Iran: The Impossibility of Defeat Rather Than Pursuit of Victory
Introduction On 01 March, Abbas Araghchi the Iranian Foreign Minister described Iran's defence strategy in a post on X: “We've had two decades to study defeats of the US military to our immediate east and west ...
NATO’s Defining Decade: Strength Without Certainty, and the Lessons for India
The 36th NATO summit, which concluded in Ankara this week, will be remembered less for its declarations than for the contradiction it exposed. Leaders arrived pledging accelerated progress towards spending five per cent of GDP on ...
Andaman and Nicobar the Strategic Significance of the Islands India Almost Lost
An Overview The Andaman and Nicobar Islands are a submerged mountain range. They are geologically part of the Arakan Yoma (also called the Rakhine Mountains) mountain range of Myanmar, which extends southward into the Bay of ...
How Iran was Able to Impose Costs in Response to the US & Israeli Attacks
Introduction The Memorandum of Understanding is in place but the kinetic attacks have not stopped and the volcano remains bubbling. The war demonstrated that the US and Israel could strike Iranian targets at will and with ...
The War for the Last Ice
How the Arctic is Emerging as the Twenty-First Century's New Geopolitical Battlefield For centuries, the Arctic was nature's fortress. Locked beneath an impenetrable shield of ice, it remained beyond the reach of commerce, conquest and competition ...
Conflict Termination & Iran War
Introduction While active hostilities have halted in Iran and a “Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding between the United States of America and the Islamic Republic of Iran” has been signed electronically by US and Iran, many of ...
Violent protests in PoJK reflect the pulse of present day Pakistan
Introduction Pakistan is witnessing violent protests in Pakistan Occupied Jammu & Kashmir (PoJK) for the second time within a year. The protests are being led by the Joint Awami Action Committee (JAAC), which comprises individuals from ...
THE WINNERS, LOSERS AND SURVIVORS: Decoding Strategic Consequences of the US–Iran MoU
Wars usually end with a victor and a vanquished. Diplomacy, however, is far more complicated. It often produces outcomes where every participant claims success, every stakeholder interprets events differently, and historians spend years debating who really ...
The Swiss Accord and the Limits of American Power
The fourteen-point digital accord signed by the United States and Iran in Switzerland this week will undoubtedly be celebrated as a diplomatic success. The immediate reasons are obvious. The guns have fallen silent, the Strait of ...
India’s External Sector: Resilient but Vulnerable
India’s external-sector position cannot be understood in isolation, in silo, from the profound changes occurring in the global economy. The post-Cold War era of increasing globalisation, relatively free capital mobility and stable trade relationships is gradually ...
Us-Israel-Iran War: Failed Negotiations & Realistic End State
Introduction As the situation is once again spiraling out of control as on 8 June 2026, there are a number of factors that are responsible for it. At the foremost one would hold Donald Trump accountable ...
Is Washington Fighting Forced Labour or Protecting Its Markets?
Washington's decision to propose a 12.5 per cent tariff on imports from India and dozens of other countries has been framed as a response to inadequate action against forced labour. On paper, that sounds principled. In ...
