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India has consistently pursued the strengthening and expansion of its engagement with Southeast Asia in recent decades. The announcement of the ‘Act...
The Hyderabad-based Defence Research and Development Laboratory (DRDL) has carried out a sequence of increasingly complex scramjet combustor tests...
At the 2025 Hague summit, allies agreed to raise their defence spending to 5 per cent of their gross domestic product (GDP)—3.5 per cent of this...
This new approach has proven particularly effective in the Lake Chad basin, where violent extremist organisations make full use of the treacherous...
Many high-value and analytical military tasks, such as object detection, signal classification, anomaly detection, route optimisation, and predictive...
Unlike the 2025 China–Central Asia Treaty, the 2026 China–Tajikistan Treaty places explicit constraints on Tajikistan’s external alignments,...
The idea that nuclear energy is well placed to support rising electricity demand from the growth of AI data centres is not new. There is now a growing...
The Coalition of the Willing, made up of Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Ukraine and the United Kingdom, at...
The June 2026 communiqué released following the 11th Energy Ministers’ Meeting held under India’s BRICS chairmanship reflected a growing...
While strategic autonomy remains a central principle of Indian foreign policy, the conditions under which it operates are becoming increasingly...
Pakistan has always tried to influence the internal situation in Afghanistan to suit its strategic objectives. Islamabad’s security-centric approach...
The SIPRI Trend Indicator Value (TIV) is a metric used to measure the volume of international transfers of major conventional weapons, reflecting the...
The contest also shows how Security Council elections have become more competitive. Diplomatic reputation and bilateral partnerships remain important,...
Chile is the largest supplier of critical minerals to India. A major share of lithium, including 32 per cent of lithium carbonate and 41 per cent of...
The pursuit of indigenous Software-Defined Radios aligns with the Atmanirbhar Bharat initiative and removes India’s dependence on foreign radios....
India is concluding these uranium supply agreements with multiple countries for two reasons—to diversify uranium import sources and to meet its...
The Renaming of INDOPACOM The United States of America’s late June 2026 announcement that the official designation for the US Indo-Pacific Command...
In October 2025, the Defence Research and Development Organisation, in collaboration with the Integrated Defence Staff and the three Services,...
Prime Minister Modi’s visits to Australia and New Zealand follow a successful visit by Japan’s Prime Minister, Sanae Takaichi, to India from 1...
The digital ecosystem is increasingly playing an enabling role in disseminating propaganda, incitement and mobilisation in the pursuit of violent...
Europe accounted for the largest share of Israel’s defence exports in 2025, fuelled by its defence relationship with Germany, despite other...
The use of Autonomous Weapon Systems has changed the dynamics of warfare in recent times. The rise of Artificial Intelligence has reshaped military...
While Bangladesh has demonstrated considerable capacity to withstand economic shocks, structural weaknesses include its banking sector, which has been...
The recent Final Operational Clearance (FOC) for the Netra MK1 fleet of the Indian Air Force (IAF) marks a significant milestone for India’s...
At present, the global nuclear energy industry relies on the technique of nuclear fission for energy generation. Here, heavy atoms (say, uranium 235)...
On 16 June 2026, the Pentagon retired a name it had carried for eight years. U.S. Indo-Pacific Command reverted to its older title, U.S. Pacific...
The US–Israel war on Iran has accelerated the reconfiguration of West Asia’s geopolitical and connectivity landscape, heightening the importance...
Raksha Mantri Rajnath Singh visited the Federal Republic of Germany from 21 to 23 April 2026. The visit, coming shortly after German Chancellor...
The anniversary of the arbitral ruling is of particular significance in 2026 as the Philippines is the ASEAN Chair and also coincides with ASEAN’s...
‘Three Types of Terror Groups’ The CT strategy document demarcates ‘three types of terror groups’—narco-terrorists and transnational gangs;...
There is more than one reason why the 2026 NPT Review Conference (Rev Con) failed. Many ex post facto analyses have attributed the failure to current...
President Min Aung Hlaing’s visit to India is significant given that Myanmar’s civil war since 2021 has affected India’s border security and...
India is transforming into a comprehensive development partner and re-establishing its strategic and economic presence in Sri Lanka. China has...
Japan and the Philippines announced they will begin negotiations to delimit their exclusive economic zones (EEZs) and continental shelves (essentially...
The joint US–Israel war against Iran has exposed the fragility of Iran–GCC relations. While the GCC states have displayed a considerable degree of...
Vietnam is departing from its reticence and caution to a pragmatic foreign policy focused on balancing global and regional powers. This strategic...
China’s decision to extend zero-tariff access to imports from 53 African countries marks an important development in China–Africa economic...
Cybersecurity has long been viewed as a support function, largely focused on protecting military computer networks and information systems. This...
India and the Republic of Cyprus have maintained warm and friendly relations since establishing diplomatic ties in 1962. Built on mutual respect and...
In early March 2026, Chinese Premier Li Qiang recommended consolidating and enhancing the ‘Integrated National Strategic System and Capabilities’...