Opinion

On August 24, 2026, Washington launched Operation Economic Outcast, an aggressive campaign to sever Iran from its remaining economic lifelines. The United States is once again demonstrating something extraordinary: its ability to turn financial architecture...

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...

A week after Russian President Vladimir Putin’s unexpected visit to the disputed Kuril Islands, Japanese Defence Minister Shinjiro Koizumi arrived in India with aim to strengthen defence cooperation under ‘Japan-India Special Strategic and Global Partnership’,...

A slick infographic has been circulating across strategic-affairs feeds this month. Under a fedora-shadowed spy silhouette and the tagline "Knowledge. Security. Nation.", it ranks the intelligence agencies of twenty-six countries from one to twenty-six. The...

Icommanded 15 Punjab in Lebanon in 2006, immediately after the Israel-Hezbollah war, and saw at close quarters both the resilience of Lebanese society and the weakness of the state institutions around it. Twenty years later,...

In late August 2026, China's J-16s dogfought Egyptian Rafales in a first-of-its-kind exercise, Russia revived its Su-57 pitch to India even as New Delhi signalled the deal was dead, and Turkish and Chinese transport...

The Strait of Hormuz has once again reminded the world of an uncomfortable truth: geography can suddenly become strategy. A disruption thousands of kilometres away from India can ripple through crude prices, freight costs,...

For most of its history, Pakistan has been a crisis state that fought its crises one at a time. What makes the present moment different is that every fault line seems to have cracked...

The visit of National Security Adviser Ajit Doval to Beijing on August 24-25, 2026, comes at a particularly consequential moment in India-China relations. Doval is in Beijing for the 25th round of talks between...

Significant lessons are emerging about the changing nature of warfare based on the use of UAS (Unmanned Aerial Systems) in ongoing conflicts. These include imaginative use of UAS, which impacted movement on the battlefield...

Astrategic trap may be taking shape on India's western frontier, and it is being assembled not through declarations but through cargo manifests. Over roughly sixty hours, Pakistani skies reportedly saw a dense sequence of...

A revolt over electricity bills, wheat prices and stolen seats in Pakistan-administered Kashmir has exposed the hollowness of Islamabad’s favourite cause. For nearly 80 years, “Kashmir” in Pakistan's political vocabulary has meant one thing: a...

Pakistan's Parliament has just done what its army could never achieve with a tank on the street. It has legislated a coup and called it reform. On August 21, 2026, the National Assembly passed...