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Beyond Resilience: Lebanon’s High-Stakes Path to Real Statehood

Icommanded 15 Punjab in Lebanon in 2006, immediately after the Israel-Hezbollah war, and saw at close quarters both the resilience of Lebanese society and the weakness of the state institutions around it. Twenty years later,...

Dogfight Diplomacy: Why Egypt’s Skies Hold the Key to India’s Fighter Jet Dilemma

In late August 2026, China's J-16s dogfought Egyptian Rafales in a first-of-its-kind exercise, Russia revived its Su-57 pitch to India even as New Delhi signalled the deal was dead, and Turkish and Chinese transport...

Beyond Black Gold

The Strait of Hormuz has once again reminded the world of an uncomfortable truth: geography can suddenly become strategy. A disruption thousands of kilometres away from India can ripple through crude prices, freight costs,...

The Punjabistan Question Among Pakistan’s Converging Crises and India’s Sober Choice

For most of its history, Pakistan has been a crisis state that fought its crises one at a time. What makes the present moment different is that every fault line seems to have cracked...

Redefining India-China Relations: NSA Doval’s Visit to Beijing May Provide the Breakthrough

The visit of National Security Adviser Ajit Doval to Beijing on August 24-25, 2026, comes at a particularly consequential moment in India-China relations. Doval is in Beijing for the 25th round of talks between...

UAS and Missile Warfare Can’t Force the Enemy to Surrender

Significant lessons are emerging about the changing nature of warfare based on the use of UAS (Unmanned Aerial Systems) in ongoing conflicts. These include imaginative use of UAS, which impacted movement on the battlefield...

The Chessboard Before the Fire

Astrategic trap may be taking shape on India's western frontier, and it is being assembled not through declarations but through cargo manifests. Over roughly sixty hours, Pakistani skies reportedly saw a dense sequence of...

The Kashmir Pakistan Ruled but Couldn’t Silence

A revolt over electricity bills, wheat prices and stolen seats in Pakistan-administered Kashmir has exposed the hollowness of Islamabad’s favourite cause. For nearly 80 years, “Kashmir” in Pakistan's political vocabulary has meant one thing: a...

Democracy Handed Over in Ink: Pakistan Formalises Military Supremacy

Pakistan's Parliament has just done what its army could never achieve with a tank on the street. It has legislated a coup and called it reform. On August 21, 2026, the National Assembly passed...

Reopening of Himalayan Passes Matters More

On the morning of August 1, 2026, a column of traders led their horses through the thin, cold air of the Shipki La pass in Himachal Pradesh's Kinnaur district, watched over by soldiers of...

China’s Achilles’ Heel: Making Coercion Costly

China has perfected the art of strategic incrementalism. A patrol here, a road there, a new map, a renamed mountain, a temporary transgression, a new administrative claim — and each action appears too small to...

“US Territory” by Tweet: Trump’s Hormuz Fantasy Meets Iran’s Hard No

Nearly six months into the US-Israel war on Iran, the Strait of Hormuz has become less a shipping lane than a rhetorical battlefield. This week that theatre reached a new pitch: Donald Trump posted...

Beyond Roads and Runways

India's Bharat Forge Limited has entered into a strategic partnership with French-Canadian heavy-lift airship developer Flying Whales to bring advanced 60-tonne airships to India. This move aims to create a new logistics platform for...
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