Opinion

The battlefield front line, once a fixed geographic feature, is blurring. For two centuries, it meant a place: a trench, a ridge, or a river line where armies met. Recent operations in Ukraine show...

"Et Tu Brute” – so goes the expression. It seemed this way when news broke that an American company has now interfaced with senior officials of Pakistan’s military establishment for supplying power systems related...

Iran’s ‘Axis of Resistance’ was designed to keep war away from Iranian territory. The irony of the recent conflict is that when Iran came under direct attack, the network did not respond as a...

Civil-military fusion has become an increasingly important phrase in India's strategic vocabulary. It recognises a fundamental reality of modern warfare: the technologies that determine military advantage are no longer developed exclusively inside defence laboratories....

The most dangerous decision in the next major war may not be made by a machine. It may be made by a human who has been given only seconds to decide. For a decade, the...

This was a rare spectacle in the US.  On September 23, President Donald Trump went to the Joint Base Andrews, a highly important military base in Maryland, to receive his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping. After...

The Trump-Xi summit in Washington has ended, but its strategic consequences are only beginning. Over three days, President Donald Trump and President Xi Jinping extended their trade truce by two months, opened a channel...

The earlier drama concerned acquisition; the new reality concerns access. This distinction matters more than the political theatre suggested. Ownership carries administrative, legal and political burdens. Strategic access can deliver many of ownership’s benefits...

In late May 2026, UPS transported a cockpit canopy and weapons-bay door from a Royal Australian Air Force F-35. The parts were headed to the United States for inspection, possible repair, or disposal. Both...

The White House meeting between US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping was less a breakthrough than a negotiated pause. Both leaders had incentives to lower temperatures: Trump wanted economic stability, relief...

Today, the Franco-Indian relationship is arguably stronger and more comprehensive than at any point since 1947. France has become one of India’s most trusted Western strategic partners, with cooperation extending across defence, nuclear energy,...

This August, the Indian Army raised its first Baaz Battalion on the western front. A unit built around drones says more about where the Army is heading than any single purchase order could. Buying...

Batyl Toitarys 2026 exercise is significant not simply because of its size, but because of the breadth of capabilities operating under a single strategic concept. Kazakhstan is testing whether its ground, air and naval...