Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Mon, 12/18/2017 - 06:29
Paper No. 6329 Dated 18-Dec-2017
By Dr Subhash Kapila
Afghanistan in no military sense has emerged as United States ‘Second Vietnam’ ; however if the United States wavers in its current resolve to stabilise Afghanistan’s governance and security, then, the China-Pakistan-Russia Trilateral could possibly succeed in making Afghanistan a ‘Second Vietnam’ for United States.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Tue, 04/25/2017 - 05:51
Paper No. 6248 Dated 25-Apr-2017
By Dr Subhash Kapila
The United States original sins on Afghanistan and the after effects of which haunt the United States in 2017 is that in both its military interventions in Afghanistan and more so the recent one in 2001 still ongoing, it overly depended on an unreliable and double-timing Pakistan to deliver US strategic objectives.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Sat, 04/13/2013 - 14:06
Paper No. 5459 Dated 13-Apr-2013
By B.Raman
As the US troops prepare to thin themselves out of Afghanistan starting from next year, India has to worry whether 1996 can repeat itself in Afghanistan, when the Taliban, with the help of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), captured power from the Afghan Mujahideen in Kabul and enforced its rule.