The Kyiv city centre. (Photo: Glib Albovsky/Unsplash) In nearly four decades of soldiering, this author has stood on some of India’s most unforgiving frontiers – commanded a battalion in the western sector during Operation Parakram a...
False accusations of blasphemy and “anti-national” activity are no longer spontaneous eruptions of street anger; they are being organised and deployed through social media to prepare the ground for targeted killings of Bangladesh's mi...
CDS General Anil Chauhan. (File photo)— By Dhanashree ValunjkarOn May 14 in the wood-panelled hall of the Manekshaw Centre at Delhi Cantonment, General Anil Chauhan, the second chief of defence staff, delivered what may well be remembered as on...
IAF chief ACM AP Singh in a Rafale simulator (File photo)New Delhi: The Indian Air Force is procuring a next-generation multi-domain combat simulation system called Agni – an acronym for air combat, ground planning and network integrated &ndash...
New Delhi: Military institutions across South Asia share a specific institutional assumption that has proven consistently wrong: that the combination of physical security perimeters, rank hierarchy, and institutional discipline is sufficient to ...
Pakistan’s first Hangor-class submarine approaching a naval pier at Kota Kinabalu in East Malaysia (Photo: Royal Malaysian Navy)Pakistan commissioned PNS Hangor on 30 April 2026 in Sanya, China, in a ceremony attended by President Asif Ali Zard...
New Delhi: Indian Army and Indian navy have formalized a framework for closer institutional cooperation, signing a memorandum of association on affiliation in New Delhi on May 14, in a move the two services said reflects the operational demands of mo...
Mumbai: Air Marshal Ashutosh Dixit, the chief of integrated defence staff, has said that India's ability to prevail in future conflicts will depend not only on the sophistication of its fighter aircraft or warships but on the strength of its...
Vice Admiral Sanjay Vatsayan. (Photo: Indian Navy) New Delhi: The government has appointed Vice Admiral Sanjay Vatsayan as the next flag officer commanding in chief (FOC-in-C) of the Western Naval Command, headquartered in Mumbai. VAdm Vatsayan,...