From Hormuz to Malacca: India’s Strategic Maritime Fulcrum at Campbell Bay
Amid the on-going tensions in the Strait of Hormuz, this article explores how a potential Taiwan crisis could draw the USA and China into a wider contest, turning the Strait of Malacca into a critical strategic ...
Is the World Entering an Age of Systemic Rupture?
The global order is not drifting into instability; it is breaking with its own logic. Interdependence, once treated as a source of stability, is increasingly a source of risk. Over decades, there has been a silent ...
US–Iran Talks: No Breakthrough But Fortunately No Breakdown Either
Introduction The scheduled Islamabad Peace Talks between USA and Iran began on 11 April 2026. However, within 21 hours the US and Iran delegations flew back without much to show for the negotiations. The press reaction ...
Peace in West Asia
“Do we see rays of hope or is it just a mirage?” I just love the way some people can create a problem and then work so hard to resolve it. The current Gulf imbroglio is ...
From Vishpala to NDA: India’s Unfinished March of Women Warriors
A World Rewrites Command History does not always erupt—it often evolves. Quietly, almost imperceptibly, until a moment arrives that reveals the shift. The rise of Susan Coyle as Chief of Army in Australia is one such moment. Across ...
After Islamabad, What Does Restraint Really Mean Now?
The Islamabad talks did not collapse dramatically. They simply ran out of steam. When negotiations end quietly, it usually signals that the gap isn’t about a single issue. It’s about the lack of room to adjust ...
The Seabed Battle-space War, Water, and the World Beneath the Waves
While wars continue to be fought visibly on land, air, and increasingly in cyberspace, a quieter but potentially more disruptive dimension of conflict is emerging beneath the oceans. The Day the World Goes Silent It will ...
Avoidable Sacking: A Country in Turmoil
The Onset of Frustration The kingdom of Trumpistan appears to be on shaky ground. On 01 April 2026, Trump vowed to bomb Iranian targets hard enough to send them “back to the Stone Ages, where they ...
Two Weeks of Silence: Can a Ceasefire Without Convergence Hold?
Wars rarely announce their turning points. They reveal them quietly, in pauses that appear tactical but carry strategic consequence. The two-week ceasefire now in place between Iran, Israel, and the United States is one such moment ...
Islamabad Accord: A Pause That Skips the Realities for Sustained Peace
The current crisis in West Asia has a long history of hostility and resentment. It developed over many years as the restraint gradually diminished. Iran, Israel, and the United States operated in a tense but manageable ...
When War Comes, Truth is the First Casualty!
It’s my truth versus yours, a battle of narratives. While drones fly, and missiles hit targets, conversations become short and crisp, the more stirring the better, the louder the better, where ‘honesty’ of purpose is left ...
Why wage War when it Costs So Much? Then Rebuilding by the Same Stage Actors?
You first wage war, spend money on arms and demolitions, and when it ends, you spend money again to rebuild what you have destroyed. It is not that simple as it appears. In the interim, you ...
