"...the timing of Probal Dasgupta’s latest, “Watershed 1967”, couldn't be more propitious."
The Chabahar Port & Complications in India’s Strategic Calculus.
"The recent controversy surrounding India’s exclusion from the Chabahar Port’s Chabahar-Zahedan Railway project has induced a new level of panic among Indian maritime strategists..."
The Indian Navy’s Need for Submarines.
"Recent debates regarding India’s naval strategy have been centred around a shrinking budget, indigenous production capacities and effective force projection..."
Covid-19 & the Pacific Island Nations.
"As the coronavirus pandemic rages across both hemispheres, the Pacific Islands have found very little space on the news lines..."
The Real Outcomes of Chinese Cyber Espionage.
"Industrial and technological espionage is not new to the battleground of global competition; it is well known that during the Cold War, intelligence networks were established by the competing sides to keep an eye on the latest technologies being developed across the Atlantic..."
Covid-19 & Surveillance: Tracing & Monitoring the Pandemic
"Given the vast dimension of the Covid-19 pandemic, states around the world have now begun to use a large number of surveillance tools to trace, monitor and regulate the movements of their local populations..."
Book Review | “Fire in the East: the Rise of Asian Military Power & the Second Nuclear Age”, Paul Bracken.
"Paul Bracken’s book, “Fire in the East” is a brief, yet incredibly insightful examination of the changing dynamics of war in the modern age; specifically new technologies that change strategic paradigms and the influence of those technologies on the countries of the non-west..."
Artillery Against Insurgencies: Lessons from Russia & the US
"Artillery finds its origin in the large battle spaces of conventional war, in clearing, attacking or holding space..."
Book Review | “Mutual Security: The Case of India-Nepal”, Sangeeta Thapliyal.
"Sangeetha Thapliyal’s book, “Mutual Security”, examines the history of the India-Nepal relationship with an emphasis on the unique geopolitical qualities that Nepal, as a landlocked, small-state embodies..."
Book Review | “Toppling Qaddafi: Libya & the Limits of Liberal Intervention”, Christopher S. Chivvis.
"The heightened multi-polarity of the modern world especially in the international realm, hinges on the slowly waning [read: withdrawing] supremacy of the American hierarchy..."