Infrastructure that carries a nation’s data, finance and emergency communications is strategic infrastructure. We would not hand over a port, a power grid or a strategic petroleum reserve on the strength of
Donald Trump stated that the United States would “obliterate” Iran’s power plants if the Strait of Hormuz is not opened before the 48-hour deadline. Iran responded: “If Iran’s fuel and energy infrastructure
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Ownership of Trincomalee Port was highly contested by the Dutch, French, and British as a gateway to the Bay of Bengal during the 1700s and 1800s. The famous seafarer Vice Admiral Horatio
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For more than six decades, the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) stood as a rare constant in an otherwise volatile relationship between India and Pakistan. Signed in 1960, it survived wars, military crises,
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With the Iran war overshadowing life in the Arab world, water and food have become two resources in severe shortage in this oil-rich region—things that all the money they possess cannot buy
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Britain’s decision, reported by Reuters, to let the United States use RAF Fairford and Diego Garcia for strikes linked to the Iran crisis is being sold by London as a narrow act
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The shadow of Dr. Yunus’s seventeen-month mob rule lingers, and under new Prime Minister Tarique Zia, Washington has further tightened its chains, imposing its will and systematically stripping Bangladesh of its hard-won
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People frequently assume that wars are won or lost on the battlefield. Armies advance, enemies retreat, and one side ultimately wins. However, modern wars rarely end in that manner. They end when
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The Iranian missile attack on the joint U.S./UK military base in Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean on March 21, 2026, is a threat to Europe, Asia, and Africa. A hub for
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For decades, Pakistan has been described as “strategically located.” The phrase is convenient, but it understates the reality. Pakistan does not simply occupy space between regions-it sits within the fault lines that
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Bangladesh emerged in 1971 with the promise of democracy, equality, and self‑determination. The 1972 Constitution enshrined those ideals, and the first general election in 1973 handed Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s Awami League an
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Why didn’t Premadasa queue up when Saddam was killed? ‘All this is because of Trump…’‘He managed the country beautifully…’‘Oh… what can the government do?’ ‘During Gota’s time, oil was lost because of
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A few days ago, while working on this mini podcast series, I found myself scrolling through what looked like a very typical “weekend recommendation” post—until I realized none of it was typical
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At approximately 9 p.m. on 16 March 2026, an airstrike hit the Omid Addiction Treatment Hospital in Kabul, a 2,000-bed drug rehabilitation facility near the city’s international airport, destroying large sections of
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Less than three weeks into the aggression against Iran since February 28, which the US President Donald Trump called a “little excursion”, the war is assuming a scenario that is the exact
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It is known that Iran and Israel have been sworn enemies over the last several decades, and this is not the first time that both countries have fought in a war. However,
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