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India performed creditably in the May 2025 India–Pakistan conflict: Stimson Centre analyst
By P.K. Balachandran/Daily News Colombo, January 6 – Despite losing some aircraft during the brief but intense India–Pakistan conflict in May 2025, India ultimately performed creditably, striking deep into Pakistan with missiles and drones while largely defending itself against Pakistani retaliation, according to Christopher Clary,...
Four interlocking objectives of Trump’s invasion of Venezuela
By P.K.Balachandran/Daily Mirror Colombo, January 6 — The United States’ invasion of Venezuela in early January 2026, culminating in the overthrow of President Nicolás Maduro’s left-wing government, was driven by four interlocking objectives: (1) installing a compliant regime in Caracas; (2) forcefully reasserting American primacy...
The many questions raised by Trump’s action in Venezuela
By P.M.Amza/DailyFT Colombo, January 6 – President Donald Trump’s address on 3 January announcing the “arrest” of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro marks one of the most consequential and controversial assertions of power in contemporary international relations. Whether framed as law enforcement, counter-narcotics action, or geopolitical...
India performed creditably in the May 2025 India-Pakistan war, says Stimson Centre analyst
By P.K. Balachandran Colombo, January 3 –Though India lost some aircraft in the four-day India-Pakistan air war in May 2025, it struck deep into Pakistan with missiles and drones while defending itself well against similar attacks by Pakistan, says Christopher Clary, a Fellow at Stimson...
Deep fissures in Trump’s MAGA camp
US President Donald Trump’s Make America Great Again (MAGA) camp is now a house divided on racial, religious and doctrinal lines.
Trump cuts the clutter in US National Security Strategy
By P.K. Balachandran/Counterpoint Colombo, December 22 – US President Donald Trump’s National Security Strategy 2025, released by the White House last month, gives the overall strategic framework as well as guidelines for specific areas of concern. Trump states that “strategy” begins from an accurate assessment...
UNSC was a major battle ground for Bangladesh’s liberation
Bangladesh’s war of independence was fought on the ground, in the diplomatic arena across world capitals, and in the UN Security Council, with all three venues seeing intense action.
Donald Trump’s War and Peace
By Veeragathy Thanabalasingham Colombo, December 14 – It is unavoidable that the title of this article should remind its readers of the famous Russian writer Leo Tolstoy’s novel “War and Peace”. It is a historical fiction that follows the lives of five Russian aristocratic families...
What the new US National Security Strategy means for Sri Lanka
By P M Amza/Colombo Telegraph Colombo, December 14 – The release of the new United States National Security Strategy (NSS) marks a decisive shift in how Washington intends to navigate an increasingly fragmented world. For decades, US strategies—whether Republican or Democratic—tended to stress global leadership,...
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