Is China Overestimating its Strength?
The brutal brawl at Galwan Valley on 15-16 June which led to major casualties on both sides after a gap of around five decades is a steep escalation in India-China military face-offs. The Ch... Read more
North Korean Military Threatens to Re-Enter Demilitarised Areas
The General Staff of the Korean People’s Army said it’s reviewing recommendation to advance into unspecified border areas that had been demilitarized under agreements with the South, which w... Read more
Clash at LAC: What Went Wrong?
What exactly happened that triggered the violence in Ladakh between Indian and Chinese soldiers? StratNewsGlobal Editor-in-Chief Nitin Gokhale speaks to the former Commanding Officer of a ba... Read more
The process of de-escalation may have begun along the LAC but India is not letting its guard down. The Indian Air Force is conducting sorties in the area both for surveillance and to let the... Read more
Delhi Reaches out to Kathmandu: Pause Map Process, Come to Table
Moving to check the slide in ties with Nepal, government sources indicated Monday that New Delhi is willing to hold talks with Kathmandu on the boundary dispute if the KP Sharma Oli governme... Read more
North Korea Vows to Boost Nuclear Program, Saying U.S. Diplomacy Failed
North Korea on Friday said that two years of diplomacy with President Trump had “faded away into a dark nightmare,” and vowed to increase its nuclear weapons capabilities. “Even a slim ray o... Read more
Washington Needs a Bold Rethink of its China Strategy
In a recent Rose Garden briefing, President Donald Trump directly challenged the leadership of the People’s Republic of China. He announced the United States would depart from the World Heal... Read more
1962≠2020: US Study Explains India’s Conventional Edge Over China
India holds a conventional advantage to ward off a 1962-type setback in the event of a full-scale escalation with China primarily because of its Beijing-centric deployments across air, land... Read more
The upswing in militancy in the province of Balochistan by ethnic groups calling for independence from Pakistan poses a security challenge to the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), Bei... Read more
From Borders to Banks: The Infinite Spectrum of Pakistan Military’s Profiteering Enterprise
On 12 July 2019, when the World Bank’s International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) announced a massive award of US $5.976 billion against Pakistan, to be paid to Tet... Read more