The growing reluctance of America to risk fortune and blood to defend distant allies could end up making wars not only more likely, but unimaginably more lethal.
For Trump, the killing of IS second-in-command, al-Minuki, is an ad for the new counter-terrorism doctrine. But America needs to ask itself why taking the hammer to the problem has failed to demolish it.
Led by Türkiye and Saudi Arabia, and with Pakistan and Egypt as its providers of hard military power, the group seeks to push back against Iran’s power in the Persian Gulf.
Britain’s failure to secure the oil of Arabia in the 1950s was no misjudgement. The sun was setting on the Empire, and a new hegemon had emerged. Is another anarchy on the rise now?
Before Donald Trump, Saddam Hussein was seduced by the promise of an easy victory. In the aftermath of the bloody war, Iran ended up with profound influence in Shia-majority Iraq.
Learning from the Second World War, the world seemed to move toward making war subject to law and reason. These ends were, however, almost immediately subverted.
India’s crude import volumes remained largely unchanged in April-July, but higher oil prices sharply increased the import bill, with renewed US-Iran tensions raising the risk of another rise in costs.
ThePrint has learnt that more than one woman fighter pilot were involved in targeting military locations during the 87-hour conflict with Pakistan last year.
Forty years ago this week, ‘Khalistan Commando Force’ assassins were closing in on Gen Vaidya. So callous was the security of the just-retired Army chief that he was given a solitary police gunman
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