
The international community fought the Taliban insurgency for twenty years with blood and money, investing trillions of dollars and losing thousands of soldiers. However, Afghanistan’s Taliban swept to power in Kabul on August 15, 2021. Eighteen months after, Afghanistan is at a crossroads, facing poverty and unprecedented socioeconomic, political, governance, and security challenges. These challenges partially predate the
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Like a zombie, the argument that the global population must be urgently reduced to address the global environmental crisis keeps popping up – no matter how often the argument is put to rest. Take a speech at COP 27 by John Vidal (former environment editor at The Guardian), which made an impassioned plea on behalf of the overpopulationists
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It seems incredible to realize that it is a year since Russia invaded Ukraine. Old certainties have seemingly been upended; new realities are apparently emerging. What to make of it all? Three things to consider. First, the “West” is now more solidly united than ever around some basic propositions. The most important of these is that Russia cannot be
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One year after the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, no doubt remains about the difficulties the Russian army faced in Ukraine. From over-ambitious strategic goals seeking to topple the Ukrainian regime, logistical issues to supply overextended military advances on four different fronts, tactical failures, particularly in the field of combined arms and the
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