Cyber-Risk and Security in Maritime Industry
Business is growing as fast as the internet and extensive complex networks allows industry to be exploited. Modern Shipping companies facing cyber risks are finding insurance cover inadequate to protect them from cyber-attacks. The...
Missile that could Upset Global Balance of Power
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The tests of the Zircon hypersonic missile, which Russian President Vladimir Putin “took out of the storeroom” a year and a half ago, are being successfully completed.
The Defense Ministry said that the rocket was launched at...
Beirut Explosion Risks Razing Lebanon’s Stability
A massive explosion in Beirut will intensify already potent popular anger at the Lebanese government and contribute to political infighting, even as it opens the door for much-needed humanitarian aid in the near term. The...
Artificial Intelligence vs Armored Vehicles
The United States launched a competition, the goal of which is to create a system using artificial intelligence to combat armored vehicles in Russia. The Agency for Advanced Research Projects of the US Department...
5 August 2019: A Defining Moment In India-China Relations
Andrew Korybko |
Most observers at the time regarded India's de-facto annexation of Jammu & Kashmir on 5 August 2019 as being a defining moment for either India's internal affairs or Indian-Pakistani relations, but in...
Terrorism and Kashmir: Countering India’s Propaganda War
Asif Haroon Raja l
Praveen Swami in his apparently innocent and well-meaning article titled ‘The Time might have come for India and Pakistan to talk’ has made designed distortions in the recent past history of...
Kamala Harris: Not so “Indian”-American
M K Bhadrakumar l
On several templates, the Democratic candidate in the November election in the US Joe Biden’s choice of Senator Kamala Harris as his running mate becomes an extraordinary development. Biden, the consummate politician, has...
The War of Maps in South Asia
M K Bhadrakumar l
The unveiling of a ‘new political map’ of Pakistan in Islamabad on August 4 marks the aggravation of a bizarre period of South Asian politics that draws comparison with a controversial slice of...
Is it Time for Indo-Pakistan Peace Talks?
Asif Haroon Raja l
Praveen Swami in his apparently innocent and well-meaning article titled ‘The Time might have come for India and Pakistan to talk’ has made designed distortions in the recent past history of...
A Legal Voyage through Troubled Waters of South China Sea
“Whosoever commands the sea commands the trade; whosoever commands the trade of the world commands the riches of the world; and consequently, the world itself.”
The South China Sea has gained unprecedented popularity over the...
Changing Security Dynamics of Strait of Hormuz
TIC Focus l
According to a report by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), “the Strait of Hormuz is the world's most important oil chokepoint because its daily oil flow of about 17 million barrels per...
U.S-China Trade War and its Impact on Belt & Road Initiative
Fazal Gilani l
A conflict theory suggested by Karl Marx mainly focuses on competition between two powerful groups on economic and social views. These groups could use economic institutions as tools of struggle and maintain...
Russian Spetsnaz Alpha Close Quarter Combat Training
The prime unit in Russia is considered to be the FSB Alpha Group. The Alpha group shooting drills are insane and they aren’t even similar to their Western counterparts like Delta Force or Seal Team 6. The...
China’s ‘Silk Road of Health’
M K Bhadrakumar l
A virtual meeting of the foreign ministers of China, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Nepal on July 27 becomes the third vector of Beijing’s ‘Silk Road of Health’ diplomacy in Asia.
A Xinhua report on the...
2020: A Turbulent Year for Pakistan
Asif Haroon Raja l
The year 2020 upon which we had pinned high hopes for better days ahead is proving to be another difficult year. The whole world is in a flux and hardly any...
Armenia, Azerbaijan and Pakistan’s Relevance
Aneela Shahzad l
After a lull of three years, escalations heightened again between Armenia and Azerbaijan on July 12. This time specific military targets and high-profile military personnel were hit. With both sides equipped with...
The Changing Balance of Power in South Asia
Rana Danish Nisar l
The South Asian balance of power is in transition due to the changing contours of US policy in South Asia and the growing relationship between India and the US. The response...
Why Putin would want Trump to Win in 2020?
M K Bhadrakumar l
There was a time when President Trump’s personalised diplomacy seemed a hydra-headed phenomenon with tentacles reaching far and wide. He engaged such diverse politicians — from Shinzo Abe and Kim Jong-Un...
The Next Phase of Libyan Civil War
Andrew Korybko |
Many in the Mediterranean region are wondering whether Egypt will go through with its threatened military intervention in Libya if the UN-recognized and Turkish-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) attempts to capture...
2020 Armenia-Azerbaijan Border Skirmishes and Reactions
Nuray Rustamova, Yunis Sharifli, Ilkin Akhundlu and Melek Novruzova l
Tensions between Armenia and Azerbaijan reached a peak for the first time since the April 2016 fighting, with a ceasefire violation along the border between Azerbaijan's...
Why Chinese Air Force will win against Indian Air Force?
Air Force of the People’s Liberation Army
The Chinese Air Force occupies third place in the world in the number of military aircraft of all types , second only to the United States and Russia....
Xi Jinping’s Rule Over China: A Blatant Display of Controlocracy
Adv Abdul Rasool Syed l
Axiomatically, China, under Xi Jinping has, politically, socially and economically undergone a colossal metamorphosis. Xi in order to cement and perpetuate his rule over the most populous country of world,...
India and the Line of Control: Reducing Reputational Damage
Syed Ali Zia Jaffery l
In a recent talk, Pakistani nuclear scholar, Dr. Rabia Akhtar remarked that, going forward, India might try to exact “Surrogate Deterrence” in the region. The term postulated that given India’s sheer inability...
Shifting Strategic Balance and South Asian Security
Asif Haroon Raja l
India reluctantly accepted the Partition plan as a stopgap arrangement under the fond hope that it will not survive beyond six months. To make it happen, Bengal and Punjab were bifurcated,...
China’s Belt and Road is not Dead, it is Changing
M K Bhadrakumar l
With the rebound of the Chinese economy, Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is on the march again. An Associated Press report from Beijing last Thursday said China is the first major economy to...
Frenemies: Taliban, Central Asian Republics and Russia
M K Bhadrakumar l
Compared to the events two decades ago when the Afghan Taliban appeared in the Amu Darya region in northern Afghanistan and Central Asian states and Russia went into feverish tantrums, there...
Strategic Transformation and Global Ramifications of Sino-Iranian Alliance
The central strategic transformation achieved by the the Sino-Iranian is straightforward: the opening of a second potential front against the US military. Now both the Straits of Hormuz and the South China Sea are...
Azerbaijan Threatens to Strike Armenian Nuclear Power Plant
Azerbaijan may strike a high-precision missile blow at the Metsamor nuclear power plant in Armenia, the head of the press service of the Ministry of Defense Azerbaijan, Colonel Vagif Dargyakhli, stated.
Azerbaijan will strike the...
Rise of the East in a New Clash of Civilizations
Saad Rasool l
The rise of China, and the consequent loss of global American influence, has the potential to be a moment of tremendous significance in the global power structure. We seem to be living...
Hagia Sophia has Tragic History but not at the Hands of Turks
M K Bhadrakumar l
A defining moment came, rather unnoticed, when the foreign ministers of the European Union (EU) held a virtual meeting on July 13 where the group’s relations with Turkey was on the...
