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Operation Sindoor’s success cannot mask Pahalgam’s security failures
Illustration for representation. (© India Sentinels 2025–26)After days of parliamentary disruption, the nation finally witnessed a 16-hour marathon debate on Operation Sindoor. The discussion, marked by rare bipartisan unity, saw both oppo...
End Colonial Charade: Implement Supreme Court judgment on CAPF officers now
Illustration for representation. (© India Sentinels 2025–2026)Winston Churchill, ever the sceptic of Indian administrative capabilities, once declared: “To give India self-government now would mean the end of any prospect of India be...
Despite compulsive détente, China frontier paradox remains for India
The external affairs minister, S Jaishankar, has repeatedly emphasized that relations with China cannot normalize until peace and stability return to the borders. Yet despite countless rounds of talks following Chinese transgressions in eastern Ladak...
From Valour to Theatre: India’s military symbols under political siege
A political poster of Narendra Modi in an IAF flying overall.As a veteran military officer who has witnessed three consecutive generations of military tradition, I write with profound concern about two disturbing developments that threaten the instit...
Blood, Sweat, and Bureaucracy: Supreme Court’s CAPF ruling demands immediate implementation
Fresh BSF officers at their passing-out parade at the BSF Academy, Tekanpur (Gwalior), in December 2024. (Photo: BSF)In my previous analysis of India’s central armed police forces (CAPFs), particularly the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), B...
CAPF Leadership Crisis: Supreme Court speaks, government must act
The Supreme Court of India. (File photo)With over a million personnel in the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), Border Security Force (BSF), Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), and Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB),...
Border security or border combat? India’s western challenge
A BSF soldier stands guard at a border pillar with Pakistan in the Rann of Kutch during patrolling on a specialized all-terrain vehicle. (File photo)India’s western frontier with Pakistan – stretching across Jammu & Kashmir, Punjab, R...
Israel-Iran 12-Day War: Tel Aviv’s tactical win, Tehran’s strategic advantage
Ali Khamenei (L) and Benjamin Netanyahu.The dust has barely settled on the Middle East’s latest conflagration, yet the contours of a strategic paradox are already emerging. Israel’s audacious Operation Rising Lion, launched on June 13, 20...
Decoding Pakistan’s strategic gambit under Field Marshal Asim Munir and its impact on India’s western border
Asim Munir’s official portrait when he became the Pakistani army chief in 2022. (Photo: ISPR/Handout)The elevation of Pakistan’s chief of army staff, General Asim Munir, to the rank of field marshal by the Shehbaz Sharif government was ne...
Border Security Force is an armed force, not police, nation must know
Two BSF troopers manning a mortar position near the international border in Jammu. (File photo)A recent scroll through X (formerly Twitter) left me profoundly troubled. Post after post revealed a disturbing ignorance about one of India’s most c...Results
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