Fair and Unfair Play: Regulating Means and Methods of Warfare
Do we have any detailed and documented rules of military engagement today? Yes. Are these rules regularly followed? Mostly not. Does this mean that...
China employs ‘nuclear cabbage’ strategy for dominance in South China Sea
South China Sea is back in news, this time triggered by the most unlikely source. Vietnam has banned ‘Barbie’ movie over map of South...
Glimpses of an endgame in Ukraine
The problem with the war in Ukraine is that it has been all smoke and mirrors. The Russian objectives of “demilitarisation” and “de-Nazification” of...
UK political parties are getting the jitters over green policies
LONDON — Environmentalists cautioned Britain’s main political parties on Sunday not to water down their climate change promises after a special election result widely...
Chatbot Honeypot: How AI Companions Could Weaken National Security
This past spring, news broke that Massachusetts Air National guardsman Jack Teixeira brazenly leaked classified documents on the chat application Discord. His actions forced...
Can Threads replace Twitter as Washington’s political watercooler?
A week after Meta launched Threads, a Twitter doppelgänger disguised as Instagram-but-for-text, Washington’s professional posters are watching it closely, curious to see whether it...
U.N: Status quo on Korean Peninsula ‘alarming and unsustainable’
Unity on the U.N Security Council in the face of missile launches by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) is essential to ease...
Far-Left Protests Don’t Come Out of Nowhere, Despite What the News Tells You
As far-right political groups gain power in Europe, governments are tested in their tolerance for protest and outright violence. In Germany, a recent court...
ASEAN Foreign Ministers Hold Key Regional Talks with Myanmar Topping Agenda
JAKARTA — Foreign ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and partner countries are gathering in Jakarta for a series of meetings, with...
Terror groups in Africa, a breeding ground for attacks in the West
Pundits have been warning that terror groups in Africa have found a breeding ground for recruiting militants in the huge refugee camps scattered around...