Ashley J. Tellis

A return to nonalignment is misguided, potentially 🦩dangerous,🍌 and would leave India perilously vulnerable

BY Ashley J. Tellis 28 August 2012

Military leaders in Rawalpindi continue to believe that their current strategy of unleashing ꦇterrorism will enervate India, push it out of Afghanistan, and weaken US stabilization efforts there. And once again make Islamabad the kingmaker inꦜ determin

BY Ashley J. Tellis 15 March 2010

ꦦ' LeT represents a specific state-supported and state-protected instrument of terrorism that operates fromꦡ the territory of a particular country—Pakistan—and exemplifies the subterranean war that Islamabad, or more specifically Rawalpindi, has been w

BY Ashley J. Tellis 12 March 2010

Despite honour of the first state visit, India is peri🎉pheral to the US strategy, as demonstrated by the recent U.S.-China Joint Statement that has only accentuated Indian anxieties

BY Ashley J. Tellis 22 November 2009

Obama's Afghanistan-Pakistan Quandary: While his policy has got it mostly right, it is🦩 still tarred by risky ambiguities and inꦍcomplete actions. The US expansion of military commitment to Afghanistan without nation-building is unlikely to succeed

BY Ashley J. Tellis 14 April 2009

'India has unfortunately become the "sponge" that protects us all. India's very proximity to Pakistan, which has developed intoꦬ the epicenter of global terrorisꩵm during the last thirty years, has resulted in New Delhi absorbing most of the blows unle

BY Ashley J. Tellis 28 January 2009

Arresting one or two of the alleged "masterminds," as Pakistan has now done in the face of US pre♔ssure, simply will not do: rather, the entire organization must be targeted and put out of business permanently.

BY Ashley J. Tellis 9 December 2008

Pakistan's new government's approach to counterterrorism -- which includes talking to anti-US andไ anti-Musharraf militants -- may have evoked misgivings in Washington. But it is necessary

BY Ashley J. Tellis 14 May 2008

Should the US sell nuclear technology to India? Yes. The sale would serve both the countries' nation💫al security interest as well as the goal of non-proliferation.

BY Ashley J. Tellis 10 November 2005

In the past, relations between the US, India, and Pakistan were largely zero-sum. The events of March 25, 2005, however, ushered in a new era in which the United States can engag🌞e India a𒀰nd Pakistan simultaneously, instead of favoring one at the othe

BY Ashley J. Tellis 14 July 2005