“It is the Collapse of US will……..They (Afghan People) know that Taliban was supported by ISI of Pakistan……….they also know that whole defence budget of Pakistan was supported by US financial aid…….US had the...
Eleven days changed the fate of Afghanistan much faster than expected as the US withdrawal date seemed to have been advanced by a month instead of 9/11 - the 20th anniversary of the Twin...
The world is terrified as well as astonished. How the Taliban with a force of around 75,000 guerrilla fighters could so easily take over entire Afghanistan being manned by close to 3,00,000 trained soldiers...
The Indian Air force (IAF) is undergoing a phase of rapid modernization more so due to the ongoing India-China faceoff. Air-power would be the most important factor in any scenario especially against China, as...
The liberal order is once again in acute crisis, this time the focal point is Afghanistan. While a lot of articles, books and monographs have been written over the years, yet hardly any writer...
US President Joe Biden is adamant that America has achieved its aim in Afghanistan and that there are bigger threats than Taliban. He did not qualify whether the bigger threats are from China, Russia...
The cat is finally out of the bag. The much spoken about Afghan National Defense Forces (ANDF) have capitulated to a rag tag outfit of the Taliban fire fighters in less than 15 days....
Psychological warfare, perception management and other forms of undeclared hybrid warfare is now the preferred warfare techniques. Under the existing provisions of Article 39 of UN Charter read with article 41 and 42 makes...
The Indian Armed Forces has been undergoing rapid modernisation over the years. There has been a progressive upgradation of our weapon systems and platforms in keeping with our threat perceptions. However, due to budgetary...
As August 9 marks the 50th anniversary of the historic Indo–Soviet Treaty of Peace, Friendship and Cooperation signed between India and the Soviet Union in August 1971, the relations can be best summed up...
It is coming back to where it all started two decades ago. The Taliban this time is in the driver’s seat, it is on a relentless northward march taking town after town, district after...
The planned withdrawal of the US forces from Afghanistan commenced last month and resulted in an unprecedented crisis in this land-locked country. No sooner as this happened, the Taliban went on an all-out offensive...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi stating that the Indo-US “growing security and defence cooperation is very important,” is indeed significant since defence relationship has emerged as a major pillar of India-US strategic partnership with the...