The recent visit of Russian President Vladimir Putin to Delhi for the Covid-interrupted 21st annual India-Russia Summit was made possible by some hard-nosed calculations based on realpolitik. The meeting's timing, right before the Biden-Put...
For centuries, technological revolutions in weapons have changed the nature of warfare, affecting the balance of power and strategic stability. However, a majority of public reports around hypersonic glide vehicles are deceptive. They are n...
The region of East Asia has become an epicentre of conflicts primarily because of China’s growing military dominance and North Korea’s increasing missile arsenals. These efforts of China and North Korea are leading the region of East Asia t...
The world encountered deepening of ties between Japan and Taiwan with the opening of 7th Japan- Taiwan Exchange Summit held in Kobe city in November. This year’s summit will be engraved in the history of Japan – Taiwan relations. Both count...
The seeds of Vietnam's military modernisation programme were sown shortly after the Socialist Republic of Vietnam was established in 1976, when the country was attacked by its giant neighbour, the People's Republic of China. Following Hanoi...
In the first week of October, one of the US Navy’s prized nuclear submarines collided with an unknown object while patrolling the South China Sea (SCS). A Seawolf-class fast-attack submarine, the USS Connecticut slammed into the submerged o...
Ever since China has set on an unprecedented wave of growth and development, no move by it fails to make it to the global headlines and causes uproars regularly. China has left no domain untouched from its reach and is relentlessly followin...
After both countries tested ballistic missiles hours apart, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's powerful sister slammed South Korean President Moon Jae-in and warned about the "total destruction" of bilateral relations. Kim Yo Jong, Kim'...
The developments in South China Sea have been a matter of concern for all the littoral countries in its periphery as well as the dialogue partners. This year has been very eventful in the context of tensions between US and China in th...
The developments in the last five years in South China Sea has gained international attention following the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) ruling in favour of the Philippines. The ruling clearly stated that the China’s claim of nine d...
AUKUS is less surprising, but it does point to a historical pattern in Australia's troubled submarine history. Prior to the deal's implementation in 2021, Australia had agreed to purchase 12 conventional submarines from France, but this has...
International Politics have always been a fancy tale of the power competition among the super powers. Although, deep mining of the ‘International Politics’ literature illustrates us about the difference between the two powers, the one is th...
