Understanding the Indo-Pacific: A Case of Two Rivalries
The concept of the Indo-Pacific has emerged from an evolving mental map of the increasingly contiguous Indian and Pacific Oceans, as well as the growing […]
Category: Conventional Forces
Breaking the Impasse: Direct Talks between Army Chiefs
Introduction India and Pakistan exemplify the changed character of warfare in the 21st century. They once fought conventional wars. Now they shadowbox under a nuclear […]
The Pulwama Aftermath: Making Sense of India’s Response
Indo-Pak Crisis Post Pulwama: New Delhi’s Next Steps By: Tanvi Kulkarni There are many dimensions to the current crisis that seem to be unfolding between […]
اینڈامن اور نیکوبار جزائر: مشرق میں بھارت کا تزویراتی محور
عمومی طور پر اینڈامن اور نیکوبار جزائر (اے-این-آئی) مشرق میں بھارت کی بیرونی چوکی کے طو ر پر گردانے جاتے ہیں لیکن اب انہی جزائر […]
Pakistan’s Consolidating Conventional Deterrence: An Assessment
Before the overt nuclearization of South Asia in 1998, three major wars between India and Pakistan highlighted the latter’s struggle to bridge the conventional imbalance. […]
Strategic Drift: India’s Conventional Military Strategy Lacks Purpose
India’s military threat landscape today consists of territorial and resource-related disputes with Pakistan in its west and northwest and with China in the east and […]
Nuclear BrahMos: On the Anvil?
Since the early 2000s, the BrahMos missile system has made India’s military arsenal a formidable one. A product of a joint Indo-Russian initiative, the weapon […]
CAATSA-out of the Bag: India’s Balancing Act
The India-United States-Russia triangular dynamics have become increasingly complicated recently. As the United States-Russia relationship has nosedived, signified by the U.S. Congress passing the Countering […]
ایس-اے-وی ریویو:ناقص حکائتیں اور پاکستان کے نصر میزائل سے متعلق غلط تصورات
پاکستان کے کم مار کے حامل بیلسٹک میزائل (حتف-۹) نصر سے متعلق پہلے سے موجود لٹریچر نے اسکے کردار اور افادیت پر وضاحت کی بجائے […]
SAV Review: Flawed Narratives and Misperceptions About Pakistan’s Nasr Missile
The existing literature on Pakistan’s short-range, nuclear-capable ballistic missile (Hatf-IX) Nasr has so far generated more confusion than clarity about the implications of its role […]