Afghan War Blog

The U.S. Department of State's New Silk Road Strategy is long on talk but short on results. The United States is pushing for regional ...

In an endeavor which will surely impact Afghanistan, China is committing over $16 billion dollars to finance construction of infrastructure...

Now that Operation Enduring Freedom is approaching the end of mission (December 2014), the insurgents have been defeated, the terrorist sa...

The United States rolled out the New Silk Road Strategy (NSRS) a few years back as one of the ways of filling the void of a diminished Unit...

In 2011 the United States Department of State (under Secretary of State Clinton) rolled out the "New Silk Road Strategy" or NSR...

China is the worlds' second largest economic power. It has ambitions of establishing itself economically in Asia so that it can sustai...

The soon to be built railroads along the steppes of Asia will be the economic life line for China to Europe and beyond. While the United ...

The New Silk Road Strategy (NSRS) of the United States has had a rough start with its share of detractors. Here is another view of the NSRS...

Eugene Imas has penned an article in The Diplomat  entitled "The New Silk Road to Nowhere" published December 18, 2013. The thrust...

The Assistant Secretary of the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs of the Department of State recently addressed the Turkic American C...

Romania, as a troop-contributing-nation of ISAF, has been a staunch ally of the United States in the Afghan conflict. Currently Romania has...

Some observers of Central Asia are speculating on what the United States commitment to the region will be once the Afghan war concludes (or ...