Maps, Mountains and Manoeuvring: The Lipulekh Equation
The Opening Signal — Assertion, Not Accommodation The resumption of trade through Lipulekh Pass after a six-year pause is being read in some quarters as a routine administrative step. It is not. It is a calibrated ...
The Bombing of Omid Drug Rehabilitation Centre, Kabul
Air Strikes The night of 16 March 2026, saw a sharp escalation in tensions between Afghanistan and Pakistan, as a result of a Pakistani air strike on the Omid Drug Rehabilitation Centre, in Kabul. The incident ...
Nepal’s Political Upheaval: Reshaping Himalayan Geopolitical Stakes and How India Must Respond
“Nepal’s elections were not a routine democratic exercise-they were a generational revolt against a political order that had run out of legitimacy” Prelude: The Collapse of Nepal’s Old Political Order Nepal’s recent elections mark one of ...
The Perpetual Paradox of Brinkmanship.
Why World War III Has Not Begun? When War and Peace are Chasing Each other in circles, will they catch up? And, when? Fear overrides our passion for power. And fear has built a world where ...
Trump’s Exit from Iran: When Power Retreats Faster Than Strategy
The United States is considering stepping back from confrontation with Iran, but the language of success is arriving faster than the reality of strategy. President Donald Trump’s recent message does not read like closure. It reads ...
An Unjust War: Best Strategy Now is Win-Win Exit
A War That Refuses to Be Short The war was never meant to last this long. In Washington’s strategic imagination, this was supposed to be swift—clinical, decisive, almost demonstrative. A calibrated show of force, a shaken ...
Kharg Island: The Illusion of Decisive Victory and the Certainty of Strategic Disaster
The real risk in seizing Kharg Island is not the assault; it is what follows. The possible military operation by the United States to capture Kharg Island, the oil export centre of Iran, is a strategic ...
When Oil Stops Speaking the Language of the Dollar: Is the Global Financial Order Transforming?
For the past half-century, the global energy market spoke in a single financial language: the U.S. dollar. Few international arrangements shaped economic power so quietly yet so profoundly. The foundations of that system were laid in ...
US-Israel-Iran: Who is losing the perception war?
Bereft of the traditional support from its Western allies, the US finds itself isolated in their war effort. One can almost hear the mutterings of scorned lovers, “Not my circus, not my monkeys”. The US-Israel-Iran war continues, ...
Air Defence in a Missile-Dominated Battlespace
Introduction: The New Strategic Paradigm The wars of the twenty-first century are increasingly being shaped by the trajectory of missiles, the persistence of rockets, and the saturation of drones rather than conventional manned aircraft alone. From ...
The Unethical Sinking of IRIS Dena
The Attack In the early hours of 04 March 2026, a Mark-48 heavyweight torpedo hit the Iranian Naval Ship IRIS Dena beneath her keel. The ship was in international waters about 20 nautical miles South West ...
The UN Paradox: Power, Paralysis and Global Governance
The Organisation the World Cannot Replace A cynical line often circulates in diplomatic circles: “If you ever feel useless, think about the United Nations.” The remark is harsh, yet it captures a widely shared frustration. The ...
