The decisive story of the 21st century is currently unfolding in the Persian Gulf. What was seen as another flare up between the US, Israel, and Iran has caused a structural shift in international relations. This conflict signals the weakening of the US dominated unipolar order and the rise of a fragmented, multipolar world. In this new landscape, power is measured less by military dominance than by energy security, strategic independence, and industrial strength. Iran’s 1979

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 way of expanding beyond its declared aims. The ongoing confrontation involving the U.S.-Israel and Iran, now stretching into its second month, has already outgrown its immediate theatre, unsettling energy markets, rattling allies and inviting a famili

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The Indian Air Force (IAF) on Monday marked the anniversary of Operation Safed Sagar , which was launched during the 1999 Kargil War...

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In contrast to American overreach or Russian brute force, India’s restraint in dealing with Pakistan after the Pahalgam provocation sets...

From Bletchley Park to Pahalgam, governments have long walked the tightrope between truth and silence. But history teaches that in...

How Pakistan’s obsession with Kashmir has boomeranged into ethnic uprisings and secessionist sentiment at home. Even as Pakistan reeled...

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Every time Pakistan’s military elite tries to bleed India, it ends up slashing its own wrist. In his classic treatise On War (1832), the...

President Trump’s decision to suspend military and intelligence support for Ukraine is regarded as the best effort to end the...

There was a time when war films aspired to something greater than the blood-spattered grit of today or tightly choreographed mayhem. They...