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La Francia ha reagito malissimo, ed è comprensibile, all’annuncio del patto militare e tecnologico fra Stati Uniti, Australia e Regno Unito (AUKUS): non era stata informata e si è sentita tradita da Washington; ha perso una commessa…

 La scelta strategica del “pivot to Asia” ha subito una nuova accelerazione per iniziativa di Joe Biden, in coerenza con l’approccio ribadito anche nei giorni convulsi del ritiro afgano. L’America si concentra sulla grande sfida cinese e…

Strategic implications for Europeans? European leaders have little right to complain about American actions given the weakness of the European effort in Afghanistan over the past twenty years. Most Europeans were only present in…

As debates on the rout in Afghanistan grow, it is vital that the US and its allies take a hard look at what went wrong in their strategy, lest the same mistakes are repeated again. The campaign has been a long, difficult and unprecedented…

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…