A sizable population in Pakistan and hopefully people in the same proportion in India wish for peace in the region. Aman ki Asha is a reflection of their true desires. To make it a reality a lot of efforts have to be made at different levels of which the most important would be commercial links [...]
When President Obama explained his decision to send 30,000 additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan to support General Stanley McChrystal’s new counterinsurgency campaign, he left a key question unanswered: Will this be enough to achieve U.S. strategic ends in Af-Pak?
U.S. military counterinsurgency doctrine calls for a security force ratio of 20 to 25 counterinsurgents for every [...]
In the famous Peter O’Toole film “Night Of The Generals”, the record-keeper in Paris tells Omar Sharif (acting as German officer investigating murders of prostitutes in Nazi-occupied Warsaw and Paris): “Major, why do you bother…All Generals are murderers!”
That was a film dialogue. In real life Generals are not murderers. They are expected to carry out [...]
While the Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen hinted on Taliban’s effort to gain access to nuclear weapons for killing large bulk of Americans, the US and Nato allies in Afghanistan are trying to reach out to the second tier of the Taliban leadership.
In a briefing paper for President Barack Obama on [...]
