Competing Visions Of International Order In The South China Sea
The disputes in the South China Sea are fundamentally about claims of sovereignty, the broadest of which are staked by Beijing. The Chinese-U.S. rivalry, meanwhile, loads the dissension with... Read more
How Should New Delhi Respond To China’s Growing Nuclear Arsenal?
Less than a fortnight before a great mushroom cloud rose over the Lop Nor lake, a small group of analysts at the United States Defense Department issued a grim assessment of what China’s imm... Read more
It’s Not Shipshape
THE commissioning of two naval platforms in Mumbai over the past week — the guided-missile destroyer INS Visakhapatnam and the diesel submarine INS Vela is a significant punctuation in India... Read more
The total value of contracts awarded for commercial aircrafts and defence purposes jumped by Dh63 billion on the third day of the Dubai Airshow 2021 on Tuesday, reaching Dh266 billion in the... Read more
As many as 101 projects have been identified by the Ministry of Ports under the PM Gati Shakti National Master Plan to strengthen the port connectivity with consumption and production centre... Read more
New Quad May Bolster India’s Gulf Presence
The mini-multilateral MEQ challenges India to build on its close bilateral economic ties with both Israel and the United Arab Emirates. All the more so because its refusal to join the Indo-P... Read more
Army Begins Major Theatre-Level Exercise Along Western Border, First Since Covid Pandemic
As India’s defence forces work towards integration and theaterisation, the Army has initiated a major exercise along the western borders, involving over 30,000 troops, assets of the Air Forc... Read more
Russia Preparing To Attack Ukraine By Late January: Ukraine Defense Intelligence Agency Chief
Russia has more than 92,000 troops amassed around Ukraine’s borders and is preparing for an attack by the end of January or beginning of February, the head of Ukraine’s defense intelligence... Read more
To most observers, US President Joe Biden’s recent approach to China seems to resemble nothing more than a seesaw at a children’s park, with dire threats at one moment and airy waves to the... Read more
Afghans Bide Time In N.M. ‘Village’
Thousands of evacuees still await relocation to cities across the U.S. holloman air force base, n.m. — The U.S. government calls the 50-acre sprawl of tents on this desert Air Force base a “... Read more