I served in Afghanistan No, it’s not another Vietnam
ahmed sabirBy 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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
No more pro-India voices in the Valley
In one stroke, the BJP government decimated the pro-India constituency in Kashmir in early August when it ended, through the parliamentary route, Jammu and Kashmir's special status. This was not…
India’s Modi has had a free pass from the west for too long
By Gideon Rachman The world's democracies are desperate to believe in India. From Washington to Tokyo, and from Canberra to London, the country is viewed as an indispensable counterbalance to…
Exclusive! ‘India must be on guard against Tamil separatists’
'India's friendship and support is very important to Sri Lanka. It is a matter of regret that India appears to have thought otherwise.' 'Sri Lanka's relationship with China has always…
Asia’s Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP)
The RCEP Train Left the Station, and India, behind India's Refusal on RCEP Causes Far-reaching Geopolitical Implications By Pepe Escobar India officially refused to join the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership…
India’s SC endorses right-wing vision relegating Muslims to second-class citizens
By Rana Ayyub Like many Indians, I was glued to the television set on Saturday, awaiting the Supreme Court's decision about the site of the Babri Masjid, an important mosque…