Will Asia Pick up the Pieces in Afghanistan?
The U.S. and NATO hastily evacuated Afghanistan on 15 August 2021, ending the two-decade, $2 trillion-dollar…
Read More »Indian Defense Modernization: Surge in Artillery Capability for the Army as Key Element
The growing tensions over the Line of Actual Control (LAC) vis a vis China calls for…
Read More »Will the Syrian Earthquake Usher Damascus into the Middle East Mainstream?
Bashar and Asma al-Assad were as good as it was going to get in Syria. The…
Read More »Mobilising National Logistics in Support of Military Operations
‘The role of industrial preparedness in military strategy is anomalous. Prospectively, the role is almost always…
Read More »Working Allied Defense Supply Stockpiles: The U.S. and Danish Agreement, February 2023
In a February 8, 2023 press release, DoD announced the signing of a new agreement with…
Read More »America First and Critical Minerals: The Need for an Allied Approach
Over the past few years, Covid-19, climate change and Chinese economic coercion have catalysed rapid global…
Read More »You Can Serve Your Country: But the Department of Veterans AffairsWants to Know: What Gender do You Think You Are?
By what right does Secretary Dennis Mc Donough of the Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA) have…
Read More »The Irish Opportunity: Ireland Rethinks its Role in Security and Defense in Europe
Ireland in my lifetime has been more likely a defense problem than part of a defense…
Read More »Peter Fleming’s Brazilian Adventure
In 1951, during my first year at Queen’s College, Taunton, then a boarding school for boys…
Read More »Is Kazakhstan Finally Ready for Takeoff?
Kazakhstan’s president Kassym-Jomart Tokayev believes “Never let a crisis go to waste.” Tokayev has been on…
Read More »