Central Asia

Quando il 2 gennaio decine di persone sono scese in piazza a Zhanaozen, una città della regione di Manghistau, nell’ovest del Kazakistan, di circa 150 mila abitanti, per protestare contro l’aumento del prezzo del GPL, quasi nessuno si…

Cargo aircrafts are being unloaded; track and wheeled armored vehicles equipped with electronic warfare systems are advancing towards the old capital of Kazakhstan; military personnel are giving out orders. It is January 9th and the 2,500…

During the Afshar Operation in 1993, when Afghanistan was ruled by competing warlords and after a decade of mass displacement and a complete collapse of the state, the late Tajik military commander Ahmad Shāh Masʿūd was among those involved…

Si contano i costi umani ed economici del ritiro americano e occidentale dall’Afghanistan, certo. Ma la vittoria talebana ha nondimeno implicazioni ideologiche travolgenti: scoperchia la crisi del vecchio ordine mondiale davanti…

Smoke and errors It is not quite the First Afghan War redux, but the victory of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan is not far short of it. On 1 January 1842, following an ‘agreement’ between Major-General William Elphinstone,…