Deepening defence cooperation between Japan and the Philippines through the Reciprocal Access Agreement (RAA) and the Access and Cross-Servicing Agreement (ACSA) reflects an important shift in the Indo-Pacific security architecture. Against...
India’s engagement with the West Asian security architecture has undergone a significant transformation amid shifting regional and global power dynamics. Relations that were once centred on energy security, trade, and expatriate welfare hav...
The South China Sea continues to be among the most disputed maritime zones in the modern international system, a mixture of unresolved claims to sovereignty, dense commercial shipping routes, and strategic priorities on both regional and ex...
India’s political and strategic debates continue to revolve around identity and ideology, yet an increasingly destabilising force remains under-addressed: climate change. This commentary examines how climate stress is no longer a peripheral...
Gone are those days when the major nations were forming friends or foes and fighting some of the most horrendous wars the world has seen. In this new era, states engage in fierce clash for resources, trade agreements, technological innovati...
India’s defence diplomacy has become a key pillar of its contemporary foreign policy, enabling New Delhi to project influence while maintaining strategic autonomy. This article examines how India employs military-to-military engagements, tr...
Since the onset of the current Israel-Palestine conflict since 7th October 2023, tensions have glared up in the Middle East with current geopolitical shifts such as the regional escalation in multiple fronts like Israel's engagement with Le...
As India's strategic role in the Indo-Pacific changes, its ability to credibly and effectively project its military capabilities, based on its defence technologies, becomes increasingly crucial. Of its defence capabilities, the BrahMos supe...
Within the last decade, the Indo-Pacific has become a strategically important region, not only for the US and China but also for major powers like India, Japan, and Australia. The dynamics among the major powers have been complicated by the...
The current framework of security has incorporated Earth’s orbit and outer space as areas of militarization in the pursuance of safeguarding national interests. While the Outer Space Treaty of 1967 has prevented the nuclearization of space,...
The rapid evolution of Autonomous Weapon Systems (AWS) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) has transformed the character of modern warfare while raising profound legal, ethical, and strategic questions. From early semi-autonomous weapons to fu...
IUU Fishing is an abbreviated form of Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated fishing, characterised by fishing in a particular region without taking permission from the Authority, thus evading rules and regulations meant for the safeguard of ...
