Opinion

on July 1, 2026, Xi Jinping stood before the Great Hall of the People and vowed to defeat Taiwan independence separatist forces while pressing the People's Liberation Army towards full modernisation ahead of its...

Confronted with persistent challenges along its northern and western borders, as well as an increasingly complex Indo-Pacific security landscape, India has steadily shifted from reactive defence procurement towards a long-term strategy centred on capability...

Pakistan's military leadership has recently started projecting a global image, by increasing diplomatic engagement in regional and international affairs. Army Chief General Asim Munir's interactions with major global powers and regional stakeholders have reinforced...

The character of warfare is undergoing one of its most profound transformations since the advent of precision-guided munitions. Unmanned aerial systems (UAS), once regarded primarily as surveillance platforms, have evolved into indispensable military assets...

When Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Australian counterpart Anthony Albanese sat down in Melbourne in July 2026 for the 3rd Australia-India Annual Leaders Summit, the headlines were dominated by uranium. Eighteen agreements were...

For three days in late July, the Philippine capital did something that no rival institution in the Indo-Pacific can consistently pull off: bringing the American, Chinese, Russian, Indian, and European foreign ministers under one...

The Paradox of Reform Every society believes in reform—until reform demands change before a crisis. History tells a curious story. Nations rarely reform because they are wise; they reform because they are cornered. The recent calls...

Every generation of soldiers seems to inherit a handful of names, the kind of which stop being just people and start acting like measuring sticks. In the Indian Army, Captain Vikram Batra is one...

Over the past few years, India has emerged as one of the world's fastest-growing drone ecosystems. From surveillance missions along sensitive borders to precision agriculture, disaster response, logistics and military reconnaissance, unmanned aerial vehicles...

Within the space of a single week, Ukraine lost two of the men who had come to symbolise its evolving military doctrine. On July 15, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy dismissed Defence Minister Mykhailo Fedorov, the...

On July 26, 1999, 27 years ago, the guns fell silent after 83 days of intense fighting on the Ladakh and Karakoram ranges in the Himalayas. Then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, admiring the...

In the space of just a few days in May 2025, Operation Sindoor reshaped several assumptions about South Asian air power. Launched in response to the Pahalgam attack of April 22, which resulted in...

Reports of Pakistan and Kuwait moving towards an expanded defence partnership have generated considerable interest across strategic circles in South Asia and the Gulf. Although military cooperation between Pakistan and the Gulf monarchies is not...