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4 March 2021

Chinese Cyber Exploitation in India’s Power Grid – Is There a linkage to Mumbai Power Outage?

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Maj Gen PK Mallick, VSM (Retd) New York Times report on U.S. based intelligence firm Recorded future giving details of Chinese penetration ...

Last Exit from Afghanistan

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By Dexter Filkins Source Link On the night of August 14th, Fawzia Koofi was on her way home to Kabul from the funeral of family friends. Koo...

The rivalry between America and China will hinge on South-East Asia

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Source Link During their 45-year feud, America and the Soviet Union fought proxy battles all across the world. But the cold war was at its m...

The World Faces a Choice Between Bad and Worse in Myanmar

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By David Hutt Source Link The Brazilian philosopher Paulo Freire put it that “washing one’s hands of the conflict between the powerful and ...

Nepal’s Supreme Court Rules to Reinstate Parliament, Adding Twist to Tale

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By Sudha Ramachandran Source Link On February 23, a five-member constitutional bench of the Nepal Supreme Court decided unanimously to rein...

Myanmar Crisis Hinges on Stance of Ethnic Political and Armed Organizations

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By Philipp Annawitt Source Link More than three weeks after the February 1 coup in Myanmar, in which the military toppled the civilian gove...

China Charges Ahead With a National Digital Currency

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By Nathaniel Popper and Cao Li Source Link After joining the lottery through the social media app WeChat , Ms. Huang, 28, a business strateg...

Latin American Governments Are Caught in the Middle of the U.S.-China Tech War

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BY OLIVER STUENKEL Source Link For most policymakers in Latin America, the best way to react to growing geopolitical tensions between the Un...

US Intelligence Report Leaves Saudi Arabia With No Good Geopolitical Choices – Analysis

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James M. Dorsey  Sourec Link The Biden administration’s publication of a US intelligence report that holds Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin ...

Iran: Rouhani Underlines Importance Of Non-Oil Exports In Combating Sanctions

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Tasnim News Agency Source Link Iranian President Hassan Rouhani called on local manufacturers to focus on non-oil exports and expanding acce...

Who Is Hot and Who Is Not in the Middle East

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BY STEVEN A. COOK  Source Link This week, Politico ran a story revealing the Biden administration is deprioritizing the Middle East. It was...

How to Make the Iranian Nuclear Deal Durable

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by Abolghasem Bayyenat Seyed Hossein Mousavian Source Link The fate of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), or what is more commo...

In Armenia, Anger Over Nagorno-Karabakh Comes to a Head

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Source Link Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan addresses his supporters gathered on Republic Square in downtown Yerevan, Armenia, on Fe...

U.S. Airstrikes in Syria Target Iran-Backed Militias That Rocketed American Troops in Iraq

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By Helene Cooper and Eric Schmitt Source Link WASHINGTON — The United States on Thursday carried out airstrikes in eastern Syria against bu...

Iran, Syria Stress Alliance as Joe Biden Launches Airstrikes

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David Brennan Source Link The foreign ministers of Iran and Syria spoke by phone on Thursday as President Joe Biden launched his first airs...

US Needs Better Space Defenses, Including Weapons: CSIS

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By THERESA HITCHENS Source Link WASHINGTON: The US must make near-term policy, technical and investment decisions about how it intends to ...

How global tech executives view U.S.-China tech competition

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Christopher A. Thomas and Xander Wu Source Link The global technology industry is hedging its bets. As the United States and China compete f...

At the mercy of foreign powers

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By Greg Miller, Missy Ryan, Sudarsan Raghavan and Souad Mekhennet Source Link The Soviet-era cargo plane rose from a frigid Moscow runway an...

Ethiopia-Sudan Border Skirmishes Spark Fears of a Wider War

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Yasir Zaidan  Source Link In mid-February, Sudan summoned home its ambassador to Ethiopia amid an escalating dispute over a stretch of agri...

Semiconductors, minerals: Supply chain review to cover key military tech

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Andrew Eversden Source Link WASHINGTON — A new review ordered by President Joe Biden will improve understanding of risks posed by supply cha...

Britain's GCHQ cyber spies embrace the AI revolution

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By Guy Faulconbridge Source Link LONDON (Reuters) - Britain’s cyber spies at the GCHQ eavesdropping agency say they have fully embraced arti...

Younger Military Personnel Reject Vaccine, in Warning for Commanders and the Nation

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By Jennifer Steinhauer Source Link WASHINGTON — Americans who go into the military understand the loss of personal liberty. Many of their da...

The Craft of Wargaming

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By Natalia Wojtowicz Source Link Wargaming can provide a decisive edge if used to elicit meaningful results by decision-makers. The time ta...

Army EW Targets Foes For Infantry

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By SYDNEY J. FREEDBERG JR. Source Link WASHINGTON: As the Army rebuilds its long-neglected electronic warfare arm, it’s finding simple t...

Air Force general busts myth that enemies always try to stop rivals’ communications

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Mark Pomerleau Source Link WASHINGTON — A top Air Force general wants to dispel the common assumption that adversaries will always try to cu...

Sir Tom Moore’s funeral: Second World War-era plane to fly over ‘spectacular’ ceremony

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Daisy Lester Source Link Sir Tom came to international attention last year when he raised almost £33 million for the NHS walking 100 length...
3 March 2021

Border Disputes Threaten Climate Science in the Himalayas

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Source Link  Perched on a mountaintop in northern India, the Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences (ARIES) has been monito...

In Kolkata, Only a Few Lions Are Still Dancing

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BY HAMSINI HARIHARAN Source Link On the eve of the Lunar New Year, the streets are dotted with red and yellow lights. Large red banners hang...

Understanding Power in Counterinsurgency: A Case Study of the Soviet-Afghanistan War

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Marnix Middelburg Source Link This content was originally written for an undergraduate or Master's program. It is published as part of o...

What Happened to the Afghan Peace Talks?

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Grant Farr Source Link The peace talks between the Afghan government and the Afghan Taliban were set to resume in Doha, Qatar on January 6, ...

Chinese cyberspies targeted Tibetans with a malicious Firefox add-on

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By Catalin Cimpanu Source Link Chinese state-sponsored hackers have gone after Tibetan organizations across the world using a malicious Fire...

UN Human Rights Council: As the US returns, it will have to deal with China and its friends

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Ted Piccone Source Link The Biden administration announced its intention to rejoin the U.N. Human Rights Council again. However, China and o...

Competition With China Shouldn’t Dictate U.S. Foreign Policy

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Ali Wyne  Source Link One of former President Donald Trump’s principal legacies was to elevate the attention that U.S. foreign policy accord...

China, UAE Forge New Deals; Joint R&D Plan & New Drone Sales

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By CHYRINE MEZHER Source Link ABU DHABI: The UAE army plans to buy a bunch of new Chinese unmanned aerial vehicles, one official who wishe...