By Ivan Eland.     Ivan Eland Senior Fellow and Director of the Center on Peace & Liberty, The Independent Institute   Wednesday, August 17, 2016 — Turkey’s recent flirtation with Russia, by mending [...]

By Aminesh Roul.   (1) Roadblock during Bangladesh government crackdown   After months denying the existence of transnational jihadist groups on its soil in the face of a violent campaign against secular and progressive forces, [...]

By Jim Kouri. Dozens of U.S. intelligence analysts formally filed complaints that their honest intelligence evaluations regarding the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and al-Qaida’s branch Al Nusra Front in Syria were altered [...]

By James M. Dorsey. Synopsis Pakistan’s generals blame their country’s cycle of political violence, including a recent bombing in the Baluch capital of Quetta, on groups in Afghanistan. The focus on external enemies complicates efforts [...]

 By Jim Kouri.     A number of Conservative Base readers — the majority of them current or retired law enforcement and intelligence officers — have said they believed the Hillary Clinton email scandal was created by her, her [...]

By Gary Sick.   What are the regional implications of the Iranian nuclear deal (the JCPOA)? A good place to start may be to ask what has NOT happened since the JCPOA was signed: (1) The regional states have not rushed to acquire independent [...]

By Lawrence S. Wittner.   If asked to identify the world’s superpowers today, most people would name the United States, Russia, and China. Although many citizens of these countries maintain that this status is based on the superiority [...]

  Nake M. Kamrany.     Introduction   The current engagement of U.S. wars in the broader Middle East (Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Pakistan, Libya, Somalia and other  African countries) have spread anti-American feelings [...]

By Lawrence Wittner.   At the present time, an increase in U.S. military spending seems as superfluous as a third leg. The United States, armed with the latest in advanced weaponry, has more military might than any other nation in world [...]

  By Ron Aledo.   All countries have Contingency Plans for almost any possible situation (the US Army trains for a Zombie like Apocalyptic situation in Indiana for example). Of course Russia since long time had a Contingency Plan [...]

By Nadia Arbatova.   Today European leaders must look at what their integration has produced to adjust it to new realities and challenges.   British Prime Minister David Cameron (C) looks at Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov [...]

  By Syed Qamar Afzal Rizvi.     Moscow-Ankara move towards pacification On 29 June 2016, Russian president Vladimir Putin and Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan held a 45-minute-long telephone call in which they “highlighted [...]

  By Syed Qamar Afzal Rizvi.     The verdict of the Brexit’s referendum is out. With exception of cosmopolitan London’s no to leave– espoused by Scotland and the Northern Ireland, the rest of the British voters have [...]

By Syed Qamar Afzal Rizvi.     UK’s former Prime Minister Sir John Major has launched a scathing attack on the Leave campaign accusing it of misleading people. A supporter of remaining in Europe, Major accused the Leave campaign [...]

By Nelson Hultberg.   You can search the history of mankind, and you will never find a successful society that, when under attack, did not clearly define its enemies and gather its resources together in order to vigorously fight those enemies [...]

By Syed Qamar Afzal Rizvi .   US-India relationship & Pakistan   The Indian premier Narendra Modi and the US president Barack Obama seem to have lost their love during a recently held rendezvous at the White House. The modes– [...]

By Syed Qamar Afzal Rizvi.     Russian President Vladimir Putin has met with Greek leaders in Athens as he makes a first visit to the European Union this year shortly before the bloc is due to weigh whether to extend sanctions against [...]

    By Rakesh Krishnan Simha.     One of the ironies of being a Pakistani living abroad, especially in the West, is having to pose as Indian. According to Asghar Choudhri, the chairman of Brooklyn’s Pakistani American Merchant [...]

By James M. Dorsey.   (0) (Remarks made at the Asia Pacific Roundtable, APR @ 30: Cooperation and Contestation in a Changing Regional Landscape)   We have been given the impossible task of telling you in the words of Hollywood director [...]

By Stephen Bryen.   With the establishment of the Defense Innovation Unit Experimental (DIUX), Secretary of Defense Ash Carter is putting a lot of effort into building a relationship with Silicon Valley, hoping some — but not too much [...]