Copyright 2013 Jeff M. Smith Sat, 25 May 2013 20:40:03 -0400 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Jeff M. Smith :: Writings http://www.jeffmsmith.org smith@afpc.org (Jeff M. Smith) webmaster@pundicity.com en-us http://www.jeffmsmith.org/13248/frontier-tension-is-china-provoking-india Sun, 5 May 2013 09:00:00 EST Amid all the media focus on China's maritime territorial disputes with Japan, Vietnam and the Philippines, the world nearly forgot that China still hosts the world's largest outstanding land border dispute with the world's largest democracy, India. This... http://www.jeffmsmith.org/13201/china-and-pakistan-nuclear-collusion Tue, 2 Apr 2013 09:00:00 EST Last week the Chinese Foreign Ministry all but confirmed that it plans to sell its longtime ally Pakistan a new 1,000-megawatt nuclear reactor. The deal, reportedly signed in February, is a cause for concern in Washington. Though nominally a U.S. ally,... http://www.jeffmsmith.org/12502/wanted-a-post-military-pakistan Tue, 23 Oct 2012 09:00:00 EST The outrage seen on Pakistan's streets over the recent shooting of 14 year-old Malala Yousefzai is a welcome contrast to the silence that greets so many acts of violence there. The liberal lawmaker Salman Taseer, assassinated by his bodyguard in 2010 for... http://www.jeffmsmith.org/12303/a-forgotten-war-in-the-himalayas Fri, 14 Sep 2012 09:00:00 EST WASHINGTON: Next month marks the 50th anniversary of the 1962 Sino-Indian war. The event will be met with little fanfare in India, where China's surprise invasion still evokes feelings of outrage and betrayal. But the episode may be worth remembering for... http://www.jeffmsmith.org/11802/india-key-to-us-afghan-success Sat, 2 Jun 2012 09:00:00 EST With two important diplomatic victories last month, the Obama administration has laid the groundwork for the final chapters of the Afghan war. With a secret overnight flight to Kabul on May 1, U.S. President Barack Obama sealed an Enduring Strategic... http://www.jeffmsmith.org/11418/iran-a-test-for-us-india-relations Thu, 22 Mar 2012 09:00:00 EST By Jeff M. Smith and Sarah McKeever – Special to CNN March 22nd, 2012 In the aftermath of the landmark U.S.-India nuclear deal passed in 2008, Washington and New Delhi have deftly navigated the periodic irritants that plague all great power relations.... http://www.jeffmsmith.org/11387/afghanistan-seems-fixed-on-a-return-to-chaos Fri, 16 Mar 2012 09:00:00 EST Talk to civilian and military officials who've recently served in Afghanistan and you will be hard-pressed to find a single optimistic assessment of our current strategy there. The sober truth is, despite a decade of our military's best efforts,... http://www.jeffmsmith.org/10908/smith-on-research-mission-to-india Sat, 26 Nov 2011 09:00:00 EST On November 26, AFPC Kraemer Strategy Fellow Jeff M. Smith traveled to New Delhi to hold meetings with senior political and defense officials to conduct research for a book he is writing on Sino-Indian relations. Smith met with senior officials in the... http://www.jeffmsmith.org/10840/risky-business Thu, 10 Nov 2011 09:00:00 EST Risky Business By Jeff M. Smith Fall/Winter 2011 – Number 21 Syed Saleem Shahzad, Inside Al-Qaeda and the Taliban: Beyond Bin Laden and 9/11 (Pluto Press, 2011), 272 pp. $26.00. Tragic is the word most often used to describe the life of Syed Saleem... http://www.jeffmsmith.org/10841/the-pakistan-cauldron-conspiracy-assasination Tue, 8 Nov 2011 09:00:00 EST THE PAKISTAN CAULDRON: CONSPIRACY, ASSASSINATION AND INSTABILITYBy James P. FarwellForeword by Joseph D. DuffeyPotomac Books, $29.95, 360 pages November 8, 2011 As Pakistan has forced its way into America's national con sciousness over the past few... http://www.jeffmsmith.org/10415/us-takes-gloves-off-with-pakistan Sun, 25 Sep 2011 09:00:00 EST You could be forgiven for dismissing the latest diplomatic spat between the United States and Pakistan as just another hiccup in a long-estranged marriage. Trading accusations and navigating diplomatic crises has become a weekly affair for this deeply... http://www.jeffmsmith.org/10337/ex-detainees-revert-to-terrorism Sat, 17 Sep 2011 09:00:00 EST The following was printed in the Washington Post's Free For All section Saturday September 17, 2011 Ex-detainees revert to terrorism Ernesto Londono's Sept. 12 " The toll of war" front-page story ["For ex-detainee, present is far bleaker than the past"]... http://www.jeffmsmith.org/10907/smith-on-delegation-to-israel-and-west-bank-for Sat, 20 Aug 2011 09:00:00 EST In August 2011, AFPC Kraemer Strategy Fellow Jeff M Smith joined a delegation to Israel by U.S. national security leaders hosted by the American Jewish Committee. The delegation held meetings in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem with Israeli political, economic,... http://www.jeffmsmith.org/9531/friends-like-these-the-us-pakistan-strategic Tue, 3 May 2011 09:00:00 EST The following excerpts are from the full article posted on the World Politics Review website here: http://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/articles/print/8712 However, there remains a fundamental disconnect between this maturing view of Pakistan and the... http://www.jeffmsmith.org/9485/sino-indian-relations Tue, 26 Apr 2011 09:00:00 EST The effects of this game of brinksmanship being played by China, and to a lesser degree India, have so far been constrained by prudent and cautious political leaders in both capitals. However, the longer the aura of confrontation perpetuates, the more it...