Tag: Soviet Union
A highly strategic corridor
By Claude Arpi
During the 1962 war, China’s Air Force was not in a flying condition because of lack of fuel. It possibly got some...
If truth and fact no longer matter, lies can destroy us
By Harlan Ullman
To take liberties with Voltaire, "Liars figure and figures lie." Taken more broadly, all of us are prone to exaggeration, stretching the...
Betraying Mountbatten’s spirit
By Jawed Naqvi
IT was an illuminating discussion between different factions from across the Irish fault lines at Yale University last month, which may hold...
Confronting Iran
By Michael R. Pompeo
The Trump Administration’s Strategy
The end of the Cold War forced new thinking among policymakers and analysts about the greatest challenges to U.S....
ROOM FOR DISSENT
By FS Aijazuddin
The name game & room for dissent
Renaming Aurangzeb Road or secularising Allahabad as Prayagraj, Faizabad as Ayodhya and Ahmedabad to Karnavati are...
Will Trump’s Tough Talk on Pakistan Yield Results?
By Bennett Seftel
Bottom Line: U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened to cut off aid to Pakistan to force Islamabad to take a harder line...
Making adjustments to Trump’s world order
By Shahid Javed Burki
I will use some personal history to make the main point of the article this week. I will suggest today that the...
Zbigniew Brzezinski was masterful doer and teacher
By Harlan Ullman, Arnaud deBorchgrave Distinguished Columnist
Just days ago, Zbigniew Brzezinski, President Jimmy Carter's national security adviser and one of the most brilliant strategic...
Not so Great Game
By Aasim Sajjad Akhtar
THE world has turned upside down. The United States under Donald Trump is rapidly becoming unrecognisable from the country that has...
NATO facing a challenge of relevance in time of ‘no world...
By Harlan Ullman, Arnaud deBorchgrave Distinguished Columnist
Since its creation in 1949, NATO has been at many "crossroads" when its future was often seen in...