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Operation Sindoor: Paradigm shift from candle lights to BrahMos

Within 15 days of the Pahalgam slaughter, Team Modi accomplished the explicitly declared mission by hitting nine terror bases in Pakistan and killed over 100 jihadis. Operation Sindoor against Pahalgam attack achieves military, political, psycholo....

Indigenization of Indian Air Force: Strategic Shift in Political Economy

Deja Vu in 2025: Return of the HF 24 Debate
Three and a half decades after India ‘retired’ an indigenous fighter air craft -HF 24 Marut (after using it successfully in war), we are on the brink of a similar situation. These are the i....

Pushed to the Brink: The Alarming Toll of Climate Change on Our Oceans

Coral reefs, often referred to as the “rainforests of the sea,” are among the most biodiverse and crucial ecosystems on Earth. They sustain around 830,000 species[1] - over....

Opposite ends of the Pendulum: Syama Prasad Mukherjee and Nehru on Pakistan and China

It was axiomatic that different ideologies would exist in different parts of the world. The whole world obviously could never be built on one pattern. Syama Babu believed that trouble arose only when ideologies and principles, either peacefully or vi....

A Strategy of Protracted Warfare

Protracted War, as a terminology, theorizes of a military strategy, penned by Mao Zedong, in On Protracted War (1938), emphasizing long-term struggle and attrition, drawing the enemy into favourable terrain, and gradually escalating from guerr....

Dragon at the Doorstep: China's Grip on Cambodia and the Rising Storm in Southeast Asia

Two countries among the ASEAN nations—Laos and Cambodia—are increasingly functioning as scribes for China in return for the generous financial patronage extended by Beijing to their current regimes. Among these, Cambodia, with its relatively grea....

Strategic Shifts and the Panama Ports Deal

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For the past few weeks, all eyes have been on a multibillion-dollar deal that was supposed to be signed early this month and would lead to the transfer of control of approximately 43 ports across 23 countries. However, it has....

Coming of Age - ‘Instruments of Air Denial’

On the night of 23/24 Feb 2022 when the Russians fired the first salvo of the current round in Russo-Ukraine war in the form of a strong pre-emptive air strike complete with strike aircrafts, cruise missiles, multi-barrel rocket launchers and more, i....

West Asian Leaders and Organisations Condemn Terrorist Attack in Pahalgam, Jammu & Kashmir

Adversity often becomes a litmus test for friends. It is also not untrue of diplomacy. For decades, India’s relationship with most West Asian countries has been transactional and only recently due to strategic and increasing importance of India and....

Pahalgam Terror Attack 2025: Unmasking Pakistan’s Proxy Hand in Kashmir

यदा यदा हि धर्मस्य ग्लानिर्भवति भारत। अभ्युत्थानमधर्मस्य तदात्मानं सृजाम्यहम् ॥४-७॥ परि�....

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