Salman Rafi Sheikh
The US Defense Budget: A Recipe of Protracted War and Conflict
The US president Obama’s demand for a base defense budget of $534 billion in 2016, exceeding by $35 billion the mandatory across-the-board reductions known as sequestration, along with an additional $51 billion-- an increase of 6 percent from last year...
China is deepening its foothold in Africa
No country has so rapidly and so successfully penetrated in Africa in the last two decades or so as China has. Not only has China managed to take over economic ‘supervision’ of Africa, but has now started to deploy its military in the region too. China may be Africa's...
Myth and Reality of the US War against ISIL
A lot of official statements, media reports and analysis about the US led war against ISIL are coming out these days for public consumption, glorifying the ‘success’ of the US airstrikes in defeating and pushing back the ‘enemy.’ The narrative...
