The removal of McChrystal: In line with the Obama doctrine?

By John Schneider Special to CSMS Magazine The removal of Gen. Stanley McChrystal as the US commander in Afghanistan, although endorsed by political pundits and politicians on both sides of the isle, could merely be a simple affair of political correctness....

A conflagration looms in south Asia as Pakistan gears towards protracted warfare

CSMS Magazine staff writers With more than 1.5 million people on the move in Northwest Pakistan, fleeing a blistering offensive against the Taliban and an attempt to raise more than a billion dollars for a sustained war, the regime in Islamabad intends...