Silent Deterrents: India’s Undersea Gamble Amid China’s Indo-Pacific Surge
India’s nuclear submarine program aims to counter China’s Indo-Pacific expansion but faces significant challenges. With only two operational SSBNs versus China’s six, India struggles with limited missile range, stealth vulnerabilities, and infrastructure delays. Achieving credible sea-based deterrence may require 50-60 years amid intensifying regional maritime competition.
India’s challenge, beyond Pakistan
A world beyond its neighbour demands greater Indian attention. Simplistic narratives are of little use to India during a time of flux marked by Trump’s dealmaking and shifting partnerships
Delhi’s new terms of engagement: strike deep, re-open Indus, raise terror cost
Crisis underlines need for defence reform, key to treating next terror attack from Pak as ‘an act of war’
Navigating the tension between India and Pakistan
India can’t duck its regional challenge from Pakistan army’s terror, nor can it abandon new opportunities beckoning on global stage
Aar ya paar: Delhi’s escalation ladder with Pakistan, step by step
For India, managing the military escalation ladder, knowing when and how to terminate the escalation, leveraging the international community, sharpening the internal contradictions in Pakistan will be the key to […]
When Modi meets MbS: A Gulf of opportunities
As PM Modi visits Riyadh, a look Saudi Arabia’s transformation and foreign policy pragmatism