Opinion

The Shape of Future Wars

The character of warfare is undergoing one of its most profound transformations since the Industrial Revolution. Emerging technologies, geopolitical competition, artificial intelligence, autonomous systems, cyber warfare, and space-based capabilities are reshaping the future battlespace,...

Future of Warfare: AI, Autonomous Drones and Lessons for India 

The character of warfare has undergone a dramatic transformation over the past few decades. For centuries, military success depended largely on manpower, firepower, and industrial capacity. Today, however, the battlefield is increasingly shaped by...

Pakistan’s Leadership Failures Alienate Balochistan Population 

On May 24, the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) claimed responsibility for the suicide attack on a train carrying military personnel in Balochistan. While the Pakistani army admitted to 24 casualties, including soldiers and their...

Mach 5.5 Fury – DRDO’s Rudram-II Blinds Enemy Radars

India has done it again. On June 02, the country successfully test-fired its own air-to-surface missile, the Rudram-II, off the Odisha coast over the Bay of Bengal. The missile was launched from a fighter...

India’s Drone Shield for the Next Battlespace: Reimagining Layered and Sovereign Counter-UAS Warfare

The character of war is changing faster than the military institutions can keep pace with. The monopoly of the air power is now beyond question on the battlefields of Ukraine, West Asia, the Caucasus...

The Carbon Fiber Trap: Why the Airbus A350 is a Masterpiece in the Sky but a Nightmare on the Ground

The Airbus A350XWB is one of the most modern passenger planes flying today. What makes it special is that nearly 53% of its body is built using lightweight carbon-fiber composite materials instead of the...

From Himalayas to Indo-Pacific: Theatre Commands and India’s Eastern Vector

In August 2025, while addressing a gathering in Florida, Pakistan's Army Chief Field Marshal Asim Munir declared that any future conflict with India would not remain confined to traditional battlefields. He spoke of a...

Dissecting Quad Foreign Ministers Meet

Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi, and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio attended the Quad Foreign Ministers’ Meet in New Delhi on May 26,...

Women’s Role and Contribution in the Indian Maritime Industry and National Security

In 1923, the Indian shipping industry observed an important development with the appointment of Sumati Morarjee in the managing agency of the Scindia Steam Navigation Company at the age of 14 years only. The...

Talks with Pakistan are Meaningless

In a recent interview with PTI, RSS General Secretary, Dattatreya Hosabale, mentioned, “If Pakistan is like a pinprick trying to create incidents like Pulwama, etc., we have to answer appropriately according to the situation...

Fortifying the Neck

There are places on the map whose importance far exceeds their size. The Siliguri Corridor is one such place. Barely 20 to 22 kilometres wide at its narrowest point, this narrow tract of land...

Reimagining Border Security

India’s current transition in border management marks a significant doctrinal shift from perimeter defence to continuous domain awareness. The recent articulation of a smart border architecture signals that sovereignty is no longer protected solely...

Democracy Was Never Built for Algorithmic Civilisation

The Day Public Opinion Became Programmable: Democracy was designed for an age of newspapers, public debate and human-paced politics. It was never designed for an age where algorithms can emotionally influence millions within hours...
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