Myanmar’s conscription law threatens to derail the country’s long-term development across economic, social, political, and demographic dimensions. The enforced draft is accelerating a mass copyright of youth and skilled workers, leading to a critical brain drain. With 3.7 million already migrated to Thailand by 2023, the loss of human capital p

The ‘association’ at two ends, between the enemy and the treasonable, demands a multi-pronged response. No amount of lethal kinetic action against Pakistan will serve India’s purpose unless it is backed by and accompanied by hunting down the rebellious leaders, and squeezing the potential support base that terrorism from across the border see

In line with Soviet information warfare practices, Russia and North Korea have long denied that North Korean troops are fighting against Ukraine. But last week, state-owned media organs in Moscow and Pyongyang officially acknowledged that North Korean combat formations have been operating in the Russian region of Kursk. This change might indicate t

While OPC had some spectacular successes, it also had its failures. More importantly, in the field it ran the risk of intelligence fratricide as agent handlers from the intelligence arm of the CIA, OSO, crashed into OPC agent handlers. Secrecy between the two offices as well as with US embassies made it difficult to run clandestine operations. By 1

In the past six months, two different opinion pieces, here and here, have raised the possibility of  Services (OSS). These recommendations are by no means new. Over the past 80 years, there have been multiple efforts to revive the OSS or, at the very least, to revive the ethos of this special operations organization that served in World War II fro