As two major emerging powers, India and China are maritime-oriented nation-states. New Delhi and Beijing have a unique set of vested interests in the Indian Ocean region (IOR). Geostrategic supremacy…
By Jay ManiyarThe controversial visit to Taiwan (2nd August 2022) by the US Speaker, House of Representatives, Nancy Peloci is over but has left some questions unanswered. Meanwhile, the visit’s fall out…
By Achal MalhotraHow much the world is nearing a catastrophic confrontation and how intimidated China feels about the response to its coercive aggression in the Indo Pacific, was made evident by the…
By Lt Gen Syed Ata Hasnain (Retd)The last two years have seen geopolitical turbulence of higher intensity than what one can remember any time in the recent past. Perhaps the period 1989-91 was comparable, as the…
By Lt Gen Syed Ata Hasnain (Retd)Honolulu (US), Apr 13 (PTI) Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has arrived in Hawaii for a brief visit to the Headquarters of the United States Indo-Pacific Command, a unified combatant command…
Washington, Mar 10 (PTI) Tensions between India and China along the Line of Actual Control are the "worst" in over four decades, a top American Admiral has told lawmakers during…
The 19th edition of India-US Military Cooperation Group (MCG) meeting was held in Agra, Uttar Pradesh on March 01-02, 2022. The meeting was co-chaired by Chief of Integrated Defence Staff to…
President Putin's recent visit (4th February) to China and its overall outcome has further consolidated the global geo-political and geo-strategic polarisation, the contours of which had emerged some years ago.…
By Achal MalhotraIt was Regis Debray who wrote that "we are never contemporaneous with the present", and that the past intrudes and succeeds in diluting our understanding of the realities of the…
By Prof Madhav Das NalapatIn mature democracies, the relationship between the foreign service and the Navy is symbiotic, with each service wishing the best of health to the other. In India, the relationship started…
By Rear Admiral K Raja Menon (Retd)The first-ever in-person summit of the four leaders of the Quadrilateral Framework (Quad) in the Indo-Pacific on Friday in Washington marks a critical milestone for the consultative framework since it…
By Commodore Abhay Kumar Singh (Retd)New Delhi [India], August 25 (ANI): The head of the US Indo-Pacific Command has said that China's military expansion, the largest military build-up in history since the second world war,…