Last week, the newly elected president of the United States (US), Joe Biden, delivered his first foreign policy speech, with the aim of resetting America’s foreign policy agenda after four years of Donald Trump’s...
Since the first appearance of the armored fighting vehicles (AFV) in the first World War, AFVs took a major part and dominated campaigns and wars while operating in various rough environments worldwide.
Today's AFVs face...
After almost eight-nine months of breathing down each other’s neck, the two giants of Asia, India and China, have agreed to disengage militarily in Eastern Ladakh. And on February 10, began the process of...
The World is in disarray. Multilateralism at its lowest point and Unilateralism dictating the international discourse especially as the sole hyper power under US President Donald Trump created a paradigm shift with his destabilising...
Great historical progress always happens after major disasters. I believe it’s a high time we start taking these words by President Xi Jinping seriously.
It’s been more than a year since the Coronavirus outbreak which...
The February 1 coup in Myanmar leading to the country being taken over by the Tatmadaw (Myanmar Military) and placing under house arrest the leader of the National League for Democracy (NLD) Aung San...
India’s net defence budget of Rs 4,78,195.62 crore for the Financial Year (FY) 2021-22 is only Rs 6,817.62 crore more than the current FY’s budget estimate (BE). This paltry increase is ironic because the...
Even as Finance Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman, unveiled India’s Union Budget for the financial year (FY) 2021-2022 in Parliament on February 1, there was no statement on the allocation of the defence budget, the absence...
Myanmar has once again gone back to rule by military junta, after 10 years of experiment with democracy. The coup took place on 1 February 2021, just a day prior to the swearing in...
General Min Aung Hlaing, Commander in Chief of powerful Myanmar army which is also known as Tatmadaw staged a coup on February 1. The army took control of Myanmar, civilian leadership including Aung San...
Pakistan has been marginalised and sidelined by the world for its activities of harbouring and training terrorists. Pakistan projected itself as the messiah of Islam and protector of the religion in the world and...
The Defence Budget FY 2021-22 has been a damper to national defence with the realities of its inadequacies far outweighing the politically stated positives. Indeed it is well understood that to revive the economy,...
If the COVID-19 pandemic has taught us anything, it is that global responses are needed to confront diseases that can spread around the world with stunning speed. It is no wonder, then, that the...