Strategic Analysis
Pakistan Looks West: Reducing Dependence on China Through a New Middle Eastern Security Architecture
By Natalie Treloar In assessing Pakistan Middle East Security, Pakistan’s relationship with China has for decades been described as an “all-weather friendship.” Beijing has…
| Opinion
Project-77, AUKUS and the Quad: Complementary Pillars of Indo-Pacific Undersea Deterrence
Balaji Chandramohan and Natalie Treloar The strategic balance of the Indo-Pacific is increasingly being shaped beneath its oceans. Submarines, autonomous underwater vehicles, seabed sensors and…
Bays, Not Peninsulas: The Geography Reshaping India’s Indo-Pacific Strategy
Importance of Bays and Peninsular in the Indo-Pacific Strategy| The Eastern Strategist As it is understood that the Indo-Pacific chessboard is larger and more complex…
Space Situational Awareness: Why COPUOS Needs an AI Layer
Artificial Intelligence and Outer Space Governance at the United Nations | The Eastern Strategist Opinion · Space Governance & Emerging Technology When the SpainSat NG…
India’s Involvement in Exercise Pitch Black 2026: Expanding Air Power Cooperation in the Indo-Pacific
EXPERT COMMENTARY Key Takeaways India’s participation in Exercise Pitch Black 2026 marks another significant step in the growing defence partnership between India and Australia and highlights the…
| Indo Pacific
Three Nations Signed a Defence Pact in Mecca. Only One Brought Nuclear Weapons to the Table.
Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey signed the Mecca Joint Defence Agreement on 7 August 2026. Behind the NATO-style rhetoric lies an old, unresolved question —…
| Maritime Geopolitics
Bab el-Mandeb Strait vs Strait of Hormuz: The Dual-Chokepoint Crisis Shaking Global Trade
Situated between Yemen on the Arabian Peninsula and Djibouti and Eritrea in the Horn of Africa, the Bab el-Mandeb Strait is one of the world’s…
Middle East Watch
Saudi Arabia Spent 45 Years Building an Escape Route From Hormuz. Yemen Just Shut That Too.
In 1981, as tankers burned in the Gulf during the Iran-Iraq War,…
