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The Taliban Peace Calculus
For the Taliban, the ongoing peace talks are a quest for political legitimacy and a political tactic—not a…
Defeating the Philippine’s Communist Rebellion
CPP-NPA and the Duterte Administration: Post-Activism, Insurgency, and Terrorism
Five decades of insurgency and…
The New Taiwan Strait Crisis: a Dangerous Decade Ahead
Foreign Brief analysis by Tommy Chai (May 31, 2019)
What's Happening?China’s military expansion is occurring at a…
Haftar Ante Portas Tripoli
After a relatively easy advance through the southern and central parts of Libya, the country's renegade general now…
How Russia’s Disinformation Campaigns are…
Russian disinformation campaigns continue to increase, and increasingly seems to be part of a coordinated campaign…
Sri Lanka: Jihadism and Separatism in an…
On April 21st, Sri Lanka suffered from several lethal terrorist attacks that killed at least 359 people and injured…
The Four “Nots” to Correctly Interpreting…
Correctly appraising the rise of China is the sine qua non for engaging with it.In contrast to its predecessors,…
Designating the IRGC as a Terrorist Group: Consequences…
The obsession in the United States with the “war on terror” entered a new phase when U.S. President Donald Trump…
The Resilience of Jihadi Extremist Groups in North…
Eight years after Qaddafi's fall, Libya remains in a state of chaos due to the fragmentation of power and contrast…
The Pulwama Incident Part Two: Pakistan and India Have…
The world stood on the precipice of a nuclear war in the final week of February 2019.
This article is a…
The Pulwama Incident Part One: The Razor’s Edge
The Pulwama Bombing, India’s Response, and its Impact on South Asian Security
The Pulwama bombings in Kashmir on…
Durand Line Border Dispute Remains Point of Contention…
On multiple occasions over the past several years, Afghan and Pakistani forces have clashed with one another along…