Salman Rafi Sheikh
Middle East: A War That Was to End!
One of the most conspicuous aspects of Barak Obama’s election campaigns was the slogan of ending America’s longest military engagement---the so-called “war on terror” being fought in various parts of the world. However, instead of bringing...
Iraq and Afghanistan: the US Grand Strategy and Grand Failures
The success of the ISIS or ISIL in Syria and Iraq against the Iraqi military forces and the success of the Taliban in Afghanistan against Afghan forces apparently look two different cases; however, they have something in common which glaringly shows grand failure...
The US Adventurism in the Middle East and its Consequences
Since at least 1980, the US has been invading, occupying and bombing the Middle East. The rhetoric invented to give justification to this adventurism was and still is based upon notions of promoting democracy...