A joint Stanford/NY University study on the human costs of President Obama’s drone wars in the fight to eliminate terrorism has found that only 2% of strikes resulted in the successful targeting of high-level terrorist targets but that a much… Read More ›
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NATO Chicago Summit Stresses NATO’s Search for New Global Role & Highlights New Strategic Perspectives in Afghanistan & Pakistan
Chicago NATO Summit 2012 Declaration | Defense & Security News at DefenceTalk. Post-Libya and nearly post-Syria, it is clear that NATO seeks to understand and then establish a new role for itself globally, not only in defense, but it appears,… Read More ›
Implications of Obama’s new Longer-term Strategic Partnership Agreement with Afghanistan
Today, on the anniversary of the mission that eliminated Osama bin Laden across the border in Pakistan, President Obama has flown to Afghanistan to sign the much-anticipated longer-term Strategic Cooperation Agreement. As I write, President Obama is personally finalizing details… Read More ›
US-Pakistan Relations: Realistic Future Options Defined by Necessity? + Responses to Mr. Rudd
The US and Pakistan are like star-crossed lovers that have great sex when they eventually get together but the path to pleasure is so strewn with geopolitical and strategic land mines, that sex is rare! Very rare! Yet like… Read More ›
China’s Sphere of Control challenged by India’s Agni 5 and Contestation in the Spratly Islands + Response to Comments
After the introvert-ism of the cultural revolution, China has been steadily building its power and position as a regional, if not a global mega power. During the Cold War, China deliberately took on the-then more powerful US by supporting armed… Read More ›
Siachen Glacier Tragedy Represents an Opportunity for Mediating an Entrenched Conflict
On 13 April 1984, India took over a strategic portion of the Siachen Glacier in a military operation that since 1947, had been controlled by Pakistan. One of the most beautiful places on the earth, technically translating to “the land… Read More ›
Osama Bin Laden: New Info About Pakistan’s Collusion Should Create Accountability
It seems incredible that OBL had time, not only to lead one of the largest terrorist organizations in the world and to resist international attempts to identify and capture him, but incredulously, he also had time to father 5 kids!… Read More ›
IPI Global Observatory – Change of Guard at Pakistan’s ISI: Some Implications
This brief is really lacking any strategic recommendations or the observation that ISI under the new leadership of General Islam should be controlled and bought into civilian oversight. For too long this organization has supported the rise of extremist terrorist… Read More ›
Germany and Pakistan: A Comparative Analysis of Presidential Impunity
On Friday, Germany’s President Christian Wulff resigned after prosecutors from his home province of Lower Saxony asked the Bundestag to strip him of his impunity so that corruption investigations could go to scale. Adequate proof was presented for the Bundestag… Read More ›
Joint Tripartite Agreement between Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan – Feb 2012
Joint Statement of Trilateral Summit, Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan
Pakistan’s Imminent Internal Collapse: De-facto Coup d’Etat by ISI
A lot has been written about the rise of the ISI, Pakistan’s intelligent agency, as a quisling factor in the pacification of the Afghanistan-Paksitan region and the war against Al-Qaeda. While ISI has been pivotal in providing important linkages to… Read More ›
Memogate tempts the Pakistan Military to Coup Against the Incumbent Civilian Government
The plight of Pakistan has been 50 years of lack of leadership. After the sudden and untimely demise of their founding leader, Mohammed Ali Jinnah, Pakistan has been trapped in a vertigo of lack of real leadership and the growing… Read More ›
Part 2 Pakistan and the US: You should get what you give!
As mentioned in part one, US mis-investment in Pakistan had provided the financing for the emergence of religious militancy in Pakistan. Yet there are two other factors that have to be considered, if analysis is to be complete. Nuclear Capacity:… Read More ›
Pakistan and the US: You get what you give?
The US-Pakistan relationship has a long history stretching over decades starting in 1947 when Pakistan gained its independence. The conflict between India and Pakistan over the strategically located Kashmir region, a doorway to the shrouded Central Asia and Western China,… Read More ›
2011 A year of revolution, 2012 ?
The year 2011 has been tumultuous in many ways, both individual and collectively. The world has witnessed seismic changes in North Africa, in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya, while old relationships and alliances such as between Pakistan and the US appear… Read More ›
