The intelligence top brass warns the US of increasing “Afghan Trouble”
News Analysis | On Thursday, the US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence was presented with a comprehensive Worldwide Threat Assessment Report. The Director of National...
Russia’s interference: US foreign policy or domestic policy?
Adam Garrie | Many had hoped that the firing of former FBI director James Comey would bring an end to the disgrace of ‘Russiagate’. Russiagate...
Will Trump be left standing alone against North Korea?
M. K. Bhadrakumar | On Tuesday, even as Moon Jae-in got elected as South Korea’s next president, in faraway Oslo, North Korean and American representatives sat...
America’s wars around the globe: Necessary and constitutional?
Jacob G. Hornberger | For 45 years, the United States was engaged in a Cold War against the Soviet Union and communism. In the 1960s,...
US Troop surge in Afghanistan: Will it work this time?
News Analysis | Following swift incursions being made by a resurgent Taliban, top US security and foreign affairs aides have proposed a new strategy for...
Focusing on ISIS: Are we losing sight of a bigger enemy in Afghanistan?
Michael Kugelman | On April 13, the U.S. military dropped a huge bomb on caves and tunnels used by Islamic State fighters in eastern Afghanistan....
Trump’s ‘America First’ reappears centre stage
M. K. Bhadrakumar | The US President Donald Trump’s foreign policy team bears an appearance of being dominated by the military brass. This, in turn,...
Trump’s upcoming pilgrimage capture’s the world’s attention!
The Whitehouse has announced that President Donald Trump will be embarking on his very first foreign visit. The focal points of his visit are...
How the USA ensures that its ‘desired parties’ are elected abroad
Daniel McAdams | Washington's hysteria about Russian interference in the US presidential election has long since metastasized to a good chunk of the rest of the country....
China wants US and North Korea to ‘stop irritating each other’
China has urged restraint over the situation in North Korea as both sides continue to release provocative statements. China while not happy with North...
Candidate Donald Trump is surfacing again: A series of pleasant surprises
T.S. Eliot said, “April is the cruelest month”. For those who wanted a Trump administration that was anti-interventionist, diplomatic, and focused mainly on domestic...
Mother of All Bombs: nothing more than a mere theatrical act by the US?
M. K. Bhadrakumar | The BBC’s first-hand report from the remote site in the southern Afghanistan province of Nangarhar where the US dropped the Mother...