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From Magadh to The Indo-Pacific: Bihar’s Forgotten Strategic Geography
June 1, 2026 India’s state of Bihar is rarely viewed through a strategic lens, yet its geography, history and civilizational legacy place it...Read more >

Crossing Criticality: India’s Long March to Nuclear Self-Reliance
June 1, 2026 On 6 April 2026, inside the Kalpakkam nuclear complex on India’s southeastern coast, a long-awaited threshold was finally crossed. India’s...Read more >

Control of Geography – Control of Outcomes
June 1, 2026 From the imperial cartography of the Sykes–Picot Agreement to today’s grey-zone contests in West Asia and the Indo-Pacific, geopolitics has evolved...Read more >

Contours VII : Time to Raise a UAV Corps.
June 1, 2026 Over the past two years, these pages have carried a few articles that, at first glance, may have appeared to...Read more >

AI and National Security: Power, Speed, and Responsibility.
June 1, 2026 Artificial Intelligence is transforming the world with unprecedented speed and reach. Tasks that once required days of analysis can now...Read more >

The Pursuit of Contrapunto
March 21, 2026 ‘The world is not of one mind….. it is without a single animating spirit’ - Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan, President of India In...Read more >

The owl and wisdom: From ancient symbolism to DSSC Wellington
March 21, 2026 Throughout human history, the owl has occupied a unique place in the imagination of societies across the world. Nocturnal, sharp-eyed,...Read more >

The Fourth Gulf War
March 21, 2026 The US–Israel offensive against Iran has triggered a rapidly escalating regional conflict with uncertain objectives and far-reaching consequences. As missile...Read more >

Restraint As Power
March 21, 2026 In this reflective and analytically grounded essay, Wamika Sachdev examines the ‘Hearts Doctrine’ introduced in Jammu and Kashmir in 2010-12...Read more >

Ramjet Artillery: Extending the Reach
March 21, 2026 India’s successful testing of ramjet-assisted artillery ammunition signals a major shift in the evolution of tube artillery. By combining sustained...Read more >





