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The long-standing India-Nepal dispute over Susta, one of the most geographically and politically sensitive sections of the Nepal-India border, erupted in violent clashes on August 2 between Nepali villagers and Indian border security personnel. The latter had allegedly crossed into Nepali territory in Nawalparasi West and dismantled an under-construction embankment built by local residents to prevent flooding. Nepal’s Armed Police Force had to intervene to prevent further escalation. According to Nepali media, a similar iincident happened in June, when India’s Border Security Force personnel entered an embankment construction site in Susta Municipality-5 and pressured workers to halt the project, which…

China’s new Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress has been in effect for more than one month. Beijing claims the law will foster cohesion and protect the rights of minorities. In reality, it is already doing the opposite. One month in, the law is already harming Uyghurs and other ethnic groups and dissidents. Governments must take decisive action to challenge the law and protect diaspora communities before it is too late. As numerous sources have warned, the new law codifies a dramatic shift away from even the promise of regional autonomy, instead embedding Xi Jinping’s campaign of forced assimilation…

Bangladesh’s former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said she will return to her country in December this year, almost two and a half years after fleeing to India following violent student protests that culminated in the ouster of her government. In a message delivered online to Indian and foreign journalists in New Delhi on August 5, Hasina said her decision to return home was based on her desire to serve her country and its people. Acknowledging the possibility of imprisonment or even execution if she returned to Bangladesh, Hasina said that such apprehensions would not deter her. “My return, and…

Trax International Corporation is asking the U.S. Court of Federal Claims to direct the Army to reevaluate bids for mission support services at White Sands Missile Range — in part because the department allegedly misused AI to determine the contract award.Trax’s complaint, filed in late July, alleges that the Army used AI that hallucinated multiple times, creating the false impression that the company’s bid was weaker than rival Southwest Range Services’ successful bid of roughly $450 million. The Government Accountability Office denied Trax’s bid protest in May.The lawsuit claims that records the Army provided to GAO did not explain whether assigned strengths…

This article is a continuation of a series explaining the obstacles stopping Pakistan’s private sector from properly supporting the country’s defence requirements. In the previous analysis, Quwa examined how Pakistan’s procurement policies – namely the “no cost, no obligation” requirement – have largely undermined the incentive for private investors to raise production capacity and engage in research and development (R&D). In that article, this author stated: To put it briefly, “no cost, no obligation” means that if a private company responds to an armed forces requirement with an indigenous solution, the state will neither fund nor co-fund the development of…

Nearly five years after Taliban insurgents toppled the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, calls still ring out for a return to the rule of law. United Nations officials contend that Taliban governance “precipitated the collapse of the rule of law and judicial independence in Afghanistan.” Amnesty International pleads for the Taliban to “reinstate a formal constitutional and legal framework and the rule of law.” The idea that Afghanistan lost the rule of law in 2021 is compelling. It is also a fantasy. The United States, and the international community more broadly, abandoned rule of law in Afghanistan long before the Taliban…

Vincent, DScoop The CDAO team aims to anchor MSS as an operational cornerstone for command and control, but some sources questioned its early impacts. Source link

For most of the post-war era, power, legitimacy, and cooperation reinforced one another. American leadership underwrote security, open markets, and freedom of navigation. Democratic partnerships generated political trust. Universal institutions such as the United Nations, the World Trade Organization, and the nuclear nonproliferation regime provided common rules and legal legitimacy. Though imperfect, these three pillars generally worked in concert. That alignment has broken down. Security, economic governance, political legitimacy, and practical cooperation are no longer occurring in the same institutions or even among the same groups of states. I call this structural transformation the “unbundling of order.” The result is…

USNI News The U.S. Marine Corps’ new amphibious assault vehicles will receive jammers to defeat unmanned aerial systems through a program that is set to begin this fall Source link

After 17 years in exile, Tarique Rahman, then acting chairman of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), returned to Dhaka on December 25, 2025. By then, people’s political aspirations had changed significantly through a mass uprising and political transition following a long period of authoritarian rule.  In the aftermath of the July 2024 uprising, Bangladesh’s youth had moved to the center of politics. They not only led the movement that brought down Sheikh Hasina’s government, but also made up a significant portion of the electorate that would choose the next. The youth-led National Citizen Party (NCP) emerged in the political arena;…