China is planning for the possibility of war with the United States over the disputed island of Taiwan, and a possible conflict with India, according to US-based expert. And the Center for t... Read more
GSAT-20 to Ensure Faster Internet This Year
Come 2019, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will launch GSAT-20 — its second five-tonne class satellite after GSAT-11 — completing its network of high throughput communication satel... Read more
Smash the Bases, Spare the Men — Israel’s Invisible War in Syria
Israel’s military chief has for the first time spoken in detail about the war being waged in the shadows between his country and Iran. Israel has been in direct conflict with Iran for the pa... Read more
Japan’s East China Sea Nightmare: Too Many Chinese Fighter Jets and Warships to Counter
The sheer number of Chinese warships and warplanes patrolling a disputed East China Sea island chain threatens to overwhelm Japan’s own ships and planes. The imbalance could get worse... Read more
Welcome to Fight Club: Wargaming the Future
Yes, I am going to violate the first rule of Fight Club and talk about it. The U.S. Marine Corps, in partnership with a network that includes the U.S. Army and multiple agencies in the Depar... Read more
Indigenous Push Needs More Punch
THE ‘Make in India’ story in the defence equipment sector underlines a dichotomy — the country has leapfrogged in some areas while struggling with some basics. On November 5, 2018, India ann... Read more
The Indian Army (IA) first came up with its declassified official doctrine in 1998, and then again with a revised version in 2004. Subsequently, the IA came up with a sub-conventional warfar... Read more
10 Conflicts to Watch in 2019
In a world with fewer rules, the only truly effective one is knowing what you can get away with. The answer today, it turns out, is: quite a lot. As the era of largely uncontested U.S. prima... Read more
India Pips China in FDI Inflows for the First Time in 20 Years
From Walmart to Schneider Electric and Unilever on the one side and TPG Capital or KKR on the other,a tide of global capital is flooding into India from strategic investors to financial spon... Read more
Evolving Indian Security Architecture in Indo-Pacific
As the Indian economy grows to be the world’s sixth-largest, the expectations from most South, Southeast and East Asian countries, Indian Ocean littorals, and a large number of nations that... Read more