Three flawless trials at Chandipur signal that India's last line of aerial defence is no longer foreign. Rahul PAWA | x – iamrahulpawa On the evening of 27 February 2026, along the windswept test ranges of Chandipur on Odisha's coastline, India wrote a new chapter in its quest for aerial self-reliance. The Defence Research and … Continue reading VSHORADS Delivers India Its Own Aerial Firepower
Indian Prime Minister’s visit to Israel goes beyond symbolism. Substantive outcomes may lead to redrawing alliances in West Asia. Paushali Lass For decades, India and Israel were close yet cautious partners, working behind the scenes. This week, that changed. Prime Minister Modi’s visit did more than make history. It marked dawn of “Special Strategic Partnership,” … Continue reading Narendra Modi in Israel: Friendship Reborn
How a colonial boundary drawn in 1893 planted the seeds of war that now threatens to engulf the entire region and why Pakistan is its own worst enemy. Rahul PAWA | x - iamrahulpawa On February 26, 2026, Pakistani jets struck targets in Afghanistan's Nangarhar, Paktika, and Khost provinces. Kabul retaliated. Islamabad declared open war. … Continue reading Pakistan’s War of Its Own Making: Durand Line, Pashtun Identity, and Terrorist Blowback
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Jerusalem would take bilateral relations to next level, expand engagement on security, technology. Paushali Lass Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Israel on February 25-26 is not a ceremonial by any stretch of imagination. It is a strategic engagement focused on defence alignments, long-range missile collaboration and technology integration … Continue reading Israel, Bharat Tango: Hope for Future
On the 7th anniversary of #Pulwama terrorist attack, we release our new brief on Jaish-e-Mohammed (#JeM): major attacks, India’s counter-terror response, and global actions; UN listings, bans, sanctions, and FATF-linked pressure. It also tracks Pakistan’s retrospective denial and optics, even as JeM's infrastructure persists. A seven-year audit of accountability, impunity, and what constrains terror. PulwamaDownload
Brig Brijesh Pandey Seven years after the Pulwama suicide bombing claimed the lives of 40 Central Reserve Police Force personnel, India’s security strategy still carries the imprints of that national tragedy. The body bags wrapped in the National Flag catalysed the strategic shift. This terrorist attack by Pakistan-based and backed terror outfit Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), from … Continue reading Pulwama@Seven: No Room for Complacency
There is an India-vision lesson beyond missiles. Great powers don't just buy deterrence, they industrialise it, converting national scale into military leverage. Rahul PAWA | x - @imrahulpawa Deterrence is capability in motion. It is measured by one brutal test. Can a force still launch after the first attack? Last September, Agni-Prime gave India a … Continue reading Agni-Prime: India’s Futuristic Rail based Strike Advantage
A Europe that wants to survive Trump-proofing will have to spend more, produce more, and de-risk more. An India that seeks lasting global standing will have to convert demographic and economic scale into defence-industrial outcomes that allies can bank on.Rahul PAWA | x - @imrahulpawa The fracture in the Western security story is no longer … Continue reading The Atlantic Umbrella Is Folding, and Europe Is Relearning Power
Between Washington and Beijing, India Steadily Rewrites the Space Race
Bangladesh may paper over its wounds one by one, but the scars of systematic genocide during 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War will remain permanent. Pummy M. Pandita The 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War was marked by a systematic campaign of genocide carried out by the Pakistan Army and its supporting forces, Razakars, against the Bengali population, pro-independence … Continue reading 1971 Genocide and the Unhealed Scars of Bangladesh
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