India’s Strategic Imperative: Reform, Integration, and Rapid Response
The creation of CDF and the placement of all forces, together with their multidomain integration, are likely to result in a faster response (including...
Pakistan’s New Command Era: Soft Coup in Pakistan: Military Takes Charge Pushing Aside Political Establishment
Pakistan is once again in the midst of political drama marked by the midnight heist of the jailed PM from a hospital and his...
From Kargil to Operation Sindoor: Pakistan’s Strategic Evolution and the Implications for India
The strategic environment facing India today echoes 1998–99 in unsettling ways, yet it is more complex and dangerous. The period preceding the Kargil conflict...
Mecca Defence Pact: A Hedge Against Uncertainty, Not an Islamic NATO
The Saudi-Turkey-Pakistan Mecca pact is a security arrangement that reflects a Middle East in transition. For India, its significance lies less in the military...
China, India, and Strategic Choice
Often strategic discourse in India revolves around understanding of Chinese power as “expansionist" or "status quo." This is central to understanding how it will...