The return of the Taliban in an Afghanistan abandoned by both its fleeing President and the US forces infuses a perilous complexity into India’s strategic environment. The US’s chastened retreat, rather than withdrawal, from this embattled land-locked country of over 35 million puts the clock back to the time when …
Read More »The Roots Of US Failure In Afghanistan – OpEd
The rapid collapse of Afghanistan has led to predictable finger-pointing about who is to blame for “losing Afghanistan.” Both President Joe Biden and his predecessor, Donald Trump, laudably wanted to end the quagmire. Both made blunders. Most recently, under Biden, Trump’s deadline for withdrawal was ignored, a Trump-era crisis response …
Read More »Afghanistan: Sharp Regression – Analysis
Though just two weeks have passed since the Taliban returned to power in Kabul, fear among masses, as expected, has spread like wildfire across Afghanistan, forcing thousands to run towards the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, to escape a dreaded future. Unsurprisingly, the Kabul Airport and its surroundings have …
Read More »What Afghan Scenario Means For Russian-Iranian Rapprochement – Analysis
The political developments unfolding rapidly in Afghanistan since the Taliban forcibly seized power in the country reveal convergent positions between Russia and Iran on the militia’s takeover. Moscow and Tehran are among the few capitals in the world that did not express deep concern about the Taliban sweeping across Afghanistan’s …
Read More »Illusion Of Peace: Human Security Challenges In Afghanistan – OpEd
The idea of peace, for people living in Afghanistan, has remained quite elusive and distant concept for a very a long time. Owing to very vivid conflictual fault lines, the prospect of peace has often been termed as the long road keeping in view the different factors that are entrenched …
Read More »UN Security Council Urges Taliban To Provide Safe Passage Out Of Afghanistan
The UN Security passed a resolution on Monday that calls for the Taliban to facilitate safe passage for people wanting to leave Afghanistan, allow humanitarians to access the country, and uphold human rights, including for women and children. Thirteen of the 15 ambassadors voted in favour of the resolution, which …
Read More »Afghanistan: The Plot Thickens – OpEd
When something completely unexpected happens, we ascribe it to providence. But when there are a series of such occurrences revolving around a single event, it’s but natural to suspect that something’s amiss and in absence of any rational explanation, conspiracy and coverup theories abound. The latest such issue that’s caught …
Read More »Dueling Dyads: Conceptualizing Proxy Wars In Strategic Competition – Analysis
Strategic competition with the Russian Federation and People’s Republic of China has become the new orienting challenge for the U.S. national security community. While many officials and writers envision strategic competition across many domains, the increased likelihood of proxy wars in strategic competition does not gain much purchase in the …
Read More »Mindenki tudta, hogy csúnya lesz
Az Amerikai Egyesült Államok nem adta fel a világrend meghatározására való erős törekvését. A hegemón hatalom szerepét gyakran félreértik és redukálják egyfajta világcsendőri szerepre. Fontos a beavatkozási képesség – az erőprojekció –, de ennek számos módja van azon túl, hogy valahova bevonul a hadsereg. Már a 20. században nagy lépéseket …
Read More »Американцы на прощание убили кого могли
Американцы полностью ушли из Афганистана — их последний оплот, кабульский аэропорт, переходит под контроль “Талибана”*, новой власти страны. Казалось бы, после двадцати лет оккупации все должны быть довольны — афганцы тем, что избавились от оккупантов, а американцы тем, что наконец-то закончили совершенно ненужную им войну. Но Штаты даже уйти не …
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