Opinion

  In the past 18 months, there has been a number of significant developments in the new world order which indicate a paradigm shift in the way major super powers like USA, China, Russia, France...

  The modern battlefield environment has become more and more complex. Future operations in the modern battlefield will be characterized by the indeterminate nature of the threats, their adaption abilities, and the dynamic change. The emerging...

  BRAHMOS has been described as the “Brahmastra for the Indian armed forces”. The supersonic cruise missile is not quite in the same league as the mighty weapon of Lord Brahma, but it is certainly...

  There is much in the news about US including India in the multilateral dialogue on Afghanistan while Russia kept India out of it. This rhetoric will heighten with the dialogue on peaceful settlement in...

News reports of December 2020 indicate that the Indian Navy is looking at leasing an unspecified number of mine counter measure vessels (MCMVs) in addition to other equipment to fill critical gaps. For example,...

  It is in the nature of contemporary diplomacy, conducted under the arc lights of 24/7 media obsessed with the ‘breaking news’ phenomenon, that almost every foreign policy engagement is considered ‘historic’. Yet, if any...

  After shunning disengagement beyond first phase on both banks of Pangong Tso in Eastern Ladakh, China has fired the next shot at India; China’s National People’s Congress (NPC) has cleared the construction of a...

  On 12th March 2021, history was indeed made when the four leaders of the so-called QUAD (Quadrilateral Security Dialogue) comprising Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India, PM Scott Morrison of Australia and newly elected...

  Joe Biden’s victory in the last US Presidential election; a bitter one in the democratic history of America was looked rather with a negative approach by a section not only in the United States...

  Nepal has been facing internal political turbulence for the last six months. Ever since the incumbent Premier KP Sharma Oli decided to dissolve Parliament and hold snap elections in April, since then a lot...

  Last month, New Delhi’s regional policy took another interesting turn with the beginning of disengagement along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) and the announcement of ceasefire along the Line of Control (LoC). After...

  The history of arms development in India is littered with the debris of numerous stalled projects. The Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) project was 30 years late; the jet combat trainer has been shot down...

  Recently, Beijing and New Delhi agreed that both - Chinese and Indian troops at the southern and northern banks of the Pangong Tso Lake should start “synchronised and organised disengagement”. A breakthrough coming after...