“The Commission finds that DoD’s business practices, byzantine research and development and procurement systems, reliance on decades-old military hardware, and culture of risk avoidance reflect an era of uncontested military dominance… Such methods are not suited to today’s strategic environment…. The U.S. public are largely unaware of the dangers the United States faces or the costs (financial and otherwise) required […]

This report includes two translations. One is a translation of a Dari-language media report published on Afintl.com about Afghan Taliban cleric Mullah Sultan Muhammad Saqib, who is the head of Afghan Taliban’s jihadi madrassa in Nangarhar province and has followers among the Taliban fighters. He tells his followers that the unbelievers are occupying Jerusalem and jihad has become obligatory on […]

The nearly quarter billion people who live in Pakistan are suffering due to a handful of corrupt military and political figures dutifully complying with the dog whistle blown by a leading US diplomat ordering them to depose their patriotic multipolar premier or risk losing perks from the West. None of this would have happened had former Chief Of Army Staff […]

The challenge ahead is a formidable one that will require the military-intelligence services to fully focus on this newly metastasized terrorist threat in order to emerge victorious, which in turn necessitates their top brass giving them the order to abandon the all-out nationwide crackdown against the opposition. Pakistan’s prior large-scale anti-terrorist operations succeeded precisely because those carrying them out weren’t […]

Why Chinese Strategists See Little Difference Between the Two Over the past few weeks, the upheavals in the U.S. presidential election season have drawn enormous global attention. Even before the summer began, countries were weighing the implications of former President Donald Trump’s return to the White House and, conversely, what a second term for U.S. President Joe Biden might bring. […]

China promotes its dominant party model in Africa through a suite of training programs for party and government officials even though this model is antithetical to Africans’ preference for multiparty democracy. A ubiquitous Chinese government talking point is the principle of non-interference in other countries. This includes issues of governance where China has long claimed that it does not export […]

Si l’on combine la géographie politique et la géopolitique, il est facile de constater que le groupe de pays situés au nord de la mer d’Arabie présente un certain nombre de caractéristiques communes. Certaines parties de l’Iran moderne et de l’Afghanistan représentent le Khorasan historique, et la ceinture pachtoune s’étend de l’Afghanistan au Pakistan. Le Pakistan et l’Iran sont unis […]

The tribal areas of Pakistan, particularly in regions like North and South Waziristan, have long been known for their complex social dynamics and occasional violent clashes. The recent tragic incident involving Hazrat Naeem, also known as Gilaman Wazir, is a stark reminder of the volatility that exists within these communities. Despite various development efforts, these regions remain fraught with tensions […]

What appears to have convinced American policymakers to consider returning back to their pragmatic approach towards India instead of continuing to pressure it on Russia is those two’s newfound convergence on Tibet and especially Ukraine. US Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell admitted during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing that “[India] will never be a formal ally or partner […]

On s’attend à ce que le Premier ministre Narendra Modi donne la priorité à un tournant historique dans les relations entre l’Inde et la Chine, comme héritage de ses 15 années au pouvoir. Les choses évoluent en effet dans ce sens. Un haut fonctionnaire indien a déclaré à l’agence de presse nationale PTI qu’il était nécessaire d’adopter une «approche nuancée» […]