Brig Brijesh Pandey The 1999 Kargil War is remembered as a war India won despite fighting under self-imposed restrictions of ground as well as Air Force not crossing the Line of Control (LoC). That framing, while accurate in terms of the triumph of the brute infantry courage and artillery firepower, screens the uncomfortable question as … Continue reading Kargil Review Committee: Two Decades of India’s Defense Reforms
Bharat and Indonesia’s relationship is defined beyond BrahMos, Astra missiles and port development deals. It’s a defining moment. Dr Gautam Kumar Jha Prime Minister Narendra Modi's state visit to Indonesia last week marks a defining moment in evolution of Indo – Indonesian relations. More than another successful diplomatic engagement under Bharat's Act East Policy, the … Continue reading Civilizational Continuum to Strategic Delivery
Smart borders management with several layers, underground optical fibre sensors, UAV surveillance to curb infiltration; Mission to deal with demographics, fence entire Bangladesh border. Vinod Kumar Shukla Nehru-Liaqat pact had provisions for Muslims migrating to East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) to return till December 31, 1950 if they wished to by offering them many norms that … Continue reading Securing Bharat the Right Way!
Every analyst who measured Operation Sindoor in airbases missed the war. Operation Sindoor was not just a reply to an attack. It was a reply to a narrative. Rahul PAWA | x- @iamrahulpawa To understand Operation Sindoor, begin not in 2025 but in the ideological soil from which Pakistan itself was carved, a two-nation theory … Continue reading Vermilion and the War Cry: What Operation Sindoor Was Really About
Pakistan's 'Mediator Moment' in Iran Crisis may turn out to be more of diplomatic outreach rather than Strategic Opportunism. N. C. Bipindra Pakistan's most visible foreign policy gambits in recent years are its attempts to position as a mediator in the conflict between US, Israel and Iran. Pakistan has stepped forward to host talks, relay … Continue reading Looking for Relevance?
Beijing has spent decades trying to claim a land it has never governed, never administered, and never convinced the world is its own. The infatuation tells us less about Arunachal Pradesh and more about the insecurities driving Chinese foreign policy. Rahul PAWA | X- @imrahulpawa The flight to Tokyo was supposed to be the easy … Continue reading China’s Infatuation with India’s Arunachal Pradesh
No foreign blueprints. No borrowed reactor. No licensed hull. India built its third nuclear-powered submarine from scratch.Rahul PAWA | X - @imrahulpawa The commissioning of INS Aridhaman on 3 April 2026 completes a threshold that India's strategic community has been working toward for the better part of three decades. With three nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines … Continue reading INS Aridaman: Designed, Built and Armed at Home
India's Defence Forces Vision 2047 signals something rarer than modernisation, a change in how the military thinks about war itself.Rahul PAWA | X- @imrahulpawa Something shifted when India released Defence Forces Vision 2047. Not the release itself. Long-range planning documents are neither rare nor automatically consequential. What shifted was the register. This is not a … Continue reading India’s Futuristic Defence Forces Vision for 2047
Post-war uncertainty in West Asia pose serious challenges with jostle for control of oil assets, ruling Iran with an iron fist and Bharat has its task cut out. K.A.Badarinath US President Donald J Trump’s statement on ‘ending the war’ shortly cannot be taken on its face value. Nor do the markets, stakeholders expect the war … Continue reading A Fine Balancing Act!
The next soldier will not bleed, will not tire, and will not hesitate. It is already being built, and the race to send it to war is underway. Rahul PAWA | X - @imrahulpawa In late January 2026, three Russian soldiers emerged from a destroyed building to surrender. There was no Ukrainian infantryman waiting for … Continue reading Race for Deploying Humanoid Soldiers Has Begun
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