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25 August 2021

Cyber Weapons – A Weapon of War?

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Maj Gen PK Mallick, VSM (Retd) Introduction  The character of warfare has changed fundamentally over the last decade. In the past, it was es...

Social Media in Violent Conflicts – Recent Examples

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Maj Gen PK Mallick, VSM (Retd) Introduction Alan Rusbridger, the then editor-in-chief of the Guardian in his 2010 Andrew Olle Media Lecture,...

United States' Failure to Push Back Pakistan Has Brought Taliban to Kabul. India Had Seen it Coming.

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Arun K. Singh Source Link As the Taliban appear to be on the verge of  storming  into Kabul, consigning possibly into the dustbin of hist...

Nobody Wins in Afghanistan

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Adam Weinstein Source Link Afghanistan attracted hundreds of billions of dollars in aid and troops from dozens of countries, especially NATO...

Afghanistan is not the country the Taliban last ruled. Will that matter?

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Khaled Hosseini Source Link And just like that, in a matter of days, the Taliban is back. Its flag flies proudly over major Afghan cities, i...

Miscue After Miscue, U.S. Exit Plan Unravels

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Michael D. Shear, David E. Sanger, Helene Cooper, Eric Schmitt, Julian E. Barnes  Source Link WASHINGTON — The nation’s top national securit...

Afghan Resistance Ready For Conflict But Prefers Negotiations

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David FOX  Source Link Former Afghan government forces forming a resistance movement in a fortified valley are preparing for "long-term...

The Taliban’s new reign of terror

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JOHN SIMPSON Source Link Ican’t help watching again and again the video showing some poor devil clinging to the undercarriage of a US Air F...

What Will the Taliban Do With a $22 Billion Economy?

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Bobby Ghosh Source Link No sooner had the Taliban taken Kabul than questions began to be asked about how they would manage Afghanistan’s eco...

The Entirely Predictable Failure of the West's Mission in Afghanistan

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Christoph Reuter Source Link In early July, before the great storm broke over Afghanistan, Kabul was already surrounded by the Taliban. And ...

Afghanistan, Again, Becomes a Cradle for Jihadism—and Al Qaeda

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Robin Wright Source Link In March, I travelled to Afghanistan and the Middle East with General Kenneth (Frank) McKenzie, Jr., the Alabama-b...

Hostile Harbors: Taiwan’s Ports and PLA Invasion Plans

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Ian Easton Source Link The scale of an all-out Taiwan (Republic of China, ROC) invasion by the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) military—the ...

China and the Taliban: What to Watch

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Bonnie Girard Source Link Over the past 180 years, Afghan fighters have prevailed over the British, Soviet, and now American forces that ha...

The US and China Are Not Destined for War

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CHARLES C. KRULAK, ALEX FRIEDMAN Source Link BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA – In the year 2034, the United States and China become embroiled in a serie...

China’s Anti-Satellite Weapons Could Conquer Taiwan—Or Start a War

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Brian G. Chow, Brandon Kelley Source Link On July 1, 2021—the one-hundredth birthday of the Chinese Communist Party— President Xi Jinping d...

China’s Coming Afghan Policy: a Window on China’s New Strategy

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François Godement Source Link On July 28, China widely broadcast official photos of China’s Foreign Minister greeting Taliban leader Ghani ...

China’s Top Priority In Afghanistan Is Stability, Experts Say

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JACQUELINE FELDSCHER Source Link The scene at the Kabul airport continues to be chaotic more than a week after the Taliban captured Afghan...

Ideological Competition With China Is Inevitable—Like It or Not

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Nathan Levine Source Link As rancorous U.S.-China talks in late July demonstrated, tensions between the two superpowers have continued to e...

Iran and Saudi Arabia Battle for Supremacy in the Middle East

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Source Link Over the past decade, the struggle between Iran and Saudi Arabia for dominance in the Middle East has insinuated itself into nea...

Column: The fall of Kabul doesn’t need to spell the end of U.S. global power

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DOYLE MCMANUS Source Link Amid the chaos in Kabul, politicians and pundits have declared the Taliban’s victory in Afghanistan a defeat from ...

US credibility with military allies at risk over Afghanistan pullout

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LAURA KELLY AND BRETT SAMUELS  Source Link The messy withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan and the subsequent scramble to protect civil...

Can America’s Withdrawal From Afghanistan Help Its China Strategy?

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Dingding Chen Source Link U.S. President Joe Biden has been severely criticized from all fronts in recent weeks as the United States’ suppo...

When You’re Wounded and Left on Afghanistan’s Plains

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George Friedman Source Link I was shocked by what happened in Afghanistan in the past week or so. Not because I didn’t expect it – President...

Twenty Years After 9/11, Are We Any Smarter?

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Jordan Michael Smith Source Link On a warm June evening in downtown Manhattan, tourists hoping to visit the National September 11 Memorial ...

The U.S. Doesn’t Have to Choose Between Counterterrorism and Great Power Competition

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Colin P. Clarke Source Link In an address to the nation in early July, President Joe Biden suggested that one of the factors leading him to...

A Post-American Central Asia

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 Alexander Cooley Source Link The stunning Taliban victory in Afghanistan has unleashed a wave of anger at U.S. President Joe Biden. Critics...

Could Cyberwar Make the World Safer?

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Cybèle C. Greenberg Source Link The battles in a global cyberwar are visible only through periodic glances in the rearview mirror: Indra , C...

Cyber Attribution and State Responsibility

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William Banks Source Link Abstract We might expect international law to specifically address cyber attribution requirements due to the signi...

How Big Data Carried Graph Theory Into New Dimensions

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Source Link GRAPH THEORY ISN’T enough. The mathematical language for talking about connections, which usually depends on networks—vertices (...

I Can’t Forget the Lessons of Vietnam. Neither Should You.

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Viet Thanh Nguyen Source Link I was 4 years old when Saigon fell, so I do not remember any of it. I count myself lucky, since many Vietnames...
24 August 2021

Social Media in Violent Conflicts – Recent Examples

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Maj Gen PK Mallick, VSM (Retd) Introduction Alan Rusbridger, the then editor-in-chief of the Guardian in his 2010 Andrew Olle Media Lecture,...

China’s Nuclear and Missile Capabilities: An Overview

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Maj Gen PK Mallick, VSM (Retd) Since China first conducted a nuclear weapon test in 1964, its nuclear doctrine has remained unchanged and is...

Pakistan’s Pyrrhic Victory in Afghanistan

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Husain Haqqani Source Link Pakistan’s security establishment is cheering the Taliban’s recent military gains in Afghanistan. The country’s h...

Taliban’s special forces outfit providing ‘security’ at Kabul airport

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THOMAS JOSCELYN & BILL ROGGIO Source Link Taliban-linked social media accounts claim that members of the group’s Badri 313 outfit are pr...

What Went Wrong in Afghanistan?

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Source Link Danielle Pletka: Having Won, We Chose to Lose We Americans like to deceive ourselves. We want to believe there is good war and b...