Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Sun, 12/30/2018 - 14:56
Paper No. 6473 Dated 30-Dec-2018
By Dr Subhash Kapila
Afghanistan’s geostrategic location and presence of US Forces embedded in Afghanistan provide a sheet anchor for Indo Pacific security on its Western Periphery. Indo Pacific Security template has comprehensively emerged as crucial for US security in 2018 prompting rechristening of US Pacific Command as US Indo Pacific Command.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Sun, 12/09/2018 - 05:50
Paper No. 6468 Dated 9-Dec-2018
By Dr Subhash Kapila
Geopolitically in end-2018 the United States finds itself in a policy conundrum on Afghanistan primarily because of the inability of US policy planners to recognise that Afghanistan geographically flanked by Pakistan and Iran as Islamist Sates adversarial to United States complicates effective US embedment in Afghanistan for restoration of stability and security.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Tue, 10/23/2018 - 12:15
Paper No. 6450 Dated 23-Oct-2018
R M Panda
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Thu, 10/11/2018 - 08:31
Paper No. 6438 Dated 11-Oct-2018
By R M Panda
On 7th October 2018, Taliban greeted the 17h year of United States invasion of Afghanistan by attacks that caused 54 deaths of whom 35 were Security Personnel and the rest civilians.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Wed, 09/19/2018 - 13:22
Paper No. 6428 Dated 19-Sept-2018
By Dr Subhash Kapila
Geopolitically, Afghanistan in end-2018 can best be characterised that it has certainly not turned out as United States second not so victorious Vietnam War despite Pakistan’s effort in collusion with China to forge a China-Pakistan-Russia Trilateral to adversely tilt the balance against the United States. United States continues to be firmly embedded in Afghanistan as resolved by US President Trump.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Sun, 08/26/2018 - 09:56
Paper No. 6415 Dated 26-Aug-2018
By R.M. Panda
The situation in Afghanistan is confusing with the interference of all major powers who pursue their own agenda and their strategic interests. The beleaguered Afghan Government that has been legitimately elected has been fighting on all fronts and doing its best.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Tue, 01/09/2018 - 10:19
Paper No. 6338 Dated 09-Jan-2018
By Dr Subhash Kapila
For far too long the United States has borne the strategic weight of Pakistan’s strategic contradictions of pretensions to be a staunch US ally and simultaneously resorting to destabilisation US interests in Afghanistan by terrorism and suicide bombings sponsored by Pakistan Army though its Islamic Jihadi affiliates.
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