In this op-ed, RC Sharma, veteran BSF commandant, argues that decades of treating India’s eastern border as “safe and normal” have allowed illegal immigration to become a genuine national security concern – and lays out what a serious, humane fix would look like. Read More

In this joint op-ed, Dr Aparaajita Pandey and Bhanavi Mathur write that empires once conquered through fashion as much as force, and that today’s states are reviving textile heritage as a deliberate instrument of geopolitical strategy. Read More

In this op-ed, Maj Gen Sudhakar Jee (R) argues that the UN panel’s findings on the killing of Palestinian children by Israel in Gaza point to genocide, and calls on New Delhi to reclaim India’s traditional voice on Palestine before history records its silence. Read More

Climate change is no longer just an environmental concern, it has become a defining geopolitical and national security challenge. Read More

GE Aerospace’s simultaneous stumbles on the F404 and F414 programmes – slowed deliveries for the Tejas-Mk1A and a near-tripling of AMCA engine costs – have raised uncomfortable questions about whether India’s indigenous fighter programmes are being quietly undermined by their American powerplant dependency. Read More

As disinformation increasingly decides whose suffering is seen and whose is erased, Jeethu Elza Cherian Chacko makes the case for a new doctrine – Algorithmic R2P – drawing on Manipur and Myanmar as warnings of what happens when conflict narratives are left to the algorithm. Read More

In this op-ed, RC Sharma, former BSF commandant, writes about the 2010 Tadmetla ambush, in which 76 CRPF personnel were killed, demanding accountability for leadership failures and justice for the fallen as India celebrates the end of Naxalism. Read More

In this op-ed, Maj Gen Sudhakar Jee (R) says going by Ukraine’s recent strikes deep inside Russia targeting the country’s energy infrastructure and civilian sites, and Moscow’s warnings, a devastating retaliatory attack on Ukraine and/or its European backers is on the cards. Read More

In this article, Dhanashree Valunjkar, research assistant at CENJOWS writes on CDS General Anil Chauhan’s tenure and the legacy he leaves behind, when he retires on May 30. Read More

In this op-ed, senior journalist Jayanta Bhattacharya writes that India’s submarine programme, crippled by decades of paralysis, is leaving the Navy dangerously ill-equipped for the increasingly contested IOR – and the recovery window is narrowing fast. Read More