Pakistan is facing a grave internal security crisis as radical extremists are gradually gaining ground. The crisis is attributable to a large…
military-jihadi complex
By USINPAC Defence And Strategic Affairs Blog
India has begun maneuvering to fill the potential power vacuum in Afghanistan. As an earlier post argued, the quickening U.S. disengagement from…
By USINPAC Defence And Strategic Affairs Blog
After the fusillade of accusations and denials between Washington and Islamabad, things remain pretty much the same as before. Precisely a decade…
By USINPAC Defence And Strategic Affairs Blog
The post-Osama phase of the US-Pakistan relationship is proving to be extremely turbulent. The swift U.S. reaction to the attack on its…
By USINPAC Defence And Strategic Affairs Blog
The situation in Jammu & Kashmir (J&K) continues to remain a cause for concern to the government of India. Since end-1989, Pakistan…
By USINPAC Defence And Strategic Affairs Blog
Pakistan’s civil society is gradually being torn apart by radical extremism and sectarian violence and its powerful army seems incapable of stemming…
By USINPAC Defence And Strategic Affairs Blog
According to Henry Kissinger (“How to Exit Afghanistan,” Washington Post, June 8, 2011), four conditions must be met to make the exit…
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Why India must try to bring the United States, Iran and Russia together over Afghanistan Imagine Afghanistan without extra-regional powers like the…
By USINPAC Defence And Strategic Affairs Blog
In an identity of opinion more typical of North Korea than of the US, “expert” opinion in the Beltway has been near-unanimous…
By USINPAC Defence And Strategic Affairs Blog
In an identity of opinion more typical of North Korea than of the US, “expert” opinion in the Beltway has been near-unanimous…