North Korea's recent claim of testing a new underwater drone capable of carrying a nuclear warhead has raised concerns in the international community. The state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported that the Haeil-2 Unmanned Underw...
The research paper titled "Analysis of Terrorist Attacks in Pakistan: A Case Study of TTP" examines the trends, patterns, and drivers of terrorist attacks carried out by the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) from 2007 to 2023. The study emplo...
The Indo-French Strategic Partnership has turned 25 years old in 2023. It was launched on January 26, 1998, on President Chirac's visit to India, and it represents both countries' desire to enhance their separate strategic independence via ...
The United States National Security Advisor, Jake Sullivan, had invited his Indian counterpart, Ajit Doval, to the White House to "start the next milestone" in the US-India strategic technology and defence collaboration. Doval was in Washin...
The People's Republic of China's economic ties with Africa up to the late 1970s were motivated by ideological imperatives but the political elite in China now sees the continent's economic ties as a way to advance the nation's development o...
Former Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe unveiled a strategic framework for a free and open Indo-Pacific in 2016 which since 2017 has been propagated as the Free and Open Indo-Pacific (FOIP) strategy. With Southeast Asia being at the heart...
India and the United States of America (USA) due to their shared value interests and the convergence of policies have led to their bilateral engagement being termed a “global strategic partnership”. In the past few years, India’s emphasis o...
The 15th and 16th of September 2022 marked the 22nd annual summit of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. The first physical meeting since the pandemic, this meeting brought ...
For a few days now, news about the Chinese Party Congress has been making the rounds. This is because China's governing communist party is convening its 20th national congress from October 16 to October 22 at the Great Hall of the People on...
Shinzo Abe, the recently assassinated former Japanese Prime Minister, is remembered for his astute leadership and had many impeccable achievements to his legacy. One among those was to kickstart the Japanese military modernization and upgra...
Hybrid warfare can be defined as a form of conflict that in addition to conventional military means includes irregular means of warfare like insurgent groups, guerilla forces, terrorist groups, etc. Such warfare includes both state and non-...
The Case for U.S. Nuclear Weapons in the 21st Century, by Brad Roberts, Stanford University Press, Stanford, California, 2016, $27.34, 340 pp., (paperback), ISBN 978-0-8047-9713-9This book by Dr. Brad Roberts endeavours to study the contemp...
