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Pakistan’s Navy was built for Karachi, not the Bab al-Mandeb
Ask what the Pakistan Navy is built for and the answer has not changed in decades: the Arabian Sea and whatever lies between Karachi and an Indian adversary. Every frigate, submarine and replenishment ship in its inventory has been bought, crewed and...
CAPFs need government empathy, not institutional apathy
India Sentinels illustration for representation. (© India Sentinels 2026–27)India asks its central armed police forces (CAPFs) to hold difficult borders, confront internal-security challenges, protect vital infrastructure, restore and rein...
Behind the Smoke: Why Pakistan’s latest military moves don’t appear normal
India Sentinels illustration for representation. (© India Sentinels)A series of significant administrative, military and diplomatic developments in Pakistan has created an unmistakable sense of unease. Considered together, the centralization of ...
Asean-India maritime exercise 2026: Why the drill matters in a tense Indo-Pacific
Indian and Singaporean warships. (File photo)— By Huma Siddique New Delhi: The second Asean-India Maritime Exercise is set to put an increasingly important question at the center of the Indo-Pacific: how can countries that depend on the se...
Mecca Pact: Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Türkiye ink mutual defence agreement. Let’s know its key points
Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Türkiye ink Mecca pact. (Photo: X)New Delhi: Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Türkiye have signed a trilateral mutual defence agreement in the holy city of Mecca, binding each of the three states to treat an armed ...
Who Should Lead CAPFs? A national security debate beyond cadre politics
Illustration for representation. (© India Sentinels 2026–27)Few would imagine an air force commanded by commercial airline pilots, a navy led by merchant seafarers, or an army headed by career police officers. Such arrangements would be di...
When elections turn into flashpoints: what Pakistan-occupied Kashmir reveals about the politics of coercion
— By Aayushi Pandey and Dr Aparaajita PandeyA democracy is not judged by how it behaves when all is calm. Its real character shows when citizens take to the streets to question those who govern them. Elections exist precisely to channel th...
General Vishwa Nath Sharma, Army chief who fought four major crises at once, dies at 96
General Vishwa Nath Sharma – June 4, 1930–July 31, 2026 (India Sentinels rendition of an old official photo.)New Delhi: General Vishwa Nath Sharma, the first president’s commissioned officer to rise to command of the Indian Army, ha...
Illegal Immigration: India’s unfenced fault line on the eastern border
Illustration for representation. (© India Sentinels 2026–27)I joined the Border Security Force in 1991 as a company commander on the India-Bangladesh border in Meghalaya’s West Garo Hills district, based at Baghmara – a subdivi...
Pickaxe Mountain: The underground Iranian facility now in Trump’s crosshairs
Vantor Technologies image overview of Pickaxe Mountain. (Photo: Institute for Science and International Security)The US president, Donald Trump, has trained his sights on a heavily fortified underground facility in Iran known as Pickaxe Mountain, ope...Results
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