Opinion

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

The 26th meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) heads of state taking place in Bishkek, the capital city of   Kyrgyzstan, from August 31 to September 1, 2026, is going to be an important...

Eighty-one years ago, two Japanese cities got turned to ash, and the survivors, the hibakusha, spent the rest of their lives insisting that the world keep remembering what a bomb does to human beings,...

On August 24, 2026, Washington launched Operation Economic Outcast, an aggressive campaign to sever Iran from its remaining economic lifelines. The United States is once again demonstrating something extraordinary: its ability to turn financial architecture...

When a former Intelligence Bureau officer with eleven years in the service sits down for a long, unguarded conversation, the result should be treated as primary-source material. Atul Chandra Kulkarni’s appearance on Jayesh Gangan’s...

A week after Russian President Vladimir Putin’s unexpected visit to the disputed Kuril Islands, Japanese Defence Minister Shinjiro Koizumi arrived in India with aim to strengthen defence cooperation under ‘Japan-India Special Strategic and Global Partnership’,...

A slick infographic has been circulating across strategic-affairs feeds this month. Under a fedora-shadowed spy silhouette and the tagline "Knowledge. Security. Nation.", it ranks the intelligence agencies of twenty-six countries from one to twenty-six. The...

Icommanded 15 Punjab in Lebanon in 2006, immediately after the Israel-Hezbollah war, and saw at close quarters both the resilience of Lebanese society and the weakness of the state institutions around it. Twenty years later,...