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31 December 2017

Top Conflicts to Watch in 2018

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Top Conflicts to Watch in 2018 -- Maj gen P K mallick,VSM (Retd) Center of Preventive Action of Council on Foreign Relation has iden...

Reds on the Tracks

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Source Link Ajit Kumar Singh In the night of December 19, 2017, at around 11 pm, an armed squad of about 15 Communist Party of India-...

Pakistan’s risky experiment of mainstreaming extremism

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Source Link BY Sameer Patil As Pakistan prepares for general elections, its Army is working to bring terrorist and radical religious...

In Tangled Afghan War, a Thin Line of Defense Against ISIS

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Source Link   By Mujib Mashal KHOGYANI, Afghanistan — When the American military dropped the largest bomb in its arsenal on an...

Sharp Words From the United States Will Achieve Little in Pakistan

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Source Link By Umair Jamal It’s time for the United States to take note of some realities in Pakistan.  U.S. Vice Presiden...

China, Pak to look at including Afghanistan in $57bn economic corridor

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Source Link China and Pakistan will look at extending their $57 billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor to Afghanistan, Chinese Forei...

Trade And Terror: The Impact Of Terrorism On Developing Countries

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Source Link by Subhayu Bandyopadhyay , Javed Younas Economists Walter Enders and Todd Sandler defined terrorism as the premeditated ...

BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR: LEGACIES, REALIGNMENTS, AND RUSSIA’S EVOLVING ROLE IN SOUTH ASIA

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Source Link OLGA OLIKER Russia rarely comes up when Western analysts talk about Southern Asia. Sure, there was that war in Afghani...

ENTRY 10: WRITING IN THE MIDDLE OF A POLARIZING CRISIS

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Source Link VAN JACKSON It’s getting harder to sustain a reasonable discourse about North Korea. The political left keeps resort...

When China woos, it usually wins

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Source Link PARAN BALAKRISHNAN The president of Maldives, Abdulla Yameen, couldn’t have asked for anything more from his Beijing vis...

Eye on China — 22/12/2017

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Source Link Ni hao! Welcome to Eye on China, a weekly bulletin offering news and analysis related to the Middle Kingdom. I. The L...

Visualizing 2018: The Essential Graphics

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Source Link From North Korea’s nuclear tests to global refugee flows, the rise or fall in numbers signals where the world may be heade...

Balkans in 2017: Two Cheers for the Economy

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Source Link Balkan economies made real progress in 2017 but media freedom ebbed in some countries, and the region remained hostage to ...

Views from the capitals: European dreams for 2018

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Source Link The EU has seemingly survived the existential crises of the Brexit vote, the ascent of Donald Trump, and the rise of the...

Power on the Periphery of Europe

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Source Link By Antonia Colibasanu British Prime Minister Theresa May visited Warsaw to sign a new defense treaty between Britain and...

America is on the brink of a historic break with Europe, thanks to Trump

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Source Link   Foreign service officers like me saw ourselves as guardians of this vital alliance. But Trump isn't interested in l...

Seeing through a glass darkly

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Source Link M.K. Narayanan To deal with the terror threat, there must be far greater sharing of intelligence among agencies worldwid...

World's Wealthiest Became $1 Trillion Richer in 2017

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Source Link Tom Metcalf and  Jack Witzig  The richest people on earth became $1 trillion richer in 2017, more than four times last...

2 big warnings from Gen. McChrystal: War in Europe is possible & we’re going to have to give up rights for our security

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Source Link BY THOMAS E. RICKS After eight years at Foreign Policy, here are the ten most popular Best Defense posts. U.S. Army G...

Cyberattack Targets Safety System at Saudi Aramco

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Source Link BY ELIAS GROLL Malicious software attacked a safety system in August at Saudi Aramco, the world’s largest oil company,...

PORT AUTOMATION AND CYBER RISK IN THE SHIPPING INDUSTRY

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Source Link   By Philipp Martin Dingeldey  Introduction To stay ahead of competing ports and technological developments, automa...

Russia is pushing the Army to move faster on electronic warfare

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Source Link By: Mark Pomerleau  The Electronic Warfare Planning and Management Tool is a command-and-control planning capability...

Air Force wants cyber to have impact, tools measuring how hard it can hit

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Source Link By: Mark Pomerleau   The effects of kinetic weapons, such as hand grenades, are widely understood. For nonkinetic effec...

How Should International Law Treat Cyberattacks like WannaCry?

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Source Link   By Michael J. Adams, Megan Reiss North Korea was behind the infamous WannaCry cyberattack , asserted homeland security...

What three of the year’s biggest defense stories looked like from space

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Source Link   By: Mike Gruss The news in the defense community in 2017 largely revolved around three international conflicts: North ...

A New History of the Second World War

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Source Link By Joshua Rothman In 1936, Charles Lindbergh arrived in Berlin to inspect the Luftwaffe. The visit had been arranged by...
30 December 2017

The Future of Conflict for Next Five Years

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The Future of Conflict for Next Five Years -- Maj Gen P K Mallick,VSM (Retd) John E. McLaughlin was Deputy Director and Acting Dir...

India to become fifth largest economy in 2018, says report

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Source Link Currently ranked seventh, India will move up to fifth place in 2018 and vault to third spot by 2032, the Centre for Econom...

The Paradox of Indian Military Innovation

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Source Link Anirudh Kanisetti What explains the Great Divergence between Indian and foreign military powers? Inthe 10th and 11th...

New Extremist Religious Groups Are Wrecking Pakistan

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Source Link Abdul Basit Religious politics in Pakistan has moved away from pan-Islamism to narrow sectarianism with the entry of new...

South Asia is not the most dangerous place on Earth

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Source Link Ramamurti Rajaraman Nuclear weapons are arguably among the most dangerous inventions of man. The scale and rapidity of t...

In Tangled Afghan War, a Thin Line of Defense Against ISIS

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Mujib Mashal New York Times  KHOGYANI, Afghanistan — When the American military dropped the largest bomb in its arsenal on an Islam...

Diverging Trajectories in Bangladesh: Islamic State vs al-Qaeda

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Source Link By: Nathaniel Barr Al-Qaeda and Islamic State have adopted divergent strategies in their competition for dominance in Ban...

Staying Power Mao and the Maoists.

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Source Link   By Pankaj Mishra “Arevolution is not a dinner party,” Mao Zedong declared. Rather, as he helpfully clarified in 1927,...

At an Air Show in China, Drones, Not Jets, Are the Stars

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Source Link By Lam Yik Fei  WUHAN, China — Need more evidence that China is a global force in technology? Just listen for the low ...