• OPINION

  The democratisation of airpower

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 25/09/2019

  » Big shifts in the military balance happen quietly over many years, and then leap suddenly into focus when the shooting starts.

• OPINION

  Treachery reigns supreme in the Middle East

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 17/08/2019

  » Things have got so complicated in the Middle East that the players are no longer just stabbing each other in the back. They are stabbing each other in the chest, in the groin, behind the left ear -- anywhere that comes to hand. Friends and allies one day are targets and enemies the next.

• OPINION

  Kashmir: The 'wounded civilisation' strikes back

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 09/08/2019

  » God knows what novelist V S Naipaul really meant half a century ago when he called India "the wounded civilisation" in his travelogue-cum-psychoanalysis book about the home of his ancestors. But it is a handy phrase, because it encapsulates the vision that drove Prime Minister Narendra Modi to destroy the deal that bound Kashmir to India on Monday.

• OPINION

  'Dysfunctional' Trump and Iran

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 10/07/2019

  » Iran has "begun its march ... towards nuclear weaponry", said Israel's energy minister Yuval Steinitz, and that is technically correct. Only one year and 60 days after US President Donald Trump tore up the treaty that guaranteed Iran won't make nuclear weapons, Iran has taken a tiny step towards reviving its nuclear programme.

• OPINION

  Softly, softly the right tactic   for nuke deal

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 27/02/2019

  » On a scale of one to 10, what are the chances that the meeting between Chairman Kim Jong-un and President Donald Trump in Vietnam today and tomorrow (or any subsequent meeting) will end with a clear and irreversible commitment to the "denuclearisation" of North Korea? Zero.

• OPINION

  India-Pakistan: Maybe war, but not a water war

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 01/03/2019

  » After the terrorist attack on Indian troops in Kashmir two weeks ago that killed 40 Indian soldiers, but before Tuesday's retaliatory air strikes across the border into Pakistan by the Indian Air Force, the Indian government did something unprecedented. It threatened to cut off Pakistan's water. Or at least, it sounded like that.

• OPINION

  Shared delusions of Trump and the Saudi Crown Prince

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 23/11/2018

  » "It's a suffering tape, it's a terrible tape," the Snowflake-in-Chief told Fox News on Sunday, defending his refusal to listen to the recording of journalist Jamal Khashoggi being murdered and sawn into pieces in the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul on Oct 2. "I know everything that went on in the tape without having to hear it. It was very violent, very vicious and terrible."

• OPINION

  Yemen: Saudi Arabia's even bigger lie

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 26/10/2018

  » While Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MbS) frantically tries to scrub Jamal Khashoggi's blood off his hands like a Middle Eastern Lady Macbeth -- "Here's the smell of blood still. Not all the sweet perfumes of Arabia will sweeten this hand" -- could we have a word about his war in Yemen too?

• OPINION

  Is Pakistan's dilemma self-defeating?

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 01/11/2018

  » 'India is shrinking the flow of water into Pakistan," said Pakistan's Chief Justice Saqib Nisar on Saturday, renewing a ban on showing Indian TV shows and Bollywood films on Pakistani television. "They are trying to [obstruct the construction] of our dam and we cannot even close their [television] channels?"

• OPINION

  The first shots of another Gulf war?

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 25/09/2018

  » The men who carried out Saturday's attack on the parade in Ahvaz, in Iran's southwestern province of Khuzestan, were well trained: Four of them killed 25 people and wounded 70 others before they were shot dead. The question is whether they were trained by the Islamic State (IS), or by the backers of the low-profile Ahvaz National Resistance, which also claimed credit.

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