Pakistan cannot catch a break. As if daily killings from sectarian and terrorist groups were not enough to inflict mass casualties on innocent Pakistanis, tremendous rains have caused huge floods that continue to plague the country’s western frontier (that’s right, the same border where the Pakistani military and American drones are hammering extremist strongholds). Pakistani officials […]
While the Obama Administration is seeking to cut several billions in defense spending, an independent review panel last week determined that the United States are inadequately preparing for future warfare. Does the American military really need more of everything though? The Independent Quadrennial Defense Review Panel, chaired by former defense secretary William Perry and former […]
My colleague Nick Ottens already touched upon this story yesterday, but because of the issue’s tremendous importance to the United States and the Middle East at large, I thought it would be appropriate to toss a few things into the debate. In case you happened to miss Nick’s report, a substantial portion of the Republican […]
The Obama Administration’s China policy is one of sending mixed messages.
Republicans are playing a dangerous game pretending that the United States should wage a third armed conflict in the Middle East.
Once Europe adopts a common foreign policy, America could no longer take advantage of internal division.
The Chinese are furious about what they see as American meddling in their sphere of influence.
The British prime minister wants a “stronger, wider and deeper” relationship with India.
Although hardly “crippling” its regime, the sanctions imposed upon Iran by the United Nations, Europe and the United States for its illegitimate nuclear program appear to have some effect at isolating the country. Brazil and Turkey approached Iran earlier this year to negotiate and reached a nuclear fuel exchange agreement in May under which Iran […]
Pakistan is pivotal to America’s strategy in South Asia but it has little reason to continue to act as an ally.
There is little news to be gathered from the classified Afghan war reports released by WikiLeaks.
Is worrying over Anglo-American relations no more than a curious pastime?
The fast growth of Asia’s cities is chaotic and rife with problems. But that is not unusual.
Republicans have high hopes for November’s midterm elections for Congress and for good reason. The president and his party are deeply unpopular with moderate and conservative voters, in spite or rather because of their push for health care and financial reform; monumental legislations which the opposition has been able to taint as unprecedented government takeovers. […]
Instead of internationalizing the war effort or learning from previous counterinsurgencies, the United States will abandon Afghanistan.
