Author profile: Amalendu Misra
The Killers’ Kindness: Gang Humanitarianism in Latin America
When accepting a gang’s favour, communities can become prisoners to criminal authority and demands in perpetuity.
The Neo-Taliban: The Shape of Things to Come…
One of the enduring features of Western strategic thinking over the past half-century has been to immediately write off one’s less powerful enemy, if the latter has been militarily overpowered. As the history of contemporary warfare suggests, very often this approach is couched on the realist thinking that a vanquished enemy is incapable of making a comeback.
