The Good, the Bad, and the Mercantilist: Inside Trump’s Transactional Pax Americana
by Muhammad Bilal Iftikhar Khan Donald Trump’s second term increasingly mirrors the erratic, deeply pragmatic persona of Tuco Benedicto Pacífico …
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Reality Under Siege: A Case Study in Information Warfare Against Pakistan
by Muhammad Bilal Iftikhar khan Pakistan is currently under a sophisticated information attack. In such an environment, vigilance is not merely a…
The Perfect Storm: Pakistan’s Strategic Crossroads in a Widening Middle East Crisis
Muhammad Bilal Iftikhar Khan The situation in the Middle East is deteriorating rapidly. Both Iran and the United States have adopted uncompromising…
The Unchanged Nature, Transformed Conduct: Warfare’s Shift from Centralization to Mosaic
While the essential nature of war, rooted in contestation of will, politics, and violence, remains constant, its conduct has undergone a profound t…
The Zionist World Order and the Battle for Perceptions: Pakistan's Stake
By Muhammad Bilal Iftikhar Khan 21/3/26 The Middle East and adjacent regions are passing through an exceptionally sensitive period, particularly fo…
The End of Easy Power: America, Iran, and China in a Changing Order
Muhmmad Bilal Iftikhar Khan 18-3-26 History is a wonderful subject. It reveals the mistakes of the past, the experiences of our predecessors, and…
The Implosion of Liberal Order: An Analysis
By MBI Khan 17-3-26 Something is fracturing in the liberal international order. But the primary architects of this fracture are not China or Rus…
The Pyrrhic Pursuit: Why Dominant Powers Fail Against Asymmetric Will
By: Muhammad Bilal Iftikhar Khan Clausewitz provides the most insightful lens through which to understand the current US and Israeli aggress…
Misreading Iran: How Pressure Strengthened Resistance
By : Muhammad Bilal Iftikhar Khan As the saying goes, “The finest quality of time is its capacity for change, evolution is the hidden face of time.” …
Epistemic Coloniality and the Future of Decoloniality in Pakistan
by Muhammad Bilal Iftikhar Khan P akistan won independence in 1947, nearly 78 years ago. The Muslim political struggle, which initially began as a d…
The Two-Front Entanglement: A Strategic Response to the India-IEA Nexus and the Durand Line Crisis.
The word "strategy" comes from “strategos”, which means "divine spark." This spark blesses one with the art of stratagem, a plan …
The Necessity of Pakistan's Response to IEA
P akistan's recent actions are a justified and necessary response to prolonged aggression. The conflict was initiated when the Taliban administ…