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US Foreign Policy Debate Rages, But Fails to Move the Needle
A series of reports published by Washington-based think tanks populated by former government officials as well as prominent United States scholars has revived debate...
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...
Afghanistan has lessons for the Gulf
The US withdrawal from Afghanistan will likely clarify what the Gulf’s security options are.
Gulf states are likely to monitor how Russia and China handle...
Afghanistan… what next?
Our final withdrawal from Afghanistan on August 31 will perhaps go into the record book as the biggest airlift since Berlin (1948-49). Total evacuated...
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...
Pakistan’s Pyrrhic Victory in Afghanistan: A Response
This piece is a response to Mr. Hussain Haqqani’s article titled “Pakistan’s Pyrrhic Victory in Afghanistan:Islamabad Will Come to Regret Aiding the Taliban’s Resurgence”...
Taliban victory threatens to be a double-edged sword for Pakistan and China
Pakistani efforts to exploit the Taliban victory in Afghanistan threaten to reinforce ultra-conservative inclinations in Pakistan itself, the world’s second-most populous Muslim majority country,...
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...
Afghanistan: The Failure of the Liberal Peace Model
The critics of liberal peace may have another proof that the model, "one size fits all", doesn't work in conflict-prone, failing, fragile or nondemocratic...
Much Deeper Meanings of Afghanistan
“Happy are those who know that behind all speeches are still the unspeakable lies….”-Rainer Maria Rilke, Possibility of Being
Rilke, the Dionysian poet, is generally...