ये महफ़िल है ख़िरद-मंदों की महफ़िल (Ye mahfil hai khirad-mandon ki mahfil) यहाँ किस से कहूँ दिल की कहानी… (Yahan kis se kahun dil ki kahani...) There are rooms in which one is not rejected, only untranslated. The company is polished, often generous,
On the Longing for a Listener Who Truly Understands ये महफ़िल है ख़िरद-मंदों की महफ़िल, (Yeh mahfil hai khird mandoon ki mahfil)यहाँ किस से कहूँ दिल की कहानी… (Yahan kis se kahein dil ki kahani) - Minhaj Ali There are gatherings in
How Tehran May Deny Israel Victory Without Defeating It Frontline Strategy Special Issue on The Theory of War | 02 June 2026 “The first creature of God, in the works of the days, was the light of the sense; the last was the light of reason.” — Francis Bacon, “Of Truth” For
Palestine, Al-Aqsa, the Abraham Accords and the Age of Licensed Impunity Colonel Maqbool Shah (Veteran) | 01 June 2026 Power can dominate bodies for a time. It can flatten neighbourhoods, redraw military lines, rename conquest as security, and call displacement “humanitarian relocation”. It can arm one state to the teeth while
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Absorption, Retaliation and Strategic Endurance in the US-Israel-Iran War - A Campaign Study for Frontline Strategy Digest | 25 May 2026 “War is not merely a political act, but also a real political instrument.” — Carl von Clausewitz, On War Editor’s Note The test of a campaign is not the violence
Special Issue | 24 May 2026 Greenland is again at the centre of world politics, but the real story is not the dramatic question of whether the United States can “buy” or annex the island. That language is useful for headlines, but misleading as strategy. The deeper contest is over something
Kaplan’s Prophecy and the World That Came True A Tribute to the Genius of Robert D. Kaplan FRONTLINE STRATEGY DIGEST | Strategic Analysis · 22 May 2026 EDITOR’S NOTE: Robert D. Kaplan published The Coming Anarchy in 2000. Twenty-six years on, this essay — written by our Founding Editor — employs Kaplan’
America’s New Counterterrorism Doctrine and the Politics of Threat The new U.S. Counterterrorism Strategy is not a routine bureaucratic update. It is a doctrinal turn. It shifts American counterterrorism away from the post-9/11 centre of gravity — al-Qaeda, ISIS, jihadist networks, Middle Eastern safe havens, and foreign training
Civilizational Conflict, Resource Wars, Maritime Chokepoints and the Remaking of World Order A Strategic Working Paper by Colonel Maqbool Shah (Veteran) Version 4 Updated: 19 May 2026 Editor’s Note The argument developed in this essay has troubled me for more than three decades. I first read Samuel Huntington’s
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US strikes have degraded but not eliminated Iran's nuclear infrastructure. The strategic paradox of escalation now demands clear analysis.