India’s sea-based nuclear deterrent depends on concealment, while its expanding maritime partnerships increasingly rely on surveillance and real-time information sharing. It examines the strategic tension between these parallel developments...
For much of its modern strategic history, India has viewed security through a predominantly continental lens, focusing on land borders and territorial challenges. Yet India's geography tells a different story. With more than 7,500 kilometre...
The Western Indian Ocean has emerged as a critical theatre of geopolitical contestation, driven by intensifying competition among regional and extra-regional powers. With China’s expanding maritime footprint, Iran’s strategic assertiveness,...
The sinking of the IRIS Dena on 4 March 2026, following a torpedo strike by a United States submarine in the Indian Ocean, marks a rare and consequential escalation in contemporary naval warfare. Occurring within a neutral state’s Exclusive...
China’s maritime assertiveness is increasingly extending beyond conventional naval power, relying on coast guard operations, maritime militia, research vessels, commercial connectivity and information activities to shape the maritime enviro...
China and Pakistan’s strategic partnership is increasingly extending beyond conventional military cooperation into infrastructure, surveillance and information operations. This article examines the emerging grey-zone architecture targeting ...
As global economic networks become instruments of geopolitical competition, India faces the challenge of protecting its strategic autonomy without withdrawing from global interdependence. In this commentary, Saksham Shukla examines India’s ...
China’s growing maritime presence in the Indian Ocean is raising new questions about the evolution of regional maritime competition and India’s security strategy. Drawing parallels with Beijing’s assertive approach in the South China Sea, t...
The 2026 Quad Foreign Ministers' Meeting in New Delhi marked an important step in the evolution of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue from a primarily consultative forum into a platform increasingly focused on operational cooperation and p...
The expansion of BRICS marks one of the most significant developments in contemporary global politics, reflecting the growing influence of emerging powers and increasing dissatisfaction with Western-dominated international institutions. Wit...
Once viewed primarily through the lens of regional Pacific politics, Fiji has emerged as a strategically significant actor in the evolving Indo-Pacific order. Located at the intersection of critical maritime and air routes across the South ...
India’s assumption of the BRICS 2026 chairmanship comes at a critical geopolitical moment marked by intensifying U.S.–China rivalry, expanding BRICS+ membership, and growing demands for a more multipolar international order. While the platf...
