Afghanistan

India’s outreach to the Taliban since 2021 reflects the tragic decisions all nations must face between bad and worse actors

On the 136th birthday of T.E. Lawrence, American foreign policy has much to learn from one of Britain’s greatest heroes

A strategically and morally incoherent approach to Afghanistan doomed America’s efforts there from the start

While the West is distracted by China and Russia, Islamic terrorism continues to metastasize around the world

The phrase ‘forever war’ conveys the ahistorical and exaggerated premise that, if a war is long, it is therefore unwinnable and not worth fighting. 

Viewed broadly, the war against Hamas is just one theater of Cold War II

Russia cannot be cast as an enemy of terrorism when it is so happy to forge ties with Hamas and the Taliban

30 years after Charles Krauthammer’s “Democratic Realism”, his pragmatic internationalism is needed more than ever

The story of democracy’s failure to take root in Afghanistan is directly related to its failure in Pakistan