By Anwaar Hussain
Robert Michael Gates, the 22nd United States Secretary of Defense, spoke at a press conference recently in Kabul.  “There is still much fighting ahead, and there will assuredly be more dark days….but there is reason to be hopeful that Afghan and coalition forces can rout the hardest elements of the Taliban and establish [...]

By Anwaar Hussain
Way up on the shadowy ladder in the dark world of spooks comes the name of Mossad.
Responsible mainly for intelligence collection and covert operations, including paramilitary activities, it is one of the three institutions in the Israeli Intelligence Community. The other two are known as Aman and Shin Bet  tasked for military intelligence [...]

by Farhat Taj
There is a deep abyss between the perceptions of the people of Waziristan, the most drone-hit area and the wider Pakistani society on the other side of the River Indus. For the latter, the US drone attacks on Waziristan are a violation of Pakistani’s sovereignty. Politicians, religious leaders, media analysts and anchorpersons express [...]

By Anwaar Hussain
President Obama’s decision to surge the troops’ level in Afghanistan is understandable. That is the only thing America can do in fact. They cannot just pack their bags and go home. They are losing the war with the present troop strength. All other conventional tactics have been tried out. The troop surge in [...]

By Anwaar Hussain
Strange title, eh? Wait a bit please.
Hoh is the surname of a former Marine who fought in Iraq and became a diplomat in a Taliban stronghold in Afghanistan and who on September 10 this year resigned in a high-profile protest of the Afghan war. In so doing, Matthew Hoh became the first ever [...]

By Joe Palmer
East Africa: In 1966 the U S Agency for International Development built a residential school for the training of teachers in Somalia near the city of Afgoi on the Shabelle River a dozen miles inland from the capital city, Mogadishu. The construction contract was given to a company in Nairobi, Kenya. There are [...]

by Milton Bearden
As the United States settles into its eighth year of military operations in Afghanistan, and as plans for ramping up U.S. troop strength are under way, we might reflect on an observation made by the Chinese military sage, Sun Tzu, about twenty-five hundred years ago:
In military campaigns I have heard of awkward speed [...]