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Central Asia at the Centre: The SCO, Eurasia and India’s Strategic Opportunity

Lt Gen (Dr) S K Gadeock -
The 26th Summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, held in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, on August 31 and September 1, 2026, unfolded against a backdrop of profound geopolitical transformation. The summit, which coincided with the organisation's...

The Javelin Pivot: Modernising Indian Infantry and the New Frontiers of Indo-US Defence Integration

Dr Mathew Sinu Simon -
The formalisation of the Foreign Military Sales (FMS) agreement between New Delhi and Washington for the FGM-148 Javelin anti-tank guided missile (ATGM) system represents a defining moment in contemporary geopolitics. This deal is not...

From ‘Make in India’ to ‘Owned by India’: Architecting a Sovereign Defence Industrial Base

Hridbina Chatterjee -
For decades, India’s strategic posture was defined by a critical paradox: a nation capable of deploying advanced nuclear assets while remaining one of the world's largest importers of conventional military hardware. The inauguration of the...

Letting Go to Reach Further: What ISRO’s Retreat from Rocket Manufacturing Really Means

Lt Gen Ashok Bhim Shivane -
There is a particular kind of institutional courage in an organisation choosing to stop doing the thing that made it famous. That is effectively what is unfolding at the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)...

Hormuz: Iran’s Lasting Trump Card

Brig Advitya Madan -
The most consequential weapon Iran has gained from the war may not be a nuclear weapon. It is geography. The Strait of Hormuz gives Tehran a strategic leverage that is disproportionate to its economic...

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

Vipul V. Tamhane -
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...

Beyond the Airframe: Reading the Real Signal in Dhaka’s Fighter Deal

Col M V Shashidhar -
For much of this year, the J-10CE story out of Dhaka carried a familiar hedge word attached to it, i.e. reportedly. Reportedly considering. Reportedly in talks. Reportedly up to 24 aircraft. That hedge disappeared...

Building the Power to Choose: India’s Move Towards Strategic Optionality

Lt Gen Rajeev Chaudhry -
The greatest advantage a nation can possess in an uncertain world is not an alliance. It is choice. The world India entered at independence was a world of blocs. The world India entered after...

What if Iran Joins the Mecca Pact

Maj Gen Harsha Kakar -
The Mecca Pact among Pakistan, Turkey and Saudi Arabia has been in the limelight since it was inked. It was announced as a pact akin to Article 5 of NATO, wherein an attack on...

The Forum that Cannot Name the Threat

Vipul V. Tamhane -
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...

Misplaced Euphoria

Pranay K Shome -
In diplomacy, words matter. Words can make or break a relationship when it comes to matters of national and international importance. In that context, the issue of territorial integrity assumes salience, particularly in a...

Mediterranean Encirclement: How India is Countering the Ankara-Islamabad Axis

Dr Mathew Sinu Simon -
A structural revolution is underway in Indian foreign policy. For decades, New Delhi’s strategic horizons were comfortably bound by the geography of the Indian Ocean Region and the immediate threat vectors of the Malacca Strait...

Bishkek Calling: PM Modi’s SCO Gambit Runs Through Tashkent

Asad Mirza -
The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) was founded in 2001, evolving out of the "Shanghai Five" security dialogue among China, Russia and three Central Asian states formed after the Soviet collapse. The SCO gives India...
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