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India’s Great Nicobar Project Faces Uphill Climb
Indian policymakers and analysts often tout the critical role the Andaman and Nicobar Islands (ANI) can play in safeguarding national security and operationalizing New Delhi's Indo-Pacific strategy. Considering their close proximity to the Malacca Strait, through which roughly one-third of…
Confronting Pakistan’s Deadly Trifecta of Terrorist Groups
After more than two decades as a frontline state in the Global War on Terror, Pakistan continues to face a complex and adaptive threat landscape. Militant outfits affiliated with the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), the Baloch insurgency, and the Islamic State…
Dual-Use Missiles in South Asia and Implications for India-Pakistan Crisis Stability
In the contemporary nuclear age, dual-capable delivery systems that can carry either conventional or nuclear warheads are widely assumed to be highly destabilizing in crises. In South Asia, dual-use systems can generate significant anxiety—not just for India and Pakistan, but…
Testing Deterrence: South Asia’s Strategic Stability After May 2025
The Pakistan-India crisis of May 2025 has once again underscored the fragility of South Asia’s deterrence architecture. What began as a localized confrontation escalated rapidly, demonstrating how misperceptions, doctrinal ambiguities, and conventional imbalances can endanger regional peace. In the aftermath…
India-Pakistan Cyber Skirmishes and the Challenge of Attribution
The recent India-Pakistan crisis in May illustrated how cyber and artificial intelligence are being integrated into military combat in the subcontinent, a significant development for South Asia’s fragile strategic stability.
एससीओ में मोदी: भारत की विदेश नीति में चीन की महत्ता
भारतीय प्रधानमंत्री नरेन्द्र मोदी अगस्त के अंत में तियानजिन में शंघाई सहयोग संगठन (एससीओ) शिखर सम्मेलन में भाग लेने की तैयारी कर रहे हैं और चीनी राष्ट्रपति शी जिनपिंग से उनकी भेंट होने की संभावना है, जबकि, वैश्विक मंच पर…