Rakesh Krishnan Simha

  The tools, methods and perceptions of war may have changed, but war itself has not changed. As UK-based strategist and author Colin Gray says, “Some confused theorists would have us believe that war can...

In February 2023 the US brought its most advanced jet, the F-35, to India for the first time alongside the F-16 and FA-18 fighters and the B-1B bomber. This year’s US delegation at Aero...

  In 1940 legendary Indian industrialist Walchand Hirachand struck a deal with an American businessman to produce combat aircraft in India. One of the investors in the project was the Maharaja of Mysore who agreed to...

  The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) will soon be equipped with the world’s fastest cruise missile. The first battery of the made in India BRAHMOS supersonic missile for the Philippines Marines Corps’ Coastal...

In June 2023, as 11.6 million young people in China graduated from university, the traditional pictures of joyful students throwing their hats and gowns into the air were replaced by photos of them throwing...

  India’s intensified competition with communist China, heightened instability in Pakistan, New Delhi's growing military ties with the West, the linkup between home-grown radicals and the Islamic State, and the festering Maoist insurgency have transformed...

  The 1971 War was a military and political disaster for Pakistan as the Islamic Republic lost its more populous and economically dominant eastern half which became the new nation of Bangladesh. The conflict was...

“After the rapid transformations and the excitement of the past few years, the US-India bilateral relationship must now settle down: leaders should focus on strengthening ties by embracing small, concrete opportunities to cooperate rather...

  In 1758, the Maratha Empire defeated the Afghans and captured Lahore, bringing Punjab briefly back under Hindu rule after a gap of nearly 800 years. After the Marathas planted their flag on the walls...

  With the Americans bringing the F-35 stealth fighter and the F-21 (a rebadged F-16) to Aero India, there will be a deluge of articles in the media that India and the US are about...

  "The safety, honour and welfare of the country comes first, always and every time. The honour, welfare and comfort of the men you command comes next and your own ease, comfort and safety come...

  In 1963, T.N. Kaul, India’s ambassador in Moscow, asked Russian Defence Minister Marshal Rodion Malinovsky what sort of defence preparedness India needed. The Indian Navy’s official history ‘Transition to Triumph’ records the Russian minister’s...

  "A mistake in strategy cannot be undone in the same war,” said German General Erich von Ludendorff at the end of World War I. In the Ukraine War, Russia had all the advantages -...