Opinion

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

On July 25, 2026, Hindustan Aeronautics Limited and Safran signed a deal to manufacture components for the LEAP engine on Indian soil. The move, which happened without much fanfare, represents something the Security and...

The war in Iran is now in its sixth month and there are no signs of it ending soon. The past 175 days have brought about unprecedented crises in the region and its effects...

India has closed the door on a deal Moscow spent more than a decade trying to close. The Defence Ministry has confirmed that the country is not pursuing new Sukhoi variants — a statement...

When Russian mechanised columns rolled into Ukraine in February 2022, nobody predicted they'd be stopped by inexpensive drones and homemade loitering munitions. The Russians had superior numbers, better-trained units, and sophisticated air defences. They...

On social media, the noise against the Rafale never stops. The deal is too costly. India does not get the software codes. The Meteor missile cannot match the range of China’s PL-17. One hundred...

washington and Tel Aviv assumed decapitating Iran's leadership would be a much easier task and it would trigger the same unraveling seen elsewhere, where the US had invaded those sovereign nations. A Misconception Borrowed from...