13+ min ago   (925+ words) Bangladesh’s planned J-10CE purchase could significantly strengthen its airpower while tying that capability more closely to Chinese weapons, support networks and supply chains. This month, multiple media outlets reported that Bangladesh is moving toward one of its largest defense procurements…...

1+ hour, 32+ min ago   (645+ words) The Turkish leader may find himself in more trouble just because of his diplomatic successes. Egypt, Israel and the ideal of the Arab Risorgimento (resurgence) are in his path. If there is one thing that cannot be downplayed, it is…...

23+ hour, 10+ min ago   (1372+ words) The war propaganda machine in the US is a ceaseless, multifaceted contraption that includes legacy media, the educational system and the entertainment industry. A nation does not eviscerate tens of millions of “enemy” civilians without first laying a meticulous foundation…...

1+ day, 31+ min ago   (594+ words) There is, once again, something both depressing and hilarious about Washington’s search for a Trump foreign-policy doctrine. It isn’t there. It was never there. And the fact that so many serious people keep looking for it says more about the…...

22+ hour, 22+ min ago   (1345+ words) This article first appeared in Pacific Forum and is republished with permission. Read the original here. There are multiple interpretations of where the India-China relationship stands today. Is there a thaw? Are the two sides gradually moving toward a reset?...

1+ day, 19+ hour ago   (1023+ words) Bangladesh has spent 55 years avoiding military alliances. It may now be contemplating the rather more complicated business of joining one. Humaiun Kobir, the state minister for foreign affairs, said this week that Bangladesh had expressed interest in the Mecca Joint…...

3+ day, 14+ hour ago   (818+ words) Dr. Norman A. Bailey passed away after a long illness on August 18 in Greensboro, NC. He was 95. A distinguished public servant and teacher, Bailey played a leading role in the Reagan administration’s strategy to defeat the Soviet Union in the Cold…...

3+ day, 14+ hour ago   (1060+ words) When Myanmar’s military bombed a Buddhist monastery during a meditation retreat this month, reportedly killing at least 14 people, most of them elderly civilians, it should have reinforced a basic conclusion: the junta cannot be treated as a normal governing entity....

3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (1099+ words) Ukraine celebrated this year’s independence day on August 24 in the presence of key allies and amid the unfolding of another major corruption scandal. It all started when Mykhailo Fedorov, Ukraine’s defense minister until his dismissal as part of a government…...

3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (1071+ words) Canadian Prime Minister Carney has announced the suspension of Canada-United States trade talks, citing “last-minute changes” made by American negotiators that “were unfair, uneconomic and called into question the reliability of any deal.” Within hours, President Donald Trump’s new Section…...