Qamar Bashir

For more than a century, global economic and geopolitical power has revolved around energy. Coal powered industrialization; oil transformed transportation, warfare and international commerce; natural…

Nearly six months later, President Donald Trump is no longer speaking confidently about unconditional victory. He is talking about negotiations and the danger of an…

The Makkah Joint Defence Agreement signed by Saudi Arabia, Türkiye and Pakistan is being described as a Muslim version of NATO. Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan…

The latest restrictions imposed on international journalists in Pakistan have once again exposed a deeper crisis of governance. Under the new guidelines, foreign correspondents and…

The Iran war began with the expectation that overwhelming American and Israeli firepower would bring Tehran to its knees within days. Instead, the conflict has…

Former United Nations weapons inspector and U.S. Marine Corps intelligence officer Scott Ritter describes the outcome of the Iran War bluntly: “We lost. Game, set,…

  The war against Iran may ultimately be remembered not as the conflict that restored American and Israeli dominance, but as the turning point that…

For nearly two weeks, the United States has presented the renewed air campaign against Iran as a demonstration of overwhelming military superiority. President Donald Trump,…

Recognizing China’s rapid rise, successive American administrations—Republican and Democratic alike—have fundamentally reoriented U.S. national security strategy. Although they have differed in tactics, they have shared…

Manufacturing, Technology, Infrastructure and the New Global Balance of Power   China’s emergence as the United States’ principal strategic challenger did not occur through territorial…