the last decade has witnessed a sea change in India's global ascendency, and the country is being increasingly considered among equals in the comity of developed nations. This transformative recognition is an unequivocal referendum...
The core driving force of the People’s Republic of China is the ideology of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Often expressed as socialism with Chinese characteristics, it focuses on ruling with an iron hand,...
Since independence, India evolved a transformational strategy towards China from being a dominant player in the power equation to one that is gradually growing beyond the realms of just maintaining credible deterrence. In a...
All nation-states have traditionally evolved to peacefully coexist amongst the comity of nations. However, ideological differences and internal strife necessitates a strong and effective military that needs to update and be current in strategy,...
The buzzword in the tech world these days is Chat GPT. Its enormous potential is forcing tech companies like Google, Microsoft and others to try to outdo each other in the race to integrate...
It is indeed naïve to state that India needs to have a comprehensive National Security Strategy even after seven decades of independence. The fact that India has survived in these years despite a very...
Ahead of the presentation of Union budget in Parliament on February 1, India's defence sector deserves to be in the spotlight due to increased volatility with belligerent neighbours. That apart, the political and military...
The aftermath of the Armenian-Azerbaijan conflict and more recently the Russian invasion of Ukraine seems to write the epitaph of the main battle tank as a vulnerable mechanical behemoth straddled with huge logistic baggage...
Geopolitical Landscape
Nations around the world are witnessing uncertainties hitherto unheard of in recent history. The storming of the Capitol Hill, Russian incursion into Ukraine, the forced eviction of the ruling leadership in Sri Lanka,...
The war in Ukraine is reverberating across the world with the cataclysmic human tragedy in terms of the scale of death and destruction ever witnessed since the Second World War, its economic strangulation and...
Space diplomacy is a global necessity given the paradox of today’s world, where peace is a measure of deterrence proportional to its weaponisation. This terrestrial phenomenon is systematically stretching out to outer space forming...
In a big push to defence manufacturing in India, the Union Minister of Finance Nirmala Sitharaman announced in her budget speech on 01 February this year that 25 per cent of the research and...
China’s recent enactment and adoption of the Land border Law is an endeavor to strengthen its border control and protection mechanism albeit with a tacit undertone of digging its heels on its perception of...