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1 December 2018

A First: Leaders of US, Japan, India to Meet on 2018 G20 Sidelines for Trilateral

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By Ankit Panda Source Link U.S. President Donald J. Trump, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, and Indian Prime Minister Narendra ...

India Struggles to Compete With China’s Digital Silk Road

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By Chan Jia Hao and Deepakshi Rawat Source Link The concept of digital connectivity in the Belt and Road Initiative in the last fe...

India’s smartphone revolution is a phenomenon on the scale of Independence in 1947

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NITIN PAI  Source Link Media headlines reporting research results often distort findings — substituting ‘newsworthiness’ for accurac...

Why Balochs Are Targeting China

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By Muhammad Akbar Notezai Source Link Over the years, China-Pakistan relations have evolved positively. The mainstream media of th...

Dismantling Pakistan’s Tribal Areas

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By Farid Alam Source Link On May 31, 2018, Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal Areas, or FATA, formally ceased to exist. Home t...

The Taliban’s Battle Plan

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By Michael Semple Source Link Zalmay Khalilzad, the United States’ envoy for Afghan reconciliation, has breathed new life into attem...

A Pivotal Year Ahead for Afghanistan

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By Omar Samad Source Link Even as another turbulent year draws to a close in Afghanistan, 2019 could end up becoming a pivotal one...

India will stay relevant in Afghanistan, Taliban or no Taliban

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By Pranay Kotasthane Source Link The action is fast and furious. Taliban representatives have attended peace talks in Moscow for t...

Russia's Relationship With China Will Change Northeast Asia

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Source Link by Lyle J. Goldstein The many naysayers on the China-Russia partnership may want to take another look at this. For d...

After Election, Taiwan’s Grand Strategy Is in Doubt

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Source Link by Charles I-hsin Chen If the best reason to explain President Tsai Ing-wen’s landslide victory in the 2016 Taiwan ele...

A Possible Upside to the US-China Trade War

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By Yigal Chazan Source Link With the world braced for further escalations in the U.S.-China trade war, Southeast Asian economies a...

Operation Red Sea: The Chinese Public's Introduction to Beijing's New Navy

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By Robert Farley Source Link Although it largely escaped the notice of American audiences, Dante Lam’s Operation Red Sea served t...

3 Reasons Why Trump Can't Win a Trade War With China

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By Fatih Oktay Source Link Both the rhetoric and actions of the Trump administration point to the rising probability of an economic ...

Google employees sign letter against censored search engine for China

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Julia Carrie Wong  Source Link A woman carries a fire extinguisher past the logo for Google at the China International Import Exp...

Why Putin Is Pressuring Ukraine

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Source Link by Nikolas K. Gvosdev In salons and seminars in Washington, Russia (and China) is routinely described as a “revision...

Elections Staged in Ukraine’s East Under Russian Control

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By: Vladimir Socor Source Link Kremlin-orchestrated, internationally unrecognized “elections” were held on November 11 in the Donets...

U.S. Setting Up Observation Posts in Syria to Keep ISIS From Entering Turkey

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Terri Moon Cronk Source Link U.S. forces are establishing observation posts in Northeast Syria to further deny escape routes to the ...

America’s Forgotten War in Syria Isn’t Stopping

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by Adam Taylor  The United States is fighting a war in Syria. It’s a quiet war with debatable legal standing, but it is a real war non...

U.K. Relationship With U.S., Role in Global Defense Unlikely to Change After Brexit

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By: John Grady Source Link Sailors assigned to the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77) watch as the Royal Navy aircraft ...

Countering Terrorism Online: Can New Public-Private Approaches Turn the Tide?

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By: Alicia Chavy Source Link A YouTube search for “Anwar al-Awlaki” returns 40,000 hits. [i] The poster child for the use of the in...

WAR BOOKS: BUILDING A COUNTERINSURGENCY LIBRARY

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Max Brooks Source Link Editor’s note: MWI Non-Resident Fellow has gathered a broad collection of books that, together, help to conce...

Russia’s Middle Eastern Position in 2025

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By Stephen Blank Source Link Summary Through 2025, Russia will continue to enjoy the prominence it now possesses in the Middle E...

Vice President Pence in Asia: Economic Outcomes

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Source Link Vice President Mike Pence conducted a weeklong tour of Asia this month, standing in for President Trump at the annual Asia...

Who is Trump's trade war really helping?

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Jeff Spross Source Link Hopes were high that a meeting between Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping, at the G20 summit in Argentin...

RUSSIA VS. UKRAINE WAR? UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT SAYS NEIGHBOR IS PREPARING GROUND ATTACK

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BY  CRISTINA MAZA   Source Link During a televised speech on Monday in which he outlined his case for imposing martial law, Ukraine’...

What changes will the Corps' experiments in the information environment bring?

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By: Todd South  Source Link As the Marine Corps enters its third and final year of the reconstituted Sea Dragon experiments, past, ...

The Army is rapidly regrowing electronic warfare

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By: Mark Pomerleau   Source Link Following intense focus on building its cyber force for the last several years, the Army now wants...

Electronic Warfare Funding Up, But Short of DSB Marker

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By  SYDNEY J. FREEDBERG JR. Source Link Navy EA-18G Growler with jamming pods AOC: Electronic warfare has come a long way sinc...

Pentagon Builds Mega-Database For Spectrum & Electronic Warfare

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By SYDNEY J. FREEDBERG JR. Source Link An Army soldier sets up a highband antenna in Afghanistan. AOC: With so many troops, ta...

The Fight So Far

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By LTG Michael K. Nagata Achieving significantly greater strategic success against terrorism remains within America’s grasp, but only ...
30 November 2018

India walking a tightrope with US and Russian defense systems

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By EMANUELE SCIMIA Source Link India is aiming to modernize its strategic arsenal with the introduction of advanced US and Russian d...

The War For Peace in Afghanistan Challenge posed by ISIS affiliate must be addressed

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BY FATEMEH AMAN Source Link The message from Washington these days appears to be that severing the link between the Taliban and Paki...

Analysis: U.S. Military Grossly Underestimates Taliban, al Qaeda Force Levels in Afghanistan

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by Bill Roggio –Long War Journal Once again, the US military has grossly underestimated the size and scope of the Taliban, despite bat...

Why is Pakistan reluctant to bring Lashkar-e-Taiba to justice?

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by Taha Siddiqui  Source Link Ten years ago today, India's financial capital Mumbai was rocked by gunfire and explosions. The at...

China’s Untested Military Could Be a Force—or a Flop

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BY TIMOTHY R. HEATH  Source Link In February 1943, U.S. troops suffered a humiliating defeat in their first major battle with German ...