Iran-Saudi Detente Runs Through Pakistan – Javad Zarif Just Proved It

Iran-Saudi Detente Runs Through Pakistan – Javad Zarif Just Proved It

Iran’s influential Foreign Minister Javad Zarif has concluded a three day visit to Pakistan. While many international eyes have been focused on the war in Syria and Britain’s new cold war with Russia, an incredibly positive development has occurred in Islamabad. Two countries that between the 1950s and 1970s were close allies, Iran and Pakistan, look…

Indian Army Says Its Equipment is Obsolete and Not Ready for War
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Indian Army Says Its Equipment is Obsolete and Not Ready for War

In its direst warning to India’s Parliament yet, the Indian Army’s top brass stated that deep budgetary cuts have severely eroded its capabilities to fight a war. “The budget of 2018-19 has dashed our hopes and most of what has been achieved has actually received a little setback,” Vice-Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Sarath…

With Mike Pompeo, Trump is Heading into Dangerous Waters

With Mike Pompeo, Trump is Heading into Dangerous Waters

On Tuesday, US President Donald Trump fired Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and appointed the hawkish CIA chief, Mike Pompeo, to replace him. Tillerson, who’d come to government service as the CEO of Exxon-Mobil, one of the largest energy companies in the world, often butted heads with Trump’s free-wheeling, chaotic style of decision-making regarding foreign policy….