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Pyrrhic Peace
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The uncomfortable conclusion emerging from Donald Trump’s understanding with Iran is that while wars are expensive, failed wars are even more so.
After months of military confrontation, repeated threats of escalation and lofty declarations about reshaping the Middle East, Washington...
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What the World Can Learn from India’s 1971 War
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Our country’s conduct in the 1971 War with Pakistan offers several lessons at a time when the principles of peaceful coexistence and a rules-based global order are in freefall.
History shows that any war in the Middle East has a...
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Straitened Times: War, Oil and the Unravelling of Globalisation
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The ongoing Iran conflict is a systemic shock that exposes how fragile the world economy becomes when chokepoints close and diplomacy fails.
“Arthasya mūlam karma,” wrote Kautilya, wealth is the root of all human endeavour. It is a maxim that...
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Donald Trump’s Middle East Somersault
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From dealmaker to belligerent, America’s President risks repeating the history he once sought to escape.
In 1917, Woodrow Wilson, a scholar-president wary of foreign entanglements, found himself drawn into a war he had hoped to avoid. A century on, Donald...
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Iran’s Expanding Arc
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The Islamic Republic’s failed strike on Diego Garcia suggests that even the most secure outposts are no longer beyond reach.
For decades, distance was Diego Garcia’s greatest defence. Marooned in the central Indian Ocean, far from the Middle East’s turmoil...
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