Opinion

Within the space of a single week, Ukraine lost two of the men who had come to symbolise its evolving military doctrine. On July 15, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy dismissed Defence Minister Mykhailo Fedorov, the...

On July 26, 1999, 27 years ago, the guns fell silent after 83 days of intense fighting on the Ladakh and Karakoram ranges in the Himalayas. Then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, admiring the...

In the space of just a few days in May 2025, Operation Sindoor reshaped several assumptions about South Asian air power. Launched in response to the Pahalgam attack of April 22, which resulted in...

Reports of Pakistan and Kuwait moving towards an expanded defence partnership have generated considerable interest across strategic circles in South Asia and the Gulf. Although military cooperation between Pakistan and the Gulf monarchies is not...

In May 1999, Indian shepherds noticed movement on the icy heights above Kargil. Within days, the Indian Army realised they were not ordinary infiltrators. Pakistani regulars from the Northern Light Infantry had occupied ridgelines...

The latest US-Saudi Arabia nuclear agreement, formalised under Section 123 of the US Atomic Energy Act, gives American firms legal access to build out Saudi Arabia's civilian nuclear programme, alongside separate bilateral safeguards accord...

At first glance, the on-going CJP protest appears to be another episode in India's vibrant democratic tradition - citizens expressing dissent over a contentious public issue. Yet, as reports of violence, attacks on police...

On July 6, 2026, China fired a long-range ballistic missile in the South Pacific. The missile fired from a nuclear-powered submarine carried a dummy or simulated training warhead and landed in designated waters in...

The entire world is tired of hearing President Donald Trump screaming victory and going back to war the next day. It is equally sick of listening to his claim that the US has destroyed...

In the annals of Indian military leadership, few transitions carry the weight of symbolic and substantive continuity as the assumption of command by General Dhiraj Seth as the 31st Chief of the Army Staff...

International relations have been instrumental in great power rivalries. Throughout history, several contests among a multitude of formidable state actors have generated consequential outcomes for the world order. In the third decade of the...

India's vision of the Indo-Pacific has evolved over the past decade from a primarily Indian Ocean-centred maritime doctrine into a comprehensive and multidimensional geopolitical strategy. Today, India's Indo-Pacific approach has attracted significant attention among...

Every few months, a fresh set of figures arrives confirming that India's defence sector is expanding rapidly. The latest, drawn from a Kotak Institutional Equities report, projects that defence capital expenditure will grow by...