Putin’s Lies About Ukraine Are Catching Up to Him
Presidents Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Vladimir Putin have provided key lessons for the United States and NATO in conducting information warfare. Zelenskyy has shown the importance of seizing…
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Sahar Khan
Managing Editor
Sahar Khan (@khansahar1) is an Editor at Inkstick. She is also a research fellow at the Cato Institute's Defense and Foreign Policy Studies department and adjunct faculty at American University's School of Public Affairs. Sahar holds a PhD in political science from the University of California, Irvine; a MPP from the Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago; and, a BA from Ohio Wesleyan University. Sahar's work has appeared in various well-known sources, such as The Diplomat, Axios, The Hill, and Newsweek.
“Backdoor” Pentagon Earmarks Bloat the Budget
Excessive government spending has rightly or wrongly been implicated in causing inflationary pressures on our economy, which forced the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates again. Of…
Calling on the US to Support Nonviolent Resistance in Ukraine
The International Catalan Institute for Peace recently released a profound, provocative, and potentially conflict-changing report on the broad range and deep impact of courageous Ukrainian…
A “New” Theory of American Power Takes on Straw Men and Loses
In an essay for the December 2022 issue of The Atlantic, George Packer proposes a new theory of American power that reads much like the Biden administration’s declared approach of…
Relations Between the US and France Are Worse Than They Appear
On Dec. 1, 2022, French President Emmanuel Macron will be in Washington for a state visit, the first one for the Biden administration. Macron’s visit seems to suggest that the US-France…
Putin’s Discriminatory Draft
On Sept. 21, 2022, amid mounting Russian casualties in Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin declared a “partial mobilization” of the country’s military reservists. Within days, a picture…
Learning to Forget Lessons from Counterinsurgency
Counterinsurgency, by all appearances, is well and truly out of fashion. After a long cycle over the last decade and a half of popularity, popular rejection, and decline, irregular war has…
Using the World Cup to Put a Spotlight on Qatar's Abuses
This month, the World Cup will kick off in Qatar, the first Middle Eastern country to host the event. This is a historic moment of pride for both Qatar and the Middle East, a region that has…
Seeking Alternatives to Military Escalation in the Ukraine War
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has proven to be brutal and catastrophic. Justice for the victims must be sought, but there is an even greater imperative to stop the bloodletting immediately,…
Attacking Russia in Ukraine Means War
Russia’s nuclear saber-rattling in the Russia-Ukraine War is growing louder. With Ukraine recovering areas seized by Russia earlier in the conflict, President Vladimir Putin is issuing…