In the aftermath of former United States of America (USA) President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s farewell address in 1961, welcoming the development of large-scale industries working on military equipment, the same industries have now been in the...
India’s defence diplomacy has become a key pillar of its contemporary foreign policy, enabling New Delhi to project influence while maintaining strategic autonomy. This article examines how India employs military-to-military engagements, tr...
China has been steadily increasing its defence budget for years, aiming to modernise its armed forces and project power regionally. This concerns some countries, particularly those with overlapping territorial claims in the South China Sea....
Central Asia has always remained a great strategic battlefield among various regional and international powers. From antiquity to the contemporary period the Central Asian Region has always found itself at the core of the international affa...
Xi Jinping, the President of China, has said his “Chinese dream” includes “a dream of strong armed-forces”, which involves modernising the Peoples Liberation Army by 2035, and making it “world-class” by 2049. It has become apparent that ...
NATO and Russia are again at loggerheads concerning the Ukraine issue. Russia with its huge army is knocking at the doorsteps of Europe. The issue of who shoulders the responsibility of Europe’s defence is again at the fore. Looking critica...
The seeds of Vietnam's military modernisation programme were sown shortly after the Socialist Republic of Vietnam was established in 1976, when the country was attacked by its giant neighbour, the People's Republic of China. Following Hanoi...
International Politics have always been a fancy tale of the power competition among the super powers. Although, deep mining of the ‘International Politics’ literature illustrates us about the difference between the two powers, the one is th...
Since June 2021, China has become more aggressive towards Taiwan. China sent twenty-eight warplanes into the Taiwanese airspace in June. Other than sending planes, China conducted assault drills in southwestern and southeastern waters near ...
Japan in response to an assertive Beijing and a belligerent Pyongyang on its doorstep has stepped up engagement in the region through military assistance. However, to fully comprehend what drives Tokyo’s aid, we need to recognize the role m...
In the past decade, Bangladesh has emerged as an important player in China's political expansion strategy. Military cooperation between the two states in form of arms supply and construction of military infrastructure has increased in past ...
With an ever-changing international environment, the very concept of security has been slowly evolving and though there have been drastic advancements in the field of military and technology over the last century, today, the pace has expone...
