Countries have now opened military combat roles to women in response to changing attitudes as seen in the case of Kurdish women fighting Islamic State.
Politicians must be made to understand that defence expenditure is like an insurance premium on national security, so defence budget needs to be boosted.
Since the election of President Duterte in the Philippines in May 2016, there has been a state sanctioned crackdown on the drug trade. Police has been accused of actively ordering extrajudicial killings, or ‘rub-outs’.
Dice have been found dating to the Bronze Age in various Harappan sites in present-day northwest India and throughout Pakistan. And it’s very possible that some had female owners.
This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.
The war in Afghanistan is seventeen years old. Not going well, no end in sight. A fertile ground for such ideas to sprout like weeds. The entire focus, with help from Pakistan and a dialogue sans preconditions with the Taliban, should be on finding a graceful exit.
The war in Afghanistan is seventeen years old. Not going well, no end in sight. A fertile ground for such ideas to sprout like weeds. The entire focus, with help from Pakistan and a dialogue sans preconditions with the Taliban, should be on finding a graceful exit.