25 October 2021 The US lost a great military mind and most capable diplomat, who had personal credibility and standing that was unheralded for the offices he held on his long record of public service, whether as NSA, as Chairman JCS, as America’s Diplomat in Chief as Secretary of State, or even as a retired […]
Tag: Taliban
02 September 2021 The Taliban have not been the greatest turncoats, in fact, there is sufficient evidence that the Haqqani faction and the Taliban are actually siamese twins, if not one and the same person. However, the way Western players from US to UK are now trying to create a margin for error, moving out […]
25 August 2021 What the entire spectrum of Western media is agog with is what they ride high on- humanitarian crises, that has been set upon by the current situation in Afghanistan. The early reports of executions, arrests, public defacing using ink, flogging etc that are now coming to the fore are one part of […]
18 August 2021 The way many American veterans are arguing about the Biden Administration, it would seem that they were arguing for continued presence in perpetuity of the US mission to keep Afghanistan from the Taliban. What few strategic analysts can now grasp in clarity, amidst the chaotic scenes from Kabul is how orderly the […]
(India must follow his lead…) 16 August 2021 It was with a lot of eeriness that Indians and viewers every where watched the fall of Kabul on the very day India commemorated her 75th Anniversary of Independence, with Mr Modi delivering another speech high on octane and optics, as he promised to his countrymen and […]
2 August 2021 The entire saga seems rather scripted, isn’t it? That if we read this modern piece of history in the making, it would appear as if this was a kind of ‘deja vu’, a redux of the charade, where one superpower first enters the scene and then is forced to exit by a rag […]
25 November 2020 One of the worst decisions taken by President Trump was his firing of Secretary Defense Mr Esper for refusing to kowtow his desire to pull out American Troops from Afghanistan before the end of his term, ahead of any verifiable mutual agreement between the Taliban and the Afghan government at Kabul https://thesoufancenter.org/intelbrief-how-will-a-u-s-drawdown-impact-afghanistan/. […]