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2nd aircraft carrier boosts China’s defense ability

The Shandong (hull 17), China's second aircraft carrier as well as its first domestically built one, was commissioned Tuesday afternoon into the People's Liberation Army Navy in Sanya, South China's…

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I served in Afghanistan No, it’s not another Vietnam

By Ryan Crocker In 2008, Congress established the Office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) to investigate waste and fraud in the war zone. In the past…

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Afghanistan – graveyard of empires

“In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.” Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn By Eric S. Margolis This week, the venerable Washington Post…

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Strategic Defense System of Islam

Nusrat Mirza On May 23rd, 1983 American president Ronald Regan introduced the doctrine of Strategic Defense first. This was signal to all American scientists to develop weapons which render all…

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Reimagining Governance in a Multipolar World

Report on DOHA FORUM 2019 NusratMirza Doha Forum, with more than 4000 participants and 300 speakers, from more than 100 countries, took place on 14 and 15th December 2019 at Doha…

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India’s ‘military diplomacy’ has been a mixed bag of success

By Andrew Korybko India's practice of “military diplomacy” in holding joint drills with a variety of Great Powers and regional states has been a mixed bag of success since the…

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Gandhi’s great – grandson joins wave of protest at law isolating India’s Muslims

As the new Citizenship Act risks defining Muslims as 'infiltrators', Tushar Arun Gandhi lends support to the backlash By Zoe Osborne & Hannah Ellis-Petersen About 25,000 protesters gathered in Mewat,…

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US – India relations Natural partners, unnatural times

By Ajai Shukla On Wednesday in Washington DC, after the second US-India 2+2 Ministerial Dialogue, in which US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Secretary of Defence Mark Esper co-hosted…

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