NEW DELHI: Despite its military might and cutting-edge technology, why did the United States suffer huge reverses in the wars it launched in Iraq and Afghanistan? Was it faulty planning, poor strategy or just plain refusal to adapt to changes on the ground? Retired U.S. Army colonel Christopher D. Kolenda, the first American to have […]Read More

New Delhi : Shortly before she emplaned for Islamabad after rounding off talks in Delhi, Wendy Sherman, US deputy secretary of state, made an important point to her hosts: “We have no interest in returning to the hyphenated India-Pakistan relationship. But we all need to know what is going on in Afghanistan, we all need […]Read More

NEW DELHI: The heightened Chinese belligerence against Taiwan has raised questions about timing. A confluence of events has made the CCP think this is the right time to threaten Taiwan into obedience, says Captain James E. Fanell (Retd), former Director of Intelligence and Information Operations for the U.S. Pacific Fleet. China tried to do it […]Read More

NEW DELHI: Visiting US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman underscored the pragmatic view in Washington on relations with China. “We will compete with China where we should, cooperate with China where it’s in our interests. We will challenge China where we must – where it undermines interests of ours, and our partners and allies, […]Read More

NEW DELHI: On ‘The Gist’, Akhil Bery, Director of South Asia Initiatives at the Asia Society Policy Institute in Washington, DC in analysis with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi. U.S. Deputy Secretary of State, Wendy Sherman has had talks in India on the India-US strategic partnership post the first in-person Quad summit, “security, […]Read More

NEW DELHI: On ‘The Gist’, Ambassador Federico Salas Lotfe, Mexico’s Envoy to India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka and the Maldives in discussion with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi. “It’s simple, not complicated,” the envoy says about the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement (USMCA) trade agreement. “Mexico is a gateway to the North American market” and […]Read More

NEW DELHI: Fresh from two summits, the first with US President Joe Biden, and the other with the Quad, Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched a broadside at Pakistan during his address at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). “Regressive thinking countries that are currently using terrorism as a political tool need to understand that terrorism […]Read More

NEW DELHI: For a grouping that has never issued a joint statement, the one produced at the end of the first Quad leaders summit in Washington DC, appeared to make up for the earlier absence. It struck all the right notes, whether on “free and open Indo-Pacific”, the “rules-based order” and “Asean centrality. “ Nothing […]Read More

NEW DELHI: As Prime Minister Narendra Modi attends two back to back summits in Washington, D.C., first with U.S. President Joe Biden and then the first in-person Quad leaders’ summit, former Indian Ambassador to the United States Arun K. Singh and StratNews Global Editor-in-Chief Nitin A. Gokhale discuss the key facets that will shape the […]Read More

NEW DELHI: Ahead of Prime Minister Modi’s first in person summit with US President Joe Biden, he got a public nudge on democracy and human rights from Vice President Kamala Harris, although it was conveyed in a manner that also reflected America’s domestic issues. She said: “It is imperative that we defend democratic principles and […]Read More
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