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The debate surrounding aircraft carriers has intensified over the past decade. Precision-guided missiles, hypersonic weapons, long-range drones and Anti-Access/Area Denial...

Introduction Since 2025, the Islamic Republic of Iran has been experiencing significant external and internal turmoil. The crisis began with...

Introduction The ongoing conflict in West Asia, particularly instability in Iran, is reshaping Afghanistan’s political, economic and strategic landscape despite...

As Gulf states reassess their security frameworks and diversify partnerships, New Delhi faces a strategic window to consolidate its influence...

In 2026, the most critical battles are fought beyond the physical territories, it has now become the sovereign domain of...

As the world embraces non-contact warfare, geography reminds India that some conflicts still end with boots on the ground. The...

The Americans should have read Col Rajeev Agarwal’s latest book “Between Tehran and Tel Aviv: Gaza’s Story of Unending War”...

In 2010, during a visit to Taiwan’s National Defence University, I asked a question to a senior Taiwanese academician: How...

INTRODUCTION Some books explain terrorism through ideology. Others explain it through geopolitics. The rarer and more valuable works are those...

Home to an estimated 13% of the world’s undiscovered oil, 30% of its natural gas, and with the potential to...

The die appears cast. Iran, under sustained long-range strikes targeting its leadership, infrastructure, and economic arteries, is under immense pressure....

Introduction The strategic partnership between the Republic of India and the Russian Federation has always functioned as the first and...

Layered warfare is emerging as the defining "system of systems" architecture of modern combat. Driven by artificial intelligence, quantum computing,...

https://twitter.com/netblocks/status/2030180551106195732?s=20 The current escalating tensions, in West Asia, focused on the Islamic Republic of Iran, began with the Assassination of...

As global power fractures and norms erode, the India-EU partnership emerges as a defining convergence- marrying strategic interests with shared...

Why Strategic Connectivity Will Define Economic Strength, Security, and Sovereignty in the 21st Century Strategic infrastructure has emerged as one...

Abstract Space has emerged as a decisive warfighting domain, shaping intelligence, navigation, command and control, and escalation dynamics. For India,...

The past calculations that underpinned the World Order are undergoing a rapid change and some of these fundamental changes are...

Operation Sindoor revealed a less visible but increasingly decisive arena of contestation: Washington, D.C. As Indian strikes unfolded on the...

In late 2025, two American soldiers and their interpreter were shot dead in Palmyra, Syria. Their deaths, at the hands...

The 78th Army Day Parade 2026, held in the heart of Jaipur, marked a turning point in India’s national journey,...

When India and Pakistan meet on a cricket field, the contest is never confined to 22 yards of turf; it...

The Existential Risk of Q-Day As we move into the growing quantum age, the rapid rise of quantum computing is...

Introduction The development of the Burevestnik (nuclear-powered nuclear-armed cruise missile) and Poseidon (nuclear-powered uncrewed underwater vehicle) by Russia has renewed...

Capital Expenditure Layout Breakdown (FY 2026–27) Total Capital Expenditure (Modernisation & Assets) ₹2,19,306 crore ~22% increase from ₹1.80 lakh crore...