
The NATO Summit and Rearmament of Germany
Introduction The 2025 NATO Summit, which took place in The Hague on 24-25 June brought together representatives of all 32-member nations of the alliance. On top of the agenda was an agreement to increase national security ...

Building Resilience and Innovation for Cooperation and Sustainability: Unpacking the BRICS Summit Agenda
The 2025 BRICS Summit, held in Rio de Janeiro, took place against a background of rising global uncertainty and intensifying geopolitical tensions. The 31-page Rio de Janeiro declaration, comprising 126 paragraphs and over 16,000 words, addressed nearly ...

The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act”: A Death Knell for the American Dream
Between the global tariff war and the US Congress’ recently approved One Big Beautiful Bill Act” (OBBBA), which has been renamed the “Big Ugly Bill” by its critics, Trump 2.0 is wreaking havoc on the US ...

The Strategic Shift: India-Israel Growing Relationship
The attacks on Iran by Israel and now the US, has made the world a dangerous place where diplomatic relations will be tested like never before. India faces that moment of truth now, with its growing ...

How Must India Navigate through Shifting Sands of Global Geopolitics
It is intriguing how India has presumably slipped (if at all) from being the darling of the developed World and the leader of Global South to being diplomatically cold shouldered in the run up to and ...

Operation Midnight Hammer: Why India Can’t Look Away
Prelude to a Shockwave On the night of 21/22 June 2025, six B-2 Spirit bombers skimmed Iran’s desert ridges and released the first combat-loaded GBU-57A/B bunker-busters. Simultaneously, two U.S. submarines disgorged thirty Tomahawk cruise missiles toward ...

Operation Sindoor and the Future of India’s Escalation Dominance Doctrine
Introduction Op Sindoor was a seminal moment in the Indian military and statecraft. One of the key doctrinal takeaways of Operation Sindoor was the ‘Escalation Management”. It exemplified both operational art and manoeuvre warfare targeting both ...

Pakistan‘s Budget : Defence Remains Paramount and Privileged
Introduction Post Operation Sindoor the Pakistan Army is back at centre stage. This was clearly evident with the promotion of General Asim Munir to Field Marshal and was reinforced by the overtures made to its military ...

India-US Partnership: The Way Forward in Trump Era
Introduction Relations between India and the United States have witnessed many ups and downs since India’s independence in 1947. In the initial more than 50 years, the relations were largely marred by suspicion and mistrust principally ...

Trump’s World Disorder: Implications and Options for India
Trump 2.0 has raised numerous concerns for both the direction and substantive content of the evolving global order. The decisive victory of both President Trump and his Republican Party in the recently concluded November 2024 US ...