Opinion

The Ballot Strikes Back: Washington has woken to a political earthquake. Two years after Donald Trump returned promising to reshape America, voters have handed Democrats control of both chambers of Congress. Their gains in...

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...

americans voted on Tuesday, November 3, for the mid-term elections to the US Senate and the House of representatives, concerned about petrol prices, grocery bills and a war in the Gulf that most of...

Every monsoon, Assam counts its losses in the same currency: lives, homes and hectares under water. This year the Brahmaputra overran its banks again, killing at least 50 people and displacing around seven lakh....

Europe possesses immense collective wealth, advanced technology, educated populations, and institutions that helped shape the modern international order. Yet its economic weight has not translated into equivalent strategic coherence. National interests diverge, defence industries...

The votes have been counted in perhaps one of the most significant elections in Israel’s political history, an election that was projected more as a referendum on Prime Minister Netanyahu than anything else. Instead,...

Every tank crew carries the same quiet challenge into the final minutes before contact. It is not the enemy it can see; it is the one it cannot: the missile team buried in the...

Against the backdrop of the palm-fringed coastlines of Cebu in the Philippines, the luxury resorts of the island city served as an unexpected crucible for high-stakes geopolitical engineering. On October 28, 2026, on the...

Against the spiritual landscape of Varanasi, where the eternal flow of the Ganges meets centuries of Indian heritage, the skies of Kashi transformed into a high-octane theatre of modern military might. The three-day mega...

Last week, Mohamed Muizzu visited Pakistan, first by a Maldivian President in 11 years. During the visit he signed 20 agreements spanning defence, maritime security, cybersecurity, AI and intelligence sharing, triggering concern in New...

The central paradox of the Yemen war is that a militarily weaker actor can gain strategic leverage by exploiting what its stronger adversary cannot afford to lose. The Houthis have endured years of military...

In politics, disruption seems to bring a wave of novelty — change that promises to deliver on countless hopes, aspirations, and desires of the citizenry. However, the Greek philosopher Aristotle was of the view...

India’s maritime security conversation is entering a consequential phase. The next advantage at sea may not come from any single ship, aircraft or sensor. It may come from connecting technologies that have traditionally developed...