Pranay K Shome

–The writer is currently working as a Research Associate at Defence Research and Studies (dras.in) and is a columnist. The views expressed are personal and do not necessarily reflect the views of Raksha Anirveda

The Conundrum Named Xi

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  The anointment of Xi Jinping, the incumbent president of China, as the general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CCP) and as the head of the Central Military Commission (CMC) in the recently...

Getting Ties Back on Track

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  Foreign policy in today’s age is guided primarily by a combination of realism and pragmatism. This is exactly the case with India. The abstention of India at the United Nations Human Rights Council vote...

Impact of Technology on War

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  Homo sapiens evolved over time. In the evolutionary process of human history, war has been a crucial feature of their lives. The war happened for various reasons - be it for religion, wealth, race,...

Russia-Ukraine War: Lessons For India

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  "Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake”, said Napoleon Bonaparte, the French political and military leader. The Russo-Ukraine war is in its eighth month. When the invasion of Ukraine was launched...

INS Vikrant and the Great Power Game

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  Alfred Thayer Mahan, the renowned naval strategist and a former admiral of the American Navy, said, “Sea power is the key to the building up of an empire”. Perhaps the commissioning of India’s first...

On A Razor’s Edge

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  The United States of America recently carried out a precision drone strike which killed the leader of the dreaded terror organisation Al-Qaeda’s Emir Ayman Al Zawahiri. This is considered as one of the biggest...

Future of West Asia and India Relations

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  In foreign affairs conducting diplomacy is said to be doing the art of the possible. It denotes that through negotiations and mutual consultations even the toughest of problems can be solved. In that context...

Maturing of India’s Defence Diplomacy

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  Diplomacy is as old as the ancient Roman Empire. However, with the evolution of international political structure and the evolution of human cognition, the nature of diplomacy has undergone myriad paradigmatic changes. Diplomacy in...

China’s Interference in South East Asia: A Turning point in Geopolitics

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  Guided by the vision of reviving the glory of the , China under President Xi Jinping has been on an assertive and belligerent course. Under Xi, China has jettisoned the policy of peaceful coexistence...

Curbing China’s Belligerence in the Indo-Pacific

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  “Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake”, said Napoleon Bonaparte, the great French military leader and statesman. The idea of the Indo-Pacific is in vogue now, with almost every great power,...

Indo-Israel Defence Cooperation: An Insight into the Future Roadmap

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Three decades could be a short time for human life, but in international relations and military science, it is like ages. This is all the more evident in the relationship between India and Israel...

Gateway to Peace in the Middle East

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  A watershed moment in the geopolitics of the Middle East was achieved when the Abraham Accord was signed between Israel and four other Arab states - Bahrain, the UAE, Sudan and Morocco - under the...

Sri Lanka Crisis Must Not Spin Out of Control

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  Sri Lanka is on the edge. Faced with an unprecedented economic crisis perceived to be the worst in the island nation’s history, Sri Lanka has been wracked by months of popular protests against the...
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