Opinion

Reopening of Himalayan Passes Matters More

Neeraj Singh Manhas -
On the morning of August 1, 2026, a column of traders led their horses through the thin, cold air of the Shipki La pass in Himachal Pradesh's Kinnaur district, watched over by soldiers of...

China’s Achilles’ Heel: Making Coercion Costly

RA Editorial Desk -
China has perfected the art of strategic incrementalism. A patrol here, a road there, a new map, a renamed mountain, a temporary transgression, a new administrative claim — and each action appears too small to...

“US Territory” by Tweet: Trump’s Hormuz Fantasy Meets Iran’s Hard No

Asad Mirza -
Nearly six months into the US-Israel war on Iran, the Strait of Hormuz has become less a shipping lane than a rhetorical battlefield. This week that theatre reached a new pitch: Donald Trump posted...

Beyond Roads and Runways

Dr Aruna Prakash -
India's Bharat Forge Limited has entered into a strategic partnership with French-Canadian heavy-lift airship developer Flying Whales to bring advanced 60-tonne airships to India. This move aims to create a new logistics platform for...

How Military AI Outran the Rulebook, Uncovering the Governance-Diffusion Gap 

Vipul V. Tamhane -
While the diplomats in Geneva were debating what exactly counts as an autonomous weapon, people on the ground were already putting AI to work for all kinds of things. They use it to forecast...

Modernisation of Artillery: Pace Needs a Push

Maj Gen Harsha Kakar -
Pakistan has deployed the majority of its 250 Chinese-manufactured SH-15 truck-mounted artillery guns along the border with India. This is the export version of China’s PCL 181, 155mm/52 calibre gun. Its induction is a...

Stamina, Not Just Firepower: Rethinking India’s War Reserves

Lt Gen Ashok Bhim Shivane -
Every army trains for the first battle. Very few plan seriously for the fortieth day. That gap, between the opening salvo and the long grind that follows, is where wars are won or lost....

India’s Border Rail Sprint

Neeraj Singh Manhas -
A number has been circulating this week that overstates its own subject by two orders of magnitude: India is not spending $450 billion on border railways. It is spending up to ₹45,000 crore — about $4.7...

The Launch Moment for India’s Sixth-Generation Combat Air Programme Has Arrived

Pranav Gurav -
India’s debate should no longer be limited to whether it can eventually design a sixth-generation fighter. The more useful question is whether the country can create, during the AMCA era, the technological and industrial...

Trump’s Hidden Message to South Korea

Prakash Nanda -
Only US President Donald Trump can do this. Just hours before his country started the annual joint military exercise with South Korea, one of America's steadfast allies in the Indo-Pacific for more than 75...

When War Writes Doctrine

Lt Gen Rajeev Chaudhry -
In an age of instant commentary, strategic concepts are increasingly packaged around personalities. A successful operation is followed by a podcast, a paper or a television debate, and soon a complex national-security approach acquires...

Beyond the “Islamic NATO”: Decoding the Makkah Defence Pact

Vipul V. Tamhane -
within hours of the Makkah Joint Defence Agreement being signed at Al-Safa Palace on August 7, 2026 the label had already hardened in the headlines: an “Islamic NATO,” a “Sunni bloc,” a nuclear umbrella...

At 80, India is Loved, Feared and Doubted – Often by the Same Neighbourhood

Asad Mirza -
Eighty years ago, on August 15, 1947, India woke up to a freedom it had to build almost from scratch - a fractured economy, a freshly drawn and bloody border, and a place in...
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