Pakistan: Diplomacy vs Giving It All Away

A response to Spencer Ackerman’s opening gambit on Pakistan diplomacy [...]

Obama can’t control his Generals – Time for Congress to step in

If President Obama is too weak to preserve our civilian-military order, then Congress is obligated to enforce its constitutional authority over the power of war. [...]

Rethink Afghanistan: ISI and Pakistan Army Kill Americans

According to intelligence reports, Pakistan Army and ISI, their spy service, are directly involved with supporting, plotting, and carrying out attacks on American soldiers. [...]

General Kayani’s “Silent Coup” in Pakistan: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

What are the consequences of General Kayani’s 3 year extension for the US war in Afghanistan? [...]

Individual acts and the collapse of Pakistan

What led to the misery and instability in Afghanistan and Pakistan? And more importantly, what will end it? [...]

Pakistan’s “Strategic Depth” and endless war in Afghanistan

Pakistan’s national security policy of supporting terrorist groups and militias as proxies against India, known as “strategic depth,” is accelerating out of control, and they are either deliberately or inadvertently engineering a globalized religious war, a Clash of Civilizations. If pressure on congress is not increased, if the US remains on the slow, ambiguous timetable it is on now, it will be caught right in the middle of this clash. [...]

Afghanistan: Has Hamid Karzai Already Joined the Taliban?

The real endgame Karzai is working toward is that of a nominal, Pashtun-nationalist government in Kabul overlaying a Taliban-dominated countryside. Together they function not only as a crime family capable of exploiting Afghanistan’s resources but also as a highly effective proxy for Pakistan’s interminable battle against Indian influence. [...]