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High Technology and India-Japan Strategic Cooperation

  The power and politics of technology, and its impact on geopolitics and national security, have become more pronounced with the intensifying Sino-US strategic contestation. Beijing’s Made in China 2025 and China Standards 2035 strategies...

Did India Just Win at the Line of Actual Control?

On February 10, after nine rounds of high-level military talks, India and China began partially disengaging from what was the bloodiest (if not the longest) crisis on the Sino-Indian border in the last 50...

Close Shave for Pakistan; Once Again Escapes to be Blacklisted by FATF

  Generally, the countries which fall in ‘grey list’ try hard to come out of it, however, Pakistan which has fallen thrice in the ‘grey list’ tries not to be downgraded to ‘blacklist’ but makes...

The Dragon on the Back Foot

  The standoff at the Ladakh border between India and China which was triggered in March last year and the subsequent dialing down of tensions and war mongering rhetoric has highlighted the effectiveness of the...

Revisiting Balakot: How the IAF Exposed Pakistan’s Window of Vulnerability

  The daring raid by the Indian Air Force on February 26, 2019 in Balakot, deep inside Pakistan’s Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, didn’t just destroy the training camps of the Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorist group. More significantly, the strike...

Strategic Ramifications of India’s Assertive China Policy

Policy initiations about and against China has always been the most difficult task for India so far. This concern has been prevailing since the eclipse of British colonial rule in the sub-continent and emergence...

President Reviews Tri-Service Guard of Honour at INS Utkrosh

  New Delhi: President Ram Nath Kovind was accorded a formal welcome on his arrival at Port Blair. He was received by the Lieutenant Governor of Andaman & Nicobar Islands Admiral DK Joshi (Retd), Lieutenant...

Why ‘Make-I’ will NOT Make

  ‘Make’ Procedure under the Defence Acquisition Procedure 2020 (DAP-2020), is publicised as the most critical, towards building a robust defence industrial ecosystem and tapping the emerging dynamism of Indian industry in the defence sector;...

India’s Vaccine Maitri – A Unique Friendship by Jabs

  It is very well known that India, in its world view and foreign policy outreach pays great attention to “Share and Care” approach. Despite limitation of resources India continues to provide assistance in capacity...

Why the Indian Air Force Should Not Rush into Stealth

If there’s one area in which China has acquired a significant lead over India it is in the development of stealth fighters. While India’s Fifth Generation Fighter Aircraft (FGFA) venture with Russia crash landed...

Has India Been Checkmated?

  Sri Lanka and India ties have been largely seen from the prism of civilisational ties, kinship and shared cultural and economic relations, Sri Lanka and India’s relationship goes back to ages, but in the...

Turkey’s War on India

In a recent interview to ‘Brighter Kashmir,’ AS Dulat, former head of R&AW eulogised both Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan and Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa. According to him Imran Khan is not...

How China is Fast Catching up with the West in the Race for Air-to-Air Missile Superiority

In recent years, China’s technological strides and development of a wide range of air-to-air missiles (AAM) has prompted some nations to integrate these missiles on their fighter fleet, or simply go in for collaboration/purchase...
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