For as long as I can remember following Pakistan’s place in the world, the country has been on the defensive. Not just militarily — diplomatically, rhetorically, existentially. India’s foreign policy …
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From Fast Breeder Reactors to Intercontinental Missiles: Has the West Underestimated India’s Strategic Ambitions?
by Sana Ahmedby Sana AhmedIn international politics, it’s all about “capability, not the intent.” The more capable a state is, the more belligerent it becomes. Interestingly, this capability (Indian acquisition of an ICBM) is …
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Global Nuclear Order and Geopoliticslatest
The NPT Review Conference Must Do More Than Bear Witness
by Moneeb Mirby Moneeb MirThe 2026 Review Conference of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons opens in New York under conditions that would put it under a great test. While there is …
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Kashmir Conflict, State and Societylatest
Operation Sindoor and India’s Civilizational Turn: Strategic Messaging, Ideological Warfare, and Pakistan’s Strategic Gains
by Abdul Basitby Abdul BasitOperation Sindoor manifests more than a conventional military response by New Delhi following the Pahalgam incident on April 22, 2025. The operation reflects a growing metamorphosis in Indian strategic behavior …
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Deterrence through Denial: How Operation Marka-e-Haq Redefined South Asian Strategic Stability
One year has passed since Operation Marka-e-Haq, a watershed moment in South Asian military history that fundamentally altered the regional deterrence paradigm. Launched in May 2025 as a multi-domain response …
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Kashmir Conflict, State and Societylatest
The Pahalgam Incident: India’s Isolation Strategy and Pakistan’s Emergence as a Global Peacekeeper
The Pahalgam incident of April 2025 intensified tensions between two neighboring nuclear countries. It was a deliberate attempt, launched by India, and designed to affect Pakistan’s position internationally, weaken the …
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Emerging Technologies Strategies and Warfarelatest
Denying Coercion, Preserving Control: Bunyanum Marsoos and Pakistan-India Crisis Stability
One year on, the May 2025 India-Pakistan crisis deserves to be understood as more than a military episode. It was a compressed, multi-domain confrontation in which political accusation, military mobilisation, …
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Emerging Technologies Strategies and Warfarelatest
Agni-VI: Indian Strategic Thought and Future of International Peace and Stability
Indian DRDO Chairman recently claimed that India is all set to test its nuclear capable CBM Agni-VI with ranges estimated up to 12000 km with capability to carry multiple warheads. …
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Six hours. That is how long it took a pharmaceutical artificial intelligence, flipped from healer to hunter, to design forty thousand chemical weapons. Many were entirely novel. Some were deadlier …
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Arm Control and Disarmamentlatest
Rethinking Equity in the NPT: From Selectivity to Universalism for Strategic Nuclear Stability
The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) remains the linchpin of the global nuclear order, embodying a “grand bargain” that trades non-proliferation for disarmament and peaceful nuclear energy access. Yet, entering its …