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- The Don gets his phone calls returned
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Category Archives: Central Asia
Apaiser: Peace or Imminent U.S. Defeat, The Parisian Afghani’s & Power Blocks
About 40 miles north of Paris is the lovely town of Chantilly, a town known for horse training. This luxury town is now witnessing the imminent defeat of America throughout the AfPak region. How is this so? America has a … Continue reading
Posted in Afghanistan, Central Asia, China, Empire, Frontier, Identity Development, India, International Relations, Iran, Islam, Russia, Uncategorized
Tagged Afghan Buffer Zone, Afghan High Peace Council, Afghanistan, Ahmad Zia Massoud, Buffer State, Chantilly France, China, CIA, Ghairat Baheer, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, Haj Muhammed Muhaqeq, Hamid Karzai, Hazara Shiite, Hina Rabbani Khar, Hizb Islamic, India, Japan, Maldives, Mecca, Muhammed Yunus Qanuni, NATO, Neutrality, Northern Alliance, Pakistan, Proxies, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Tajikistan, Taliban, The Great Game, Tournament of Shadows, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan
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Dr. Brendan Simms: Strategery
I’ve always loved how the experts, the specialized mandarins and policy wonks ridiculed Bush for his malapropisms. The overly specialized development of precise language does have its flaws, if only exposed in the caldron of the mundane. Where else is … Continue reading
Posted in Arab Spring, Arnold Toynbee, Central Asia, International Relations, Islam, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Pakistan, Politics
Tagged Arnold Toynbee, Bismark, Brendan Simms, Bush, COIN Doctrine, Counterinsurgency, David Petraeus, de Gaulle, Idolization of Ephemeral Technique, Influence of Sea Power Upon History, Lord Alfred Thayer Mahon, Offshore Balancing, Realism, Roosevelt, Russian Revolution, Security Studies, Southwest Asia, Strategery, Three Victories and A Defeat: Rise and Fall of the First British Empire
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Structural Unemployment: The New Reality
Other than George Orwell, I can only think of two men who engagingly wrote about the social impact of superior technology on permanent unemployment: Milton Friedman & Peter Drucker. Dr. Drucker is a far more sophisticaed realist than the arcane … Continue reading
The New Russian Imperial Presidency
Why have the very best minds in American foreign policy chosen Russia as their primary study? It has to do with finding a specific culture that was forced to accommodate modernity. Given its vast geography, its multiple languages and its … Continue reading
Posted in Central Asia, International Relations, Islam, Russia
Tagged Central Asia, Chechen, Drug Trade, Hugo Chavez, Magnitsky, Mexico, Muscovy, Putin, Russia, Soviet Marxism, Venezuela
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Afgansty
Very few wars end the way they are originally envisioned. Perhaps this is what informed the old maximum ‘no plan survives contact with the enemy.’ The voluminous output on Afghanistan after September 2001 is staggering. Unless you follow Central Asian … Continue reading
Posted in Central Asia, Frontier, International Relations, Islam, Terrorism
Tagged A Long Goodbye, Afgantsy, Afghanistan, Afghanistan Communists, Andrei Gromyko, Artemy Kalinovsky, Cables from Kabul, Dmitry Ustinov, Hafizullah Amin, Khalq, Kremlin, Muhammad Taraki, Muhammed Daud, Muhammed Zahir Shah, Mujahideen, Parcham, Peoples Democratic party of Afghanistan, Rodric Braithwaite, Sheran Cowper-Coles, Soviet Withdrawal in Afghanistan, Soviets, Yuri Andropov
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Paradoxes Of Russian Orientalism
Russia has always had a ‘Janus’ like face, for it faces two directions simultaneously, both east and west. Its literature is tinged with western ruggedness. Just witness the similarities between Tolstoy and American 19th century frontier literature. Russian architecture faces … Continue reading
Posted in Central Asia, Islam
Tagged Kazan, Moscow, Russian Orientalism, Tolstoy Grades
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Obama: The AfPak Strategy, What Nixon & Kissenger Can Teach
If Nixon hadn’t committed political suicide in Watergate, he would have turned a very diplomatic war into a massive win given how the Tet offensive was a disaster for the North Vietnamese. Yes, the Marxist doctrine on insurgency was … Continue reading
Posted in Central Asia, Frontier, International Relations, Islam, Near East, Pakistan, Politics
Tagged Afpak, Arthur Herman, Hanoi, Indochina lessons, Kissenger, Nixon, Three insights to win in AfPak theatre, Vietnam, Vietnam lessons for USA
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The Great Game Begins
‘The Great Game’ otherwise known as ‘Tournament of Shadows’ was a deadly proxy fight between expansionist Russia and Imperialist England during the late 19th century. England was defensive regarding her position as guardian of India (what constituted today’s Pakistan, Iran, … Continue reading
Posted in Central Asia, Frontier, International Relations, Islam, Pakistan, Terrorism
Tagged Haqqani Network, ISI, Islam, Pakistan, Terrorism
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