CRPF commandos in an anti-Naxalite operations camp in Chhattisgarh. (Photo for representation)A slow-burning crisis is consuming India’s central armed police forces (CAPFs) from within. Not a crisis of courage – the jawans and officers of...
Various types of Iranian drones in an underground facility. (Photo courtesy: IRNA)New Delhi: The wars of the future will not be won by the nation with the most fighter jets or the largest fleet of surface warships. They will be won by those who can s...
Two commandos of the CRPF’s elite CoBRA special operations unit during jungle-warfare training. (Photo for representation.)“The day the soldier has to demand his dues will be a sad day for Magadha, for then, on that day, you will have los...
The BrahMos supersonic cruise missile has been one of India’s most lethal arms exports. (File photo)New Delhi: The volume of major arms transferred between states reached its highest level in more than a decade in 2021–25, rising 9.2 per ...
This satellite image shared by Tehran Times on X shows a destroyed US THAAD AN/TPY-2 radar site in Jordan’s Muwaffaq Salti airbase.In his earlier piece here, this author argued that the war against Iran – Netanyahu’s war, fought wit...
This Malta-flagged chemical/oil-products tanker named “Prima” is seen burning after being hit by Iran’s IRGC in the Strait of Hormuz, on March 7, 2026. (Photo via X)New Delhi: Israeli airstrikes have struck Tehran’s main domes...
Narendra Modi (L) and Ali Khameini during their meeting on the former’s visit to Tehran, on March 23, 2016. (Photo: Iranian Supreme Leader’s Press Office)When Colonel Douglas Macgregor (retired), the blunt-speaking American military analy...
IRIS Dena during her commissioning ceremony, in 2021. (Photo: Creative Commons/Wikipedia)New Delhi: A torpedo fired by a United States Navy fast-attack submarine has sent the Iranian frigate IRIS Dena to the bottom of the Indian Ocean south of Sri La...
Ali Hosseini Khamenei (April 19, 1939 – February 28, 2026)New Delhi: A coordinated United States and Israeli air campaign killed Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Hosseini Khamenei, along with several of the country’s most senior mili...