Status: Weapons Free – “Arm The Brain”
Editor’s Note The methodologies of fighting our wars are being turned on its head. A slew of terminologies like 4G Warfare, Hybrid Wars, wars in the Space and Cyberspace; Hypersonic Weapons... Read more
Review of Indian No First Use Nuclear Policy: Posers and Posits
Editor’s Note In 2016, the then defence minister Manohar Parrikar, while talking about ‘No First Use’ (NFU) had said, “Why should I bind myself? I should say I am a responsible nuclear... Read more
Escalating Tensions in East Asia
Editor’s Note In the shifting sands of global geopolitics, accentuated by eroding faith in the US, East Asia has been witnessing provocative gestures by major regional players. The relations... Read more
Foreign Policy and National Security
Editor’s Note The umbilical relationship between foreign policy and military capabilities is often lost sight of in resource allocations by countries as they try and balance growth and natio... Read more
Hong Kong Crisis as a Red Flag Flutters
Editor’s Note Hong Kong is on the boil. The tiny island territory, a hub of global business is witnessing a turmoil perhaps never anticipated. That over a million men and women will get on t... Read more
CDS: From Infighting to Warfighting; From Integration to Jointness
Editor’s Note With the announcement by the Prime Minister during his Independence Day Speech, it’s apparently a done deal. India will have a Chief of the Defence Staff (CDS). Whoever he migh... Read more
Pakistan Inching Towards Failures
Editor’s Note Pakistan has been on the brink of failing for a protracted period of time. Pakistan’s economic woes, huge debt burden that can perhaps never be eased, caught in a bind woven by... Read more
US-Iran: The Spat and the Standoff
The present imbroglio between the USA and Iran was expected. Candidate Trump in the run-up to the Presidency of the most powerful nation had vowed to withdraw from the Joint Comprehensive Pl... Read more
Kashmir Redux: No Chest-Thumping, Long Haul Ahead
President Ram Nath Kovind has declared abrogation of the provisions of Article 370 and its subset 35 A of the Constitution, which gave special status to Jammu and Kashmir on August 6. The mo... Read more
Rise of Eurasia And The New Great Game
Editor’s Note Eurasia’s importance to global geopolitics is rapidly swinging on an ascendant graph. It gathers pace as the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation gains greater traction amongst a... Read more