The India-Afghanistan-US Triangle Under Trump
The past year has seen successive attempts of strategic evolution by the United States to end the war in Afghanistan and revamp its influence in […]
Shreyas Deshmukh
Shreyas Deshmukh is a Research Associate with the National Security Program at Delhi Policy Group, a think tank in New Delhi, India. Prior to joining DPG, he worked with MitKat Advisory Services as a geopolitical risk analyst. He has also worked as Research Assistant at the Centre for Land Warfare Studies (CLAWS), New Delhi and as a South & Central Asia Fellow at PoliTact in Washington D.C. He holds a master’s degree in defense and strategic studies from the University of Pune, and his academic focus is on geopolitical developments in Afghanistan and Pakistan. He has also interned at the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA) in New Delhi, where, as a member of the Pakistan Project, he contributed to a book titled "Unending Violence in Pakistan: Analyzing the Trends” as well as co-edited issues for the “Pakistan News Digest."
Articles by Shreyas Deshmukh
After the Kabul Process: Three Options for the Taliban
Amid continuing violence in Afghanistan, President Ashraf Ghani laid out a path for unconditional peace talks with the Taliban during the second meeting of the […]
Ghani’s Visit to India: Partnering for a Stable Afghanistan
Strategy, opportunity, change, and hope were four keywords enunciated by Afghan President Ashraf Ghani during a speech about Afghanistan’s future during his day-long working visit […]
Hot Takes: Mattis in India
A New Era of Diplomatic Maneuvering: India and the United States in Afghanistan By Shreyas Deshmukh This week, U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis traveled to India […]
Af-Pak Border: Analyzing Pakistan’s Evolving Policy
After a month of closure, the Pakistan-Afghanistan border finally reopened last week. Reacting to major attacks in Pakistan recently, in which over 120 people were killed and […]
2016 in Review: Afghanistan
Mullah Omar’s death and Mullah Mansoor’s rise as an Emir of an Islamic militia prompted expectations of the Taliban being forced back to the negotiation […]
Changing Outlook: What a Trump Presidency Means for Afghanistan
As American political commentator Henry Olsen rightly noted, a major risk of democracy is that it can produce demagogues, popular leaders who can mobilize the […]