Salman Rafi Sheikh
13.02.2015
The US Defense Budget: A Recipe of Protracted War and Conflict
The US president Obama’s demand for a base defense budget of $534 billion in 2016, exceeding by $35 billion the…
03.02.2015
China is deepening its foothold in Africa
No country has so rapidly and so successfully penetrated in Africa in the last two decades or so as China…
29.01.2015
Myth and Reality of the US War against ISIL
A lot of official statements, media reports and analysis about the US led war against ISIL are coming out these…
24.01.2015
Qatar’s ‘larger than life’ Geo-Political Stretch
In traditional frameworks of analysis of foreign policies and power potential of states, geography and ‘size’ of the states are…
21.01.2015
Contours of the “Oil War”
Saudi Arabia’s oil minister Ali al-Naimi is reported to have said that the falling oil prices would help stabilize global…
23.12.2014
Russia’s Turn towards Afghanistan
Contrary to popular perceptions about Russia's lack of interest in Afghanistan, she has been gradually and imperceptibly making its headway into…
17.12.2014
New Middle East Plan: The US preparing for another Disaster
Nothing would seem more absurd than watching the US making its ‘intentions’ clear about dismantling the ISIL’s strongholds in Iraq…
09.12.2014
Israel: In Quest for Uncontested Hegemony
While the Arabs certainly make up 20 percent of Israel’s total population, they continue to face Israeli atrocities committed under…
05.12.2014
ISIL: The Story of the Middle Eastern Conquest
One of the most troubling questions today is how the ISIS emerged and expanded in so fast a manner as…
29.11.2014
Crisis in the Middle East and the Crisis of Making of New Alliances
It was not so long ago when the world was analyzing the probability of a US-Iran conflict over the latter’s…
18.11.2014
Middle East: A War That Was to End!
One of the most conspicuous aspects of Barak Obama’s election campaigns was the slogan of ending America’s longest military engagement---the…
29.10.2014
Iraq and Afghanistan: the US Grand Strategy and Grand Failures
The success of the ISIS or ISIL in Syria and Iraq against the Iraqi military forces and the success of…
