India formally announced the establishment of its Strategic Forces Command (SFC) on January 4, 2003, five years after testing a nuclear device at the Pokhran Test Range in 1998. The SFC is headed by a ...
Operation Shakti was remembered for the explosions, but it succeeded first as a logistics-and-deception operation run under tight civil-military control in the Rajasthan desert ...
The United Nations rarely moves fast on disarmament. This year, though, it did something unusual. On November 6, the General Assembly’s First Committee, where states debate over questions of ...
In contemporary South Asian crises, velocity matters more than military power. Velocity means how fast responsibility is assigned, actions are authorized, ...
The world watched anxiously as India and Pakistan exchanged ballistic missiles during what is now remembered as the 88-hour war of May 2025. Observers feared that an uncontrolled escalation could push ...
Operation Sindoor marked a significant shift in India’s security response doctrine, focusing on punitive strikes against terrorist infrastructure rather than restraint.