Estonia the small Baltic state in Europe and a member of the European Union is leading the way in cyber security. With international cooperation with several states and organizations like NATO, it also organizes an annual cyber security exe...
India's first national maritime security coordinator has been named by the government: retired Vice Admiral G Ashok Kumar. The Indian government has taken significant steps to ensure security and achieve its goal of enhancing coastal securi...
The geopolitical centre of gravity is gradually shifting from the Atlantic towards the Pacific Ocean. The recent development that Australia will deploy nuclear-powered submarines in the Pacific region with the help of the United Kingdom and...
Poland, for NATO, has been the first line of defence, with a multinational battle group has been set both in Poland and the Baltic countries (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania). After the Russian annexation of the Crimean Peninsula, the US also...
Ukraine has been under attack and is looking for the US and NATO support which is not coming. In that context it is important to evaluate US-Ukraine defence ties. For 30 years of Ukrainian independence, Ukraine and the United States (US) ha...
On 22 December 2016, David Cameron announced the referendum on the UK's EU membership, and soon after this, an independent voice is been heard in its foreign diplomacy. The integrated review of security, defence, development, and foreign po...
The history of Indian civilization has been tightly connected to the high seas around its territory. However, many scholars have repeatedly argued that India has a continental bias in its security policy. This led to a neglect of the mariti...
In 2019, a Hollywood action-thriller movie Angel Has Fallen depicted a futuristic scene in which the US President faces a swarm of drones in the middle of a river. To protect the President against the attack, a secret service agent Mike Ban...
The term 'radicalisation' is one of the most important concepts in understanding the nature of violence and conflicts around the world. The case of Sri Lanka is instructive in gaining a better knowledge of the various aspects of Islamic rad...
COVAX is an international alliance for manufacturing, researching and distribution of covid-19 vaccines to those parts of the world which are unable to procure or manufacture them due to poor economies. The COVAX programme is a vaccine init...
With the end of the Cold War and the disintegration of the Soviet Union and a wave of the coloured revolution taking over the region, states like Georgia and Ukraine establishing themselves as sovereign nations, it was hoped that the collec...
A large explosion was reported near Iran's main nuclear facilities in Natanz, which have been the subject of sabotage efforts in the past, but official media stated it was a controlled test. Israel has regularly threatened Iran with militar...
