I’ve just finished this spring’s reissue of Steve Coll’s On the Grand Trunk Road:A Journey Into South Asia. Written starting twenty years ago in the dying days of the Cold War and long before the “World was Flat,” Coll was…
Afghanistan, Benazir Bhutto, China, FATA, Insurgency, NWFP, Pakistan, Pashtunistan, South Asia, Taleban, UAV
A Lament for Pakistan
I have a piece this week on the Huffington Post on where Pakistan was and where it is or could be going. Read it here…
Today’s Military (The American Kind)
General John Abizaid, the former Commander of U.S. Central Command spoke at NYU’s Center for Law and Security on the primary challenges the United States Armed Forces face today and in the near term along with a host of experts…
The Islamist Revolution
I attended an event with Alastair Crooke, author of Resistance: The Essence of the Islamist Revolution and veteran EU Middle East diplomat at the New America Foundation here in Washington. The event was webcast on the The Washington Note and Crooke’s presentation was…
Afghanistan, Benazir Bhutto, FATA, Insurgency, NWFP, Pakistan, Pashtunistan, South Asia, Taleban, UAV, Washington D.C.
Pakistan’s Troubled Frontier
On April 15th, Jamestown hosted and exhaustive conference on the subject of Pakistan’s Northwest Frontier Province and its Federally Administered Tribal Areas. There’s too much else to include for the number of people gathered and the all the topics covered under…
This Week’s Agenda
I will be in Washington this week attending Pakistan’s Troubled Frontier: FATA and the Future of NWFP at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and then I will be at The Islamist Revolution with Alastair Crooke over at the New…