The last year has truly been remarkable in terms of the Indian defence industry. An impetus was given to the establishment of defence corridors and encouragement to startups through IDEX and technology funds to...
The US and its Western cronies such as Canada, Britain, Turkey and Estonia have trained and armed the Ukrainian military for well over a decade and yet Kiev is unable to put up a...
The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the nuclear deal between Iran and the P5+1 countries (Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China, with the USA joining in later), was signed in July 2015 after...
The Germans called it Sitzkrieg. Literally phony war, it means a phase of a war in which there is little or no active warfare. It is now happening on the Ukraine border where reportedly...
Condemnation of the 26/11 Mumbai terrorist attacks and the terror attack at Pathankot together with calls to bring the perpetrators to justice during the recent Quad Foreign Ministers’ Meet at Melbourne attracted much applause....
Ever since its inception, artillery has walked a tightrope between sophistication and ruggedness. Sophistication provides additional capacities at the expense of reliability and numbers, as howitzers tend to breakdown more often due to their...
If 2020-2021 were years when China and USA were in the news, whether for reasons right or wrong, the year 2022 started with attention being shifted from China, slowly and steadily, but USA remained...
The fourth Quad foreign ministers’ meeting attended by Australia, India, Japan and the US was held on February 11, 2022, in Melbourne. The main theme, as earlier, focused on a ‘Free and Open Indo-Pacific’,...
In recent times, we have been hearing a lot about how civil society is being manipulated as a new frontier for the so-called grey zone or hybrid warfare. The issue has far-reaching ramifications as...
Elections in any country cause turbulence and turmoil in the political domain, be it USA, India or even a ‘democracy’ like China. The schedule for the 2022 elections in China, of the new Central...
Since Xi Jinping became the president of China on March 14, 2013, he has been following the footsteps of Adolf Hitler, be it the iron control, barbarity, genocide, establishing Auschwitz-style concentration camps in Xinjiang...
US President Joe Biden and European countries’ leaders fear Russia may invade Ukraine. Some fear that this invasion may take place most probably after the Beijing Winter Olympic Games are over. To counter it,...
Ranking highest among the regional countries in the Global Soft Power Index 2021, the UAE has come a long way from being a US$37 billion GDP in 1985 to a US$450 billion economy in...