Sri Lanka is on the edge. Faced with an unprecedented economic crisis perceived to be the worst in the island nation’s history, Sri Lanka has been wracked by months of popular protests against the...
Maritime power in India dates back to centuries. The Cholas employed naval power to extend their influence overseas. The Zamorins under Marakkar during 15th century, and the Maratha Navy during the 17th and 18th centuries especially under...
Not Just Another Country
China has a land mass of approximately 5200 km from east to west and 5500 km from north to south. It shares its land border with 14 countries, which is next...
Free Run
China turned a page in its historical evolution in the 1980s when a socialist-communist country started opening up to take a capitalist avatar. The progress that followed was brisk and awesome. Development and...
The Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF) is seeking to rectify multiple problems related to its strength and fleet structure. India's Tejas and China's J-17 aircraft have become embroiled in the resultant tender.
RMAF's Problems
Due to...
On April 14, 2022 two ground-launched R-360 Neptune anti-ship cruise missiles punched big holes in the side of a warship called Moskva, the pride of Russia’s Black Sea fleet which went down to the...
Before independence, the princely state of Jammu & Kashmir had to reluctantly give up the idea of staying independent, primarily because of massive polarisation between the newly-born states of India and Pakistan. The only...
Japan is known as the ‘land of the rising sun’. The country has truly risen to its name. We are commemorating 70 years of our diplomatic relations with Japan, with 2022 being a landmark...
First came the reports of Russia's Su-57 next-generation fighter operating in support of the country's war effort in Ukraine. Then came news of sightings of the stealth fighter over the city of Zhytomyr starting...
In its bid to reduce the sky-rocketing defence pension bill and also to keep the armed forces young, the Government of India has announced a policy of Agnipath recruitment. The policy envisages that recruits...
In fact, for the first time Premier Li’s assertive move on the economic front, has left President Xi, hailed as the tallest leader of the Middle Kingdom after paramount leader Mao Zedong, to fend...
In May 2020, amid the thick of the coronavirus-induced pandemic, when the world was still trying to understand the intricacies of the pandemic and plan a strategy to tackle it, the Indian Army (IA)...
‘Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.’ Defence Forces are a ‘force of deterrence’ and a price that the nation-state pays for unhindered peaceful growth and prosperity of its...