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Kashmir Issue at the UNGA and the Nuclear Discourse
The Kashmir issue has more significance in
view of the nuclearization of South Asia as many security
experts around the world consider Kashmir a potential ‘nuclear...
Turkey and the Kurds: What goes around comes around
Turkey, like much of the Middle East, is discovering that what goes
around comes around.
Not only because President Recep Tayyip Erdogan appears to have
miscalculated the...
China’s new military technologies
According
to some international press and media sources, China is investing significant
sums of money in some dual-use technologies - i.e. both civilian and military
at the...
US Strategy after the INF Treaty: Implications and Projected Outcomes
Thirty-one
years ago, US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail
Gorbachev signed the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty placing a
curb on nuclear weapons after...
Big power rivalry in the Gulf requires a US strategy rethink
As French, Pakistani and other leaders seek to engineer a meeting
between the US and Iranian presidents on the sidelines of the United Nations
General Assembly,...
Iran’s Challenge to the U.S Supremacy in the Middle East
The United States as a global superpower
has been maintaining and projecting its military and political supremacy for
decades. The U.S has ensured its military presence...
Saudi oil attacks put US commitments to the test
Neither Saudi Arabia nor the United States is rushing to retaliate for a
brazen, allegedly Iranian attack that severely damaged two of the kingdom’s key
oil...
The drone attacks on Saudi Arabia’s oil wells
In the
early morning of Saturday, September 14 last, at 3.31 and 3.42 a.m., the Yemeni
Houthi Shiite rebels supported by the Iranian "Revolutionary Guards"
- the...
Pakistan’s Skepticism on India’s NFU Policy Stands Validated
The South Asian region is widely regarded
as vulnerable to the threat of nuclear war. This is largely because of the
Kashmir issue’s dangerous potential as...
India Amidst the Follies of a Winnable Nuclear War
As tensions between India and Pakistan simmer
over the deteriorating situation in Kashmir, the ever-present specter of
nuclear war continues to dominate present discourse. This has...