Prof. Martin Sherman, the 2009-2010 Hebrew Union College/University of Southern California Schusterman Visiting Israeli Professor of Security Studies and International Policy, writing in the latest JINSA Global Briefing, analyzes the massive and enduring application of a double standard toward Israel with regard to alleged human rights abuses. Prof. Sherman compares Israeli actions in the war against Hamas with the 1999 NATO bombing campaign against Yugoslav forces.

In the wake of President Barak Obama's China trip this past November and the U.S.-China joint statement that resulted, many in Taiwan are apprehensive about Taiwan-U.S. ties and Taiwan's security, and for good reason, claims Dr. Parris Chang, writing in the latest JINSA Global Briefing. Chang is CEO of the Taiwan Institute for Political Economic and Strategic Studies.

China has been developing military and trade relationships in the Middle East that will come at the expense of American interests. In this most recent Global Briefing, Dr. Parris Chang, President of the Taiwan Institute for Political Economic and Strategic Studies, details Beijing's evolving policy toward the Middle East.

Colonel (ret.) Richard Kemp, CBE, commander of British Forces in Afghanistan in 2003, explains what the British should make of their rising casualties in Afghanistan in the latest JINSA Global Briefing.

M.D. Nalapat, Professor of Geopolitics at India's Manipal University, explains the substandard education system in India, and what is being done to change this problem.

M.D. Nalapat, Professor of Geopolitics at India's Manipal University, explains that India's capable diplomatic service is being stymied by a wall of ambivalence erected by the New Delhi's top policy makers, both within the political crust as well as the bureaucracy. Meanwhile, Beijing's dynamic and decisive foreign policy is winning China countries deemed important to India's security.

M.D. Nalapat, Professor of Geopolitics at India's Manipal University, analyzes the recent Indian elections that saw a crushing defeat for the right-of-center BJP and gave the ruling Congress Party a strong hold of the parliament.

M.D. Nalapat, Professor of Geopolitics at India's Manipal University, explains that unless the police in India are given the manpower, the remuneration and the equipment and training needed to evolve into a modern and professional force they are at risk of being ineffective against not just the criminals but against a foe even deadlier - the terrorist.

M.D. Nalapat, Professor of Geopolitics at India's Manipal University, explains that from March 2 to the expected swearing-in of a new government at the end of May, India has once again relapsed to "election mode," where effective governance has passed from the elected representatives of the people to the Election Commission composed of three former bureaucrats who have given to themselves dictatorial power during this period.

In his sixth analytical essay on India, M.D. Nalapat, Professor of Geopolitics at India's Manipal University, describes what he refers to as "a silent civil war in India." Unless one of the two groups is given encouragement, India may within 15 years enter the trajectory now being orbited by Pakistan.