Commentaries & Articles
Looking Back: From Egypt’s 1967 Operation Lion to Israel’s Operation Rising Lion

‘Rising Lion’, the operation codenamed by Israel and launched recently to target critical assets of Iran, especial the latter’s nuclear facilities and its senior military leadership, has a biblical connect. It’s an expression taken from a ver....

The War that Refuses to Pause: Russia-Ukraine Peace Talks in Crisis

The recent long-range drone attacks by Ukraine across all of Russia on June 1, were nothing less than an epitome of innovative and tactical dexterity. An unprecedented attack, 18 months in the making, with more than ....

BharatE: India’s Immersive Gateway to Global Markets: Future-Proofing Exports Through the Metaverse

Abstract India’s ambition to become a $2 trillion export powerhouse demands more than surface-level upgrades. BharatE — the Bharat Augmented Reality-Assisted Trade Ecosystem — offers a bold, immersive, multilingual, and al....

The New Geoeconomic Battlegrounds and Implications for India

In today’s fragmented world order, geoeconomics has emerged as the principal arena of strategic contestation. Economic leverage, technological control, data governance, and investment flows are now as critical to national power as military capabili....

War Against Terrorism: Whole of the Nation Approach

Prelude The environment these days (as seen through the electronic media) is so charged up with matters military that ‘A’ stands for Akash (the surface to air missile) and ‘Z’ for ZU23 (air defence gun). More strategically orient....

The Significance of the Fourth India-Central Asia Dialogue

The long-pending India-Central Asia dialogue could not be convened at a more relevant time than now. India has taken a decisive yet measured strike on cross-border terrorism perpetrated by Pakistan in the form of Op Sindoor. Central Asia has also lo....

Pakistan’s Growing Baloch Problem

The Baloch people must have followed with interest and some level of satis-faction the successful Operation Sindoor launched by India on Pakistani soil. While Balochistan has for long agitated against the Pakistani establishment, over the past some y....

A Nexus of Pakistan’s Hybrid Warfare and Terror Sponsorship

Operation Sindoor marks a pivotal shift in India’s national security doctrine, comprising a strong, carefully calibrated, and lawful response to Pakistan’s State sponsorship of terrorism. Pakistan’s cross-border terrorism not only impeded borde....

Op Sindoor: Some Thoughts on Ground Based Air Defence

Air and air defence warfare played up prominently during Op Sindoor. Stories about hordes of drones being unleashed by the adversary and their downing by our air defence warriors hogged most of the headlines. In this context, this work attempts to fi....

Re-establishing India’s Information Dominance

On a serene spring day in Kashmir’s Pahalgam Valley—April 22, 2025—the world witnessed two converging catastrophes. The first was the physical horror of a terrorist massacre: twenty six unarmed pilgrims, primarily Hindu tourists, were executed ....

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