The atmosphere of suspicion in the People’s Liberation Army is an indicator of the troubles within. Whether these are serious issues or just to ‘scare the monkeys’, is another matter. India... Read more
Cyber has become a means for nations and organizations to achieve objectives below the thresholds of conflict. In this new digital warfare domain, traditional conceptions are being flipped o... Read more
The four different studies being pursued by the Army HQ have the potential of transforming our army into leaner and meaner force. Amongst these studies is the one focused on the re-organisin... Read more
China and India have both decided to expand their navies by building their own aircraft carriers. Both nations began by refurbishing Russian carriers before designing and building their own.... Read more
The trade war that the U.S. has unleashed on China continues to ratchet up. The next round of 25-percent tariffs on $16 billion of imports from China will go into effect Aug. 23. China is co... Read more
In the near future, engineers are going to have to figure out ways to prevent robots from killing. This is part of the broader work on the edges of lethal autonomous weapons systems, a propo... Read more
The head of Strategic Command has outlined a vision for the future to better integrate war-fighting functions and capabilities to keep pace with adversaries in an increasingly dynamic enviro... Read more
IT WAS an innocent mistake, with huge consequences. Robin Seggelmann was a programmer working on OpenSSL, a software library used to make secure connections over the internet. In 2014, it em... Read more
What causes empires to fall? According to one influential view, it’s ultimately a question of investment. Great powers are the nations that best harness their economic potential to build up... Read more
While the Chinese are quite vocal about their claims on most of South China Sea, they don’t similarly tom-tom about their objectives in the Indian Ocean from rooftops. China’s op... Read more