Egypt’s generals appear to have calculated that, for a number of reasons, Washington will not suspend military assistance and that, if it does, this is a bearable cost in order to achieve other more immediate, and important, interests.
Xi Jinping, who took charge of the Chinese Communist Party last year, has quickly proclaimed the “Chinese Dream”—or the great renewal of the nation—as the main mission for his decade-long rule.
Early parliamentary approval of the land boundary agreement with Bangladesh is in India’s interest. If the BJP sees itself as a champion of national security, it must support the bill.
The controversy that has been raging about Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi’s U.S. visa suggests that for the BJP, the United States is particularly important.
As India celebrates the launch of the Vikrant, the much delayed first indigenous aircraft carrier, Delhi is not the only one in Asia focused on the virtues of airpower at sea.
Delhi must move toward more responsible management of its borders with Pakistan and China.
To manage the threat of jihadist violence, U.S. counterterrorism architecture must be revised in a way that situates jihadist groups in their respective ecosystems, accounting for their potential transnational strike capabilities and connections without being blinkered by them.
Although U.S. Vice President Biden’s visit to India received relatively limited media attention in both India and the United States, it has led to another round of questions about the state of U.S.-India relations.
Facing China’s growing military power and Beijing’s increasingly assertive regional policy, Japan may have no option but to make marines a critical element of its new defense strategy.
India’s heavy-handed approach to Maoist violence in the central state of Chhattisgarh has only made the problem worse.