Opinion

The latest US-Saudi Arabia nuclear agreement, formalised under Section 123 of the US Atomic Energy Act, gives American firms legal access to build out Saudi Arabia's civilian nuclear programme, alongside separate bilateral safeguards accord...

At first glance, the on-going CJP protest appears to be another episode in India's vibrant democratic tradition - citizens expressing dissent over a contentious public issue. Yet, as reports of violence, attacks on police...

On July 6, 2026, China fired a long-range ballistic missile in the South Pacific. The missile fired from a nuclear-powered submarine carried a dummy or simulated training warhead and landed in designated waters in...

The entire world is tired of hearing President Donald Trump screaming victory and going back to war the next day. It is equally sick of listening to his claim that the US has destroyed...

In the annals of Indian military leadership, few transitions carry the weight of symbolic and substantive continuity as the assumption of command by General Dhiraj Seth as the 31st Chief of the Army Staff...

International relations have been instrumental in great power rivalries. Throughout history, several contests among a multitude of formidable state actors have generated consequential outcomes for the world order. In the third decade of the...

India's vision of the Indo-Pacific has evolved over the past decade from a primarily Indian Ocean-centred maritime doctrine into a comprehensive and multidimensional geopolitical strategy. Today, India's Indo-Pacific approach has attracted significant attention among...

Every few months, a fresh set of figures arrives confirming that India's defence sector is expanding rapidly. The latest, drawn from a Kotak Institutional Equities report, projects that defence capital expenditure will grow by...

On July 15, 2026, The Telegraph reported that Houthi rebels are laying the groundwork to close the Bab el-Mandeb Strait on Iran's behalf, coordinating with Somalia's al-Shabab to control both banks of the waterway...

A Narrow Strait, A Global Crisis: Barely thirty-three kilometres separate Iran from Oman at the narrowest point of the Strait of Hormuz. Yet this slender waterway commands the attention of governments, financial markets and military...

Taiwan’s Urban Resilience Exercises run from April through August, revealing a doctrine in which the battlefield is society itself. Early in July, in the mountainous county of Nantou, more than 370 Taiwanese officials rehearsed...

When we think of military training, we often conjure up images of boot camps with muddy cadets going through physical training or rifle drills. There is, however, another side to military education: the classroom,...

“3-D lattice Luneburg lenses had been fitted on the ‘Lakshay’ pilotless target aircraft (PTA) and launched into Pakistan; it was made to loiter near the Pakistani border but on the Bharatiya side during ‘Op...