Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Fri, 02/01/2019 - 14:17
Paper No. 6488 . Dated 1-Feb-2019
By Dr Subhash Kapila
Afghanistan’s secure and stable future, however apparently uncertain in 2019, stands more endangered by United States imparting political legitimacy to Afghan Taliban by engaging them in official peace talks in Doha, and which political legitimacy the Afghan Taliban could not acquire by battling against the United States in Afghanistan for two decades.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Mon, 01/28/2019 - 04:28
Paper No. 28 Dated 28-Jan-2018
By Dr Subhash Kapila
Afghanistan’s preferred end-scenario in positive terms of a ‘Stable and Secure Afghanistan’ not materialising after seventeen years of US military embedment arises mainly from United States reluctance to impose deterrent punitive measures on Pakistan Army for its proxy continuous and sustained disruptive activities against the elected Government of Afghanistan.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Wed, 01/16/2019 - 10:34
Paper No.6480 Dated 16-Jan-2018
By Dr Subhash Kapila
The ‘China Threat ‘emerging in 2018 in comprehensive and diverse manifestations poses an existential crisis challenging not only the continuance of United States as the global unipolar Superpower but also targeted with intended consequences of prompting the United States to retreat into isolation within its continental confines.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Sun, 12/30/2018 - 14:56
Paper No. 6473 Dated 30-Dec-2018
By Dr Subhash Kapila
Afghanistan’s geostrategic location and presence of US Forces embedded in Afghanistan provide a sheet anchor for Indo Pacific security on its Western Periphery. Indo Pacific Security template has comprehensively emerged as crucial for US security in 2018 prompting rechristening of US Pacific Command as US Indo Pacific Command.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Sun, 12/09/2018 - 05:50
Paper No. 6468 Dated 9-Dec-2018
By Dr Subhash Kapila
Geopolitically in end-2018 the United States finds itself in a policy conundrum on Afghanistan primarily because of the inability of US policy planners to recognise that Afghanistan geographically flanked by Pakistan and Iran as Islamist Sates adversarial to United States complicates effective US embedment in Afghanistan for restoration of stability and security.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Sun, 12/02/2018 - 15:29
Paper No. 6465 Dated 2-Dec-2018
By Dr Subhash Kapila
Strategic denouement of the United States with Pakistan’s limited strategic utility to US interests was noticeable in end of last decade and has finally come to a head in end-2018 with emergence in Pakistan of PM Imran Khan carrying heavy baggage of Anti-Americanism and proclivity for enhanced relations with China-a country in confrontational mode with USA.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Sat, 11/24/2018 - 12:13
Paper No. 6463 Dated 24-Nov-2018
By Dr Subhash Kapila
China in end-2018 seems set firmly on a collision trajectory with the United States which has got accentuated with Chinese President Xi Jinping with his oversized strategic ambitions having met more than his match in US President Trump imbued with his ‘America First’ national aim brooking no Chinese challenge to dilute US global predominance.
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