Michael Hughes

President Trump’s egocentric announcement to withdraw the US from the Iran nuclear accord may represent one step towards a larger goal within his administration of effecting regime change in…

A new ICC probe could find the US is responsible for human rights violations in Afghanistan. The court will also look at Afghan forces and the Taliban.

President Barack Obama left his successor a drone program of unprecedented geographic size and scope that affords the executive broad legal authorities to conduct targeted assassinations…

Surreal might be one word to describe the scene at the Hilton hotel in Midtown Manhattan on Wednesday where Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was openly contemplating a hypothetical situation…

French military theorist Roger Trinquier famously posited that the sine qua non of victory against an insurgency is the unconditional support of the local populace. One of the most critical…

The White House initially intended to unveil its grand strategy for Afghanistan in mid-July after President Donald J. Trump allegedly gave U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis “carte blanche”…

President Donald J. Trump has reportedly been at odds with his military chiefs over the way forward in Afghanistan because he is reluctant to waste more money on a war that the United States…

Soviet mining experts in the 1980s discovered that Afghanistan was rich in natural resources such as iron, copper, gold, cobalt, rare earth metals, and lithium, but the data lay hidden until…

Warlordism grew to new heights in Afghanistan after the CIA channeled around $1 billion to malign actors for their help during the post-9/11 Taliban takedown. To make matters worse, the…

To say the U.S. does not have a stellar track record when it comes to Afghan politics would be an understatement for the ages, yet some American lawmakers think a “diplomatic surge” is in…

Historians often quip that Afghanistan is a graveyard of big empires. From Alexander the Great to the British Empire and the Soviet Union, major powers collapsed as soon as they withdrew…