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France Goes It Alone: The Economist
FRANCE’S decision on January 11th to begin air strikes against Islamist rebel positions in northern Mali, designed to prevent “the establishment of a terrorist state” in the African Sahel, contained...
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Nothing New Under The Colonial Sun
While the world looks on, France’s political class has come to an agreement on the principle of military intervention in northern Mali against a coalition of “Islamists,” “jihadists” and extremists....
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Iran’s Long Shadow Over Afghanistan
Iran has positioned itself as an important regional actor in Central Asia and is committed to playing a role in neighboring Afghanistan. As U.S. troops draw down their numbers in Afghanistan,...
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Why Does Suleyman Shah Matter?
Turkish troops swept into Syria this weekend to recover remains from the first Ottoman sultan’s ancestor, who can’t rest in peace 800 years after his death. Read Here – The AtlanticFiled under: Middle...
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Beware Of The ‘Assurance’ Dilemma
The US ‘rebalance’ to the Asia–Pacific has been under way since late 2011. Then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton wrote in October 2011 of a “strategic turn to the region…to secure and sustain...
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How China And Regional Forums Can Help Afghanistan Recover
The security situation in Afghanistan has continued to worsen. The Taliban has been regaining control of areas in northern and southern Afghanistan since 2006, and the group frequently launches...
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Trump’s Plan For Afghanistan: No Timeline For Exit
Trump said he studied Afghanistan in great detail, and that after Friday’s meeting with his national-security team at Camp David, Maryland, he arrived at three conclusions about U.S. interests in...
View ArticleHow Many US Troops in Afghanistan? Pentagon Changes How It Counts Them
If you’d asked Pentagon officials on Wednesday morning, “How many U.S. troops are deployed to Afghanistan?” they’d have told you “about 8,400.” If you ask them now, they’ll tell you “approximately...
View Article‘Ghost Soldiers’: Too Many U.S.-Trained Afghans Are Going AWOL
When Afghan pilots begin training on Black Hawk helicopters at Fort Rucker, Alabama, this year, the U.S. military will have two concerns: that they can fly and that they don’t fly the coop. More than 1...
View ArticleThere’s A Reason They Call It The ‘Forever War’
Combat deployments to the Middle East are not necessary for the security of the United States and only allow regimes in Baghdad, Damascus, and Istanbul to use American troops and assets for their own...
View ArticleWithdrawal From Afghanistan Is Trump’s Gift To Joe Biden
For Biden, the Trump decision was a move he might have made more than ten years ago, when he thought it was his duty to keep a young president from being rolled by the guys with the stars on their...
View ArticleWhy U.S. Troops Are Often Overseas
There are no forever wars, war is forever or at least until such time as U.S. adversaries cease to challenge us or, as Abraham Lincoln suggested, we make friends of them. In America’s present reality...
View ArticleCan Xi And Modi Resolve The Sino-Indian Border Dispute?
The LAC buffer zones have created space between Chinese and Indian troops. However, their rapid border infrastructure projects are raising the risk of future conflict. Read More Here
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