- Zalmay Khalilzad: Breaking the Taliban-Pakistan alliance
A Hindu priest was hacked to death on Tuesday morning in southwestern Bangladesh, in what the police suspected was the latest in a series of killings by Islamist militants. – New York Times
Amid media reports of a suspected cyberattack by a Pakistan-based group targeting the Indian government, some officials and analysts here are calling for progress on a proposed tri-service command on cybersecurity that is still pending approval by the Ministry of Defense. – Defense News
Open Letter: For the United States to succeed in its mission in Afghanistan, it is essential that the Obama administration sustain the current level of U.S. forces there. Recognizing this, John Allen spearheaded a move to ask President Obama to do so, in the following open letter to which former leaders from the military and diplomatic corps signed on. – Brookings Institution