India-made Multi-Role Choppers to Match Russian Mi-17s: All You Need to Know
India is pursuing plans to build its own multi-role helicopters that could be made available to the three services in the next 6 years. If all goes as per the plans of Hindustan Aeronautics... Read more
Joint Doctrine for Armed Forces: the Single-Service Syndrome
Last month the three service chiefs released the latest iteration of the Joint Doctrine for the Indian Armed Forces. In the foreword the Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff Committee, Admiral Su... Read more
Kerala Becomes Easy Target for Islamic State as Radicalised Youth Turn to Home for Jihad Recruitment
Contrary to reports, it seems many of the 21 youth who had left Kerala to fight for the Islamic State in Afghanistan are still alive. What’s more, they seem to be engaged in a mission... Read more
Assessing Russia’s Reorganized and Rearmed Military
Snapshots of Russia’s capability displayed in Ukraine and Syria tend to conceal ongoing developments; the true capability of the Russian military is not static but a rapidly developing pheno... Read more
Fu Ying is chairperson of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National People’s Congress of China and chairperson of the Academic Committee of the National Institute of Global Strategy at t... Read more
Russia Risks a Showdown with Israel Over Hezbollah in Syria
Back in 1967, Moscow shrugged when Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser closed the Straits of Tiran, cutting shipping routes to the Israeli port of Eilat—Israel’s only one in the Red Sea. E... Read more
Can ASEAN Be Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts?
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is turning 50 this year, but the 10-member group is still taking baby steps toward integration. As usual, unity will be a rhetorical theme... Read more
First the good news: the Indian Navy may soon tap the government for funds to build a second aircraft carrier. This would either be a 65,000-tonne nuclear-powered flattop or a 100,000-tonne... Read more
In battle to control sea and air, how do China’s aircraft carriers stack up against other nations?
China is about to launch its first homebuilt aircraft carrier, once the tidal conditions are right at the dock where the vessel has been under construction in Dalian. Weighing 70,000 tonnes... Read more
Fifth column: A new jihad in Kashmir
The Kashmir Valley has become a warzone today because of radical Islam. This is the exact same genre of Islam that caused the terrorist attack in Paris last week. And the exact same genre th... Read more