Opinion

Fordow and the Firestorm: Why India’s West Asia Moment Has Arrived

Lt Gen Ashok Bhim Shivane -
A History That Refuses to Fade: For those watching the events of June 2025 unfold with shock, history offers little comfort. The United States’ latest kinetic venture is not an aberration but part of a...

Operation Rising Lion: West Asia Becomes War Zone

Col Alok Mathur SM -
In the wee hours of Friday, 200 war planes of the IDF took off from various Air bases in Israel and flew over Syria, Jordan and Iraqi airspace and carried out lethal air strikes...

The US-Pakistan Nexus: A Strategic Signal India Mustn’t Ignore

Lt Gen Ashok Bhim Shivane -
Field Marshall Asim Munir, the architect of Pakistan’s terrorism factory, met President Trump over a luncheon meeting and is also expected to meet Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth during...

From Ahimsa to Armament: Operation Sindoor Redefines India’s Strategic Posture

Rakesh Krishnan Simha -
Indians feel a sense of pride when they talk about Dharma Yuddha – the Hindu Code of War, which lays out strict rules for fighting for both sides. The Vedas laid out thousands of...

The Perils of Globalisation

Pranay K Shome -
As an idea, globalisation dates back to ancient times when seen from the perspective of different civilisations. In India’s case, it was the Indo-sphere, in China’s case it was the Silk Route. For the...

Operation Rising Lion: Role Of The “Enemy Within”!

Col Rajinder Singh -
"There are four kinds of dangers to a nation state. First, which is aided and abetted from inside; second, which is aided and abetted from outside; third, which emanates from outside but abetted from...

Op Rising Lion to Op Sindoor 2.0: Six Lessons for India’s Next Round

Lt Gen Ashok Bhim Shivane -
The Era of Stand-off Attacks: At 06:30 a.m. on June 13,  2025, the Israel Defence Forces lit the desert sky with the opening salvo of Operation Rising Lion. More than two hundred fighters, many of them stealth F-35I...

The Terror State Leading the War on Terror? A Global Farce with Blood on Its Hands

Lt Gen Ashok Bhim Shivane -
When a terror enabler like Pakistan is made vice-chair of the UN’s Counter-Terrorism Committee, it is not just hypocrisy, it is an act of betraying every victim of terror. Global justice has not just...

Changing Warfare: An Assessment of India-Pakistan Drone and CUAS Capabilities

Joseph P Chacko -
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and counter-unmanned aircraft systems (CUAS) were deployed on an unprecedented scale by both India and Pakistan during the 2025 conflict, which marked a turning point in the military history of...

Truth on Kashmir: Masked in Pakistan’s Lies

Col Rajinder Singh -
With the inauguration and opening up of the rail link, from Katra  to Srinagar, by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on June 6, 2025, Jammu and Kashmir has truly opened up to the rest of...

The Unsurprising Cracks in Pakistan’s Chinese Shield

Aditya Bhan -
On May 7, 2025, the Indian military required merely 23 minutes to breach Pakistan’s Chinese-supplied air defence network. The Indian Air Force (IAF) successfully evaded, jammed, and in some cases destroyed the imported air...

Tackling Türkiye’s Tilt

Dr Manjari Singh -
India-Türkiye relations have reached a new low, with New Delhi adopting a calibrated diplomatic distancing strategy in response to Ankara's perceived support for Pakistan. This downturn is rooted in Türkiye's political, ideological and military...

The New Face of War Is Cheap, Smart, and Already Among Us

Col Nidhish Bhatnagar -
In an age where a child can fly a drone and a teenager can write malware; the global battlefield has been fundamentally and permanently transformed. The cost of war has collapsed. Its tools have...
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