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Posted at Brownpundits.
https://www.brownpundits.com/2019/04/23/podcasts-by-major-amin-india-pakistan-proxy-wars/
Pakistan and India, the fog of war..
https://www.brownpundits.com/2019/03/03/india-and-pakistan-the-fog-of-war/
We have a couple of podcasts on this topic. The latest is here https://t.co/Vhp9e99Enc
A review of Directorate S from Major Amin, now up at Brownpundits.
https://www.brownpundits.com/2019/02/07/review-directorate-s/
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What we have is an interesting narrative but no...
Major Amin, an observer with far more local knowledge than me, has some thoughts on the Afghan defeat negotiations..
https://www.brownpundits.com/2019/02/03/the-last-hurdle-to-afghan-peace/
I had a few random (very pedestrian and expected) thoughts on this topic https://www.brownpundits.com/2019/02/01/afghanistan-exit-to-chaos/
a long (and excellent) essay from Dr Hamid Hussain, originally written in 2003, still relevant.
The full text is here.
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My review is up at Brownpundits
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India’s wars by Air Vice Marshal Arjun Subramaniam is a history of the wars (external wars, not counter-insurgencies) fought by the Indian army from...
This is the 51st anniversary of the 6 day war (the first news I remember reading in a newspaper; I was 5.5 and could only read the headline, but I do remember reading that), so I thought I would post...
I wrote a review of Peter Frankopan's "The Silk Roads" a few months ago. It is up at Brownpundits.
...This is a frustrating, though still useful, book. Historian Peter Frankopan’s title claims...
I had a post about the Kargil war a while ago at Brownpundits
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..Back in 1999 I thought that Musharraf should have been dismissed and prosecuted for his role in the affair, but I also...
My review of Mohammed Iqbal's book about the reconstruction of religious thought in Islam is at Brownpundits..
.. Historical references are cherry picked and whatever theory he is proposing is...
Since a lot of people are talking about Dr Peterson these days, my review of his book may be on interest to some..
The full review is here.
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.. His writing style is conversational,...
According to anecdotal reports, General Shahid Aziz disappeared about a year ago and there are rumors he has been killed (most likely in Syria, maybe in Afghanistan) while indulging a passion for...
can anyone explain why so many missiles struck just 3 targets? and why the reported damage is relatively low? were a number shot down enroute (as the Russians are claiming)? All in all, it looks like...
My review of "Enter the Dragon" is up at Brownpundits.
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Russel Spurr was a British-Australian journalist who spent most of his life reporting from East Asia (20 years in Hong Kong),...
My review of Stephen Kotkin's "Stalin, Waiting for Hitler" is up on brownpundits.
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Stephen Kotkin is a historian who has written several outstanding books on Russian history and is...
Major Amin's detailed analysis of operation Grand Slam, Pakistan's attempt at strategic decision in Kashmir in 1965.
http://www.brownpundits.com/2018/02/17/operation-grand-slam-1965-war/
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Extracts from Pakistani military historian Major Agha Humayun Amin's history of the 1947-48 kashmir war between India and Pakistan (from a military history POV, not focused on the political rights...
My review of Yuri Slezkine's great book about the Russian revolution is up on Brownpundits.
http://www.brownpundits.com/2018/02/09/review-the-house-of-government/
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“On China” is a curious mixture of history, geopolitical analysis and self-serving memoir (concentrating mostly on the last two elements). Kissinger reviews some of the...
Posted at Brownpundits.
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The history of the Second World War continues to offer up new and fascinating details as archives are opened and dying old men occasionally decide to tell the...
I just finished "The Silk Roads; a new history of the world" by Peter Frankopan.
My review is at Brownpundits.com
This is a frustrating, though still useful, book. Historian Peter...
Cixin Liu's trilogy is making news in the science fiction world. My reviews
The Three Body Problem
The Dark Forest
Death's End
I am reviewing "The Fleet at Flood Tide" by James Hornfischer.
This is a book that does some things really well, but omits others for no rhyme or reason and is also taken down a notch by the...