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Vipul V. Tamhane

The writer is an expert on geopolitics, national security, and counter-terrorism; and he regularly contributes his subject thought-leadership and academic commentary with several publications in newspapers, journals, and periodicals. He works with investigative agencies, regulatory bodies, financial institutions and enterprises, providing strategic and regulatory advisory. The views expressed are personal and do not necessarily carry the views of Raksha Anirveda

Deterrence on Paper, Ransom in Practice: What the Saudi-Houthi Bargain Teaches India

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Whether or not Saudi Arabia offered the Houthis $1 billion, the fact that the report is credible is itself the verdict. Two months after Riyadh, Ankara and Islamabad signed the Mecca Joint Defence Alliance...

Get It Right Yourself: India’s Counter-Terrorism Doctrine Meets Washington’s Pakistan Calculus

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On October 21, an Indian diplomat did something unusual in New York: he publicly corrected a United Nations Special Rapporteur on a matter of fact. Ben Saul, the UN's Special Rapporteur on counter-terrorism and...

The War That Begins on Day Thirty

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By the time a modern war reaches its second month, the opening salvos have long been fired, the pre-positioned inventories drawn down, and the outcome no longer turns on who struck first. It turns...

The Pressure Environment: Why India Must Read the Convergence Without Fear

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Security planners are trained to think in terms of convergence: the moment when separate pressures, each manageable alone, arrive at the same time and stretch the state's attention, resources and legitimacy. India is in...

From the UNGA Pulpit to the Grey Zone: Pakistan’s UN Theatrics and India’s Real Battle

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Last week, Shehbaz Sharif walked up to the green-marble podium in New York and told the world that Kashmir “has and always will be Pakistan's jugular vein.” That same week, India's External Affairs Minister...

Modern Warfare: Final Decision Must Remain in Human Control 

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The most dangerous decision in the next major war may not be made by a machine. It may be made by a human who has been given only seconds to decide. For a decade, the...

The Security Ledger of New Delhi 2026: What the BRICS Summit Means for India and South Asia

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When the 18th BRICS Summit concluded at Bharat Mandapam on September 13, the headlines belonged to the diplomats: a consensus declaration wrung from 11 quarrelsome members, 15 bilaterals in three days, a rare Xi...

Framing the Frame: What Pakistan’s SCO Crop Really Signifies

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On September 1, 2026, at the close of the 26th Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit in Bishkek, the official account of Pakistan's Prime Minister's Office posted the customary family photograph of the assembled heads...

The G-3 Directorate Threatens India’s Security

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As Prime Minister Narendra Modi welcomes an expanded BRICS to Bharat Mandapam this week, the summit's real significance for India's security lies not in anything that will be signed in Delhi, but in a...

The Shadow of AQIS and the Unspoken Bioterror Risk: India’s Quiet Vulnerability

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The 38th report of the Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team, submitted pursuant to UN Security Council resolution 2734 (2024), has delivered an uncomfortable reminder. Al-Qaida in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) is no longer...

The Forum that Cannot Name the Threat

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The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) was built to fight terrorism, yet its consensus structure gives Pakistan and China a permanent veto over naming cross-border threats. India remains in the bloc not to seek institutional...

When the State Stops Fearing Its Own Fracture

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Eighty-one years ago, two Japanese cities got turned to ash, and the survivors, the hibakusha, spent the rest of their lives insisting that the world keep remembering what a bomb does to human beings,...

The Masterclass Between the Lines

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When a former Intelligence Bureau officer with eleven years in the service sits down for a long, unguarded conversation, the result should be treated as primary-source material. Atul Chandra Kulkarni’s appearance on Jayesh Gangan’s...
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