Beyond the Rallies
Reimagining India’s Diaspora Diplomacy in an Age of Ultra Nationalism and Transactional Geopolitics A Diaspora Under Sustained Pressure The Trump administration has recently suspended eight major technology companies, among them leading Indian IT firms, from the ...
Pakistan’s Yemen Dilemma
Introduction On 05 October 2026 in an emergency meeting, the member states of the Makkah Joint Defence Agreement (MJDA) invoked the joint defence clause and agreed to activate “collective deterrence measures.” A separate joint statement published ...
The Petrodollar Imperative: Is America Seeking to Control the World’s Oil?
The Diesel Paradox On 9 October 2026, President Donald Trump announced that Russia would supply more than 300,000 tonnes of diesel immediately, followed by 500,000 tonnes in November, another million tonnes thereafter, and potentially three million ...
The US Pullout from Iraq Is a Tipping Point
Introduction On 30 September 2026, the last US troops left Iraq, ending more than two decades of US military presence. Since the 2003 invasion, the US-Iraq relationship has been defined by their troop presence. The security ...
America is Lonelier Power: The Price of Strategic Distance
The most revealing part of External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar’s recent assessment of the changing world order was not that the United States is becoming weaker, but that America has “deliberately become a lonelier power.” That ...
Space Domain Awareness (SDA): A Key to Space Warfare Readiness
Space has moved from being a supporting element of military power to becoming a decisive operational domain. Communications, navigation and timing, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR), missile warning, weather, targeting, precision strike and battle management increasingly ...
United Nations: Is It Still Suited for the New World?
Introduction On 22 September 2026, the United Nations (UN) General Assembly began its annual session, with the Security Council divided amongst its five permanent members, over the two waging wars. A few days earlier, the UN ...
West Asia’s Next Fault Line Runs Through Ankara
Prolonged war is pushing regional powers to build their own security arrangements. India needs to be ready The standard picture of West Asia still shows Iran as the main challenger to Israel and the Western order ...
When the Weak Challenge the Strong: India in the Age of Asymmetry
A cheap drone powered by a few batteries can rattle an air defence system that took decades and billions of dollars to build. In November 2008, ten men with rifles and mobile phones held India’s financial ...
Dragon In The Deep Waters
The Malacca Dilemma, the Bay of Bengal and India’s Campbell Bay Imperative For decades, China’s greatest maritime anxiety has had a name: Malacca. Today, Beijing is quietly building geography around that vulnerability—from Kyaukpyu on Myanmar’s coast ...
When the Guarantor Goes Quiet: Saudi Arabia’s Lonely War- America’s Silence, Riyadh’s Reckoning
The Houthi campaign against Saudi Arabia, which began on July 13, 2026, and has not stopped since, is being read across the Gulf as a test of American reliability. Missiles have struck Riyadh. Tankers carrying Saudi ...
Space Weapons: When the Heavens Become a Battlefield
The next war may begin with a satellite going silent On 14 September 2026, as I just stepped into the World Space Business Week at Paris, France , the U.S. Air Force Secretary Troy Meink publicly ...
