Ever since China has launched its String of Pearls strategy, the Indo-Pacific has been a center of activity. With every nation in the region, trying to vigilantly guard its territories from China's escalating encroachments, maritime operati...
Radicalisation is a phenomenon which is worrying and sometimes deadly all around the world. It has been 19 years since the 9/11 attacks which shook the world. However, most of the governments have not been able to create offensive/defensive...
On the 23rd of September 2013, the Lebanese port authorities confiscated 2750 Tonnes of illegal ammonium Nitrate, a strictly regulated compound used for fertilizers and explosives; from a Russian cargo ship sailing under a Moldovan flag. Th...
For China securing its energy supply lines and deploying its for operational purposes and anti-piracy missions in Indian Ocean region(IOR) has been a recurrent phenomenon. It has also started to explore possibility of undertaking surveillan...
Iran and China have recently surged ahead with an economic and military deal that will elevate their relationship to a new height. While this has come as a shock to many, in the midst of increasing geopolitical tensions surrounding Iran, it...
“International politics is a nasty and dangerous business, and no amount of goodwill can ameliorate the intense security competition that sets in when an aspiring hegemon appears in Eurasia.” John J. Mearsheimer. Mearsheimer wrote ‘China’s ...
Political transitions in Afghanistan have been fraught with tensions and contestations. While one may think that the transfer of leadership in 2014 from Hamid Karzai to Ashraf Ghani was peaceful, the changes and implications which it brough...
Cyber warfare has been the waging of war by one country against another in virtual domain. As the term needs proper definition and understanding among the general public, so creating awareness is vital to develop cyber architecture. To unde...
The recent Chinese aggressive behaviour and multi-fronted confrontations, from imposition of draconian laws in Hong Kong, to menacingly targeting Taiwan, suppressing of ASEAN-member states in the South China Sea (SCS) region, trade war with...
Amid the escalating tensions in the Indo-Pacific region stemming from China’s display of military muscle and expansionist design, the spectre of a new cold war with the US and China as the two major combatants is drifting the world to a maj...
Islamic State (IS) emerged as splinter group from a faction of Al-Qaeda in Iraq, during a chaotic conflict in 2003 after the United States led invasion. The vision, which still remains constant, is to establish an ‘Islamic Caliphate’, cover...
China has recently declared that its economy is once more on the path to recovery after dealing with the shocks of the Covid-19 pandemic. However, with the Chinese government being known for its want to propagate false information and conce...
