Pakistan's security environment is rapidly changing, numerous ideological, ethnic and confessional conflicts are emerging that can rapidly destabilize, even isolate Pakistan's traditional threat assessment framework.  The Prime Ministers inability to influence or contribute to King Salaman portends to embody a 'perfect storm' for Islamabad.  

Q1.  What concrete resources can Army leadership field to preserve its regional interests in a rapidly changing environment.

Q2.  The I.M.F. assessment of Pakistan's weak and faltering political economy mired in intransigent reform contributes to Pakistan's social, political instability.  Is the Army ready to permit civilian supremacy & reform, whose strength can contribute to State resources helping leadership address growing subnational, regional conflicts that could envelop Islamabad.

Q3.  What policy can Islamabad field to counter a rapidly militant column of indigenous Shia favorable to Teheran.

Q4.  A new patron in Beijing portends that Pakistan seeks to prevent isolation, what role does Beijing play for Islamabad's security interests.

The paradox of Russian Civilization begs for clarity & resolution:  Russian foreign policy has historically been informed by its geographic vastness, however, contemporary technological developments eliminate the dominant role geography, effectively elevating the nature of the political regime to primacy.  

Q1.  Crimea, Ukraine, & NATO OBSCURE dominant trends that portend a weak Muscovy.  How does Russia fix is dangerously low demography.

Q2.  Russia deployed hybrid force posture to Ukraine so as to not trip NATO article 5.  Your modernization plans have failed.  How does Russia accomplish force modernization while repudiating capitalist/market based approach. 

Q3.  Edmund Burke's 'little platoons', his euphemism for the supremacy of civil society over 'the State' remains the final bulwark against tyranny.  Is AUTOCRACY the final regime for Russia?

Q4.  How to fix a floating Rubble w/o embracing efforts to diversify Russian political economy.

Q5.  German self-consciousness is still paralyzed from WWII.  Has Russia read U.S. & German leadership correctly?

Q6.  What permeant Russian interests are served by underwriting Iranian objectives?

Q7.  What are the sources of renewal for Russian Civilization.  

Dr. Timothy Furnish:  Islamic World Subject Matter Expert on Islamic Eschatology & Trans-National Islamic Movements discusses Jalalabad's terrorist bombing, the changing threat environment emerging throughout the Subcontinent from the Islamic States eastward movement. 

Q1.  Does Jalalabad's terrorist bombing change the Subcontinents calculations about terror proxies. 

Q2.  Is there a role for India?

Q3.  Is there a "perfect storm" brewing, an ideologically driven sectarian conflict enveloping trans-nationally?  

Q4.  Who possess the best intelligence regionally?

Q5.  Who takes the lead from Islamabad to counter the Islamic State in the Subcontinent?

Q6.  How does the U.S. deal with a Pakistani nuclear umbrella for the Saudi's?

Q7.  How best does the U.S. lead on countering the appeal to Islamic militancy?

Wikistrat's Senior South Asian Policy Analyst, Former Directorate of Naval Operations New Delhi on  scale & character of India's rescue operations for numerous Nationals moving west from Yemeni capital of Sanaa under heavy bombardment from Riyadh.  

Dr. Sohail Mahmood Dean & Professor of International Relations in Islamabad on Saudi Arabia's Lead Building Sunni Coalition Against Iran In Southwest Yemen. 

1.  What did King Salaman from Riyadh want from Pakistan, why couldn't Pakistan deliver?

2.  Is Iran strengthened by sectarian regional conflict?

3.  How does Pakistan balance its interests by Abstaining?

4.  How does Air-Power defeat Iranian advantage in light infantry?

Q1:  What did indigenous Russian War Planners find when they probed modernization plans?

Q2:  Ukrainian War Plan emphasized rapid deployment & special forces, positivist orientation to avoid tripping NATO Article 5, why has this conflict devolved into an 'old war'?

Q3:  What did Russia learn from its 2nd Chechen Conflict regarding interoperability & permanent readiness?

Q4:  How does Russia fix its poor state of avionics, guidance munitions weaponry, antiquated tanks and poor armament without damaging its autocratic institutions?

Q5:  How can Russian war planners parry the impact of 700K+ draft on its society?

Q6:  Are their alternatives to embracing a western/capitalist 'market based' industrial reforms for armaments?

Q7:  The components of Russia's Central Bank portfolio is heavily foreign denominated debt, collapsing Russian dollar and exhausted foreign reserves.  How does Putin avoid implosion.

Dr. Stefan Hedlund Uppsala Center for Russian/Eurasian Affairs, an authority on Russian strategy, Russian Political Economy http://www.stefanhedlund.com