Opinion

  In recent times there has been a shifting of goal posts by major world powers from other areas of conflict to the Indian and Pacific Ocean. This has largely been due to the Chinese...

  Statecraft and politics is all about making dangerous and risky choices which promotes the betterment of the people and helps in bolstering the popular legitimacy of the state, but it ostensibly appears that Pakistan...

  One of the first policy decisions, impulsive or otherwise, taken by Donald Trump, was to withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). This, however, did not mean that USA had decided to disregard Asia. On...

Now that the Quad’s Washington Summit is over and Aukus has joined the political lexicon, we can perhaps stop plumbing the media equivalent of the Mariana Trench in Indo-Pacific and let the thought nuclear...

It is ironic that it took the Sino-Indian confrontation in the Himalayan heights, more than 2,000 km from the sea, to bring sharp focus on India’s neglected maritime domain. The Chinese were obviously surprised...

With the geo-political environment in the Indo-Pacific region changing very fast, India and Australia have come together to infuse dynamism in their bilateral defence engagement under the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership. Ongoing defence cooperation between...

  The killing of non-Kashmiri labourers in Kashmir has brought the count of civilians killed by terrorists to at least 11 in a fortnight. The IG Police, Kashmir Range, flashed a message to the ten...

  After a decade of dithering, the ministry of defence (MoD) signed the contract with Airbus Defence and Space S.A., Spain on September 25 for acquisition of 56 C-295MW medium transport aircraft. This over Rs...

As any other country with its strategic interests and international standing at heart would, India is thinking about the future of its defence system. Facing adversaries such as Pakistan, and China to an even...

  The formidable Sukhoi Su-30 MKI has been in service with the Indian Air Force (IAF) for nearly 20 years and needs a major upgrade to remain relevant to future air warfare. Codenamed Flanker by...

  It is hilarious to see our newspapers talking of the “wide open” rift  between Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan and Army Chief General QJ Bajwa, and similarly TV channels going berserk with debates inviting...

  Ever Since the trade imbroglio between US and China reached its peak during the Trump’s Presidency (and which was later sustained by President Biden with call for open support for Taiwan), Chinese aggression against...

  Post-independence, the defence industry followed the Nehruvian philosophy on the lines of the Russian model, which treated the defence sector as a strategic sector totally under the government with no interference from the private...