theselongwars
Most popular · Most recent
-
What do Hindu nationalists think of the Taliban? Do they envy them?
Prompted by Instagram political memes, the author asks whether Hindu nationalists envy the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan and how they really feel about it.
-
30 days? That’s an excuse to run consulate shredders — Kabul’s government won’t last the week
As the Taliban box in Kabul, the author argues that US intelligence timelines were absurd, that the fall of northern cities has ended illusions of an orderly withdrawal, and that…
-
General Bajwa, please retire
Republished from 2019, the post argues that General Bajwa’s army-chief extension crowns a tenure of rolled-back civil liberties and media freedom, and that Imran Khan’s government abandoned its governing responsibilities…
