The U.S. and China have been at odds over security and technology. The recent announcement of several targeted updates to its export controls by the US Department of Commerce has increased tensions even more.
In 2005, Ayman al-Zawahiri as the second in command of al-Qaeda wrote a letter to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi stating that “We are in a battle, and more than half of this battle is taking place in the battlefield of the media” [1]. Earlier, terror...
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...
Political instability has been an integral part of Israel’s landscape. For the fifth time within three years, Israel goes to the polls again in November. The November elections will be its 25th time since its birth in 1948. Only twice befor...
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-...
In the past few years, the term “5th Generation” fighter jet has become commonplace in popular culture. Everyone from casual television viewers to dedicated military analysts has heard of the advanced capabilities of these state-of-the-art ...
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has had a profound impact on the stability of the Ukraine region and for the future of European security, not to forget the immense human suffering. This particularly comes across as a shock in response to Presi...
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...
The IPEF was launched on May 23, 2022 jointly by US and other countries of Indo Pacific region. It was initially composed of 14 founding member nations. Fiji was the first South Pacific Island nation to join the group. The invitation to oth...
Indian interests post-Cold War for Sri Lanka made a shift from a balance of power to more pragmatic security considerations. In the 1980s and 1990s, India was avoiding being engulfed in the Cold War power struggle which led to the negligenc...
After the withdrawal of the United States from the Iran nuclear deal or the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), fresh indirect negotiations are taking place between the US and Iran with the mediation of the European Union. President...
