Japan, have consolidated military space activities to...
Can Pakistan’s Embattled Polity Act Against Militant Groups?
Despite claims by the Pakistani military that it has cleared the erstwhile Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) region and other tribal areas in the...
Al-Assad -Xi Jinping: Confronting Turkestan Islamic Party and its relations with ISIS
Perhaps after deep thought on my part about the other hidden reasons, in addition to the declared ones, about the reasons for Syrian President...
Pakistan-Turkey Defense Ties and Policy Options
Pakistan and Turkey, two pivotal countries in the Islamic world, have historically enjoyed close and amicable ties. Their intertwined history is punctuated by mutual...