Perils of privatising the war in Afghanistan on October 28, 2018The US military intervention in Afghanistan is currently in its seventeenth year. Together with the Iraq war and an array of “War on Terror” operations spanning the globe, such military engagement has cost the United States dearly in both blood and treasure. By one estimate, the United States’ post-9/11 military campaigns have cost the country […]
Downside of American contemporary grand strategy on October 17, 2018Donald Trump in his recent address to the United Nations General Assembly hinted at breaking away from the grand strategy that has kept US afloat as a world leader since World War II. He announced, “We will never surrender America’s sovereignty to an unelected, unaccountable global bureaucracy,” and “Sovereign and independent nations are the only […]
What will make America great again? on September 27, 2018US incumbent president Donald Trump’s pre and post election slogan of ‘make America great again’ is indicative of presumptions on two counts: one, America was great earlier; two, it lost its greatness that Trump promised to regain. Let’s first examine the American rise to greatness both on internal as well as on international fronts. On […]