Additional Scorpene Submarines: No New Boat Before 2032
Defence Analysis · Indian Navy · The Eastern Strategist Two Submarine Orders Await Cabinet Nod, and Neither Boat Sails Before 2032 Additional Scorpene submarines and…
Abhishek Kumar Parashar
Block, Blunt, Break: Inside NATO’s New Theory of Victory
NATO’s Top Commander Lays Out a Three-Stage Blueprint for European Defense
US-Russia Diesel Deal Worth ₹26,000 Crore, Up to ₹69,000 Crore
The US-Russia diesel deal is worth about ₹26,000 crore on announced volumes, up to ₹69,000 crore. See what Russia nets and what India risks.
104 Arctic Transits Squeezed Through the Bering Strait’s 82 km Gate. Russia Still Hasn’t Ratified the Border.
Bering Strait shipping hit a record 104 Arctic transits in 2026, yet the US-Russia border behind it is still unratified by Moscow. See the stakes.
Maersk Sent Its India–Europe Service Back Through Suez. The Houthis Still Fight for the Coast.
Maersk’s India–Europe ME2 service returned to Suez on 24 September. Its first eastbound crossing leaves Port Tangier on 31 October, with the Houthis contesting the…
Riyadh Airport Attack: Many Wounded in Blast Two Days After Strikes Killed Three
A blast at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh on 10 October 2026 wounded many people and halted air traffic, two days after strikes killed…
Washington Tariffed India Over Russian Oil. Now It Licenses Russian Diesel.
The Russian diesel licence India must now read is the latest US waiver on Russian oil. Why New Delhi’s energy compass should stay at home.
Pakistan New Provinces Plan: Who Would Rule 15 Units?
The Pakistan new provinces plan could put 12–15 units under nominees of the government, per The Economist. What it means for the NFC, Reko Diq…
Why US Sanctions on the ICC Matter for the World Order
US sanctions on the ICC now target the court itself, with core operations licensed to April 2027. Here is what it means for justice and…
Project Seabird Karwar Housing Opens, Dockyard Bids Loom
On 8 October 2026 the Indian Navy opened 120 new family dwelling units, in-living accommodation for 156 personnel of the Defence Security Corps (DSC —…
Natuna Islands Strategic Importance: From Coast Guard Standoff to Joint Drills
From Expelling China’s Coast Guard to Joint Drills: How Natuna Went Quiet
HAL Koraput AL-31FP Production Capacity Rises to 50 a Year
HAL’s Koraput division delivered its 2,000th aero-engine on 6 October 2026. It is three AL-31FP engines ahead of target, and the government is funding capacity…
Lombok Strait Strategic Importance: The Sensor, the Submarines and the Law
A Chinese undersea sensor found off Gili Trawangan has put the Lombok Strait in focus. Why its 250-metre depth matters to China, AUKUS and India,…
Chennai Vladivostok Corridor: India’s Coking Coal Gamble
India declared the Chennai Vladivostok corridor operational in November 2024. A year later Moscow was still “working on activating” it. Why coking coal and east-coast…
Three Signals, One Direction: How India’s Ceasefire Proposal Became the Broadest of Four
In the space of a month, three public statements moved India’s position in the Russia-Ukraine war. On 3 September, in Kyiv, External Affairs Minister S….
India’s Defence Propulsion Gap: HAL’s $716M Problem
India builds rockets and nuclear submarines. It still can’t build a jet engine.
US-Iran War 2026 Explained: What It Changed and Who Won
In late February 2026, the United States and Israel launched an air campaign on Iran that killed its Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, on the first…
Three US Carrier Strike Groups in the Middle East — and the Missile Gap Behind Them
Key Takeaways Three US carrier strike groups are set to overlap in the Middle East by late November 2026 — the USS Theodore Roosevelt joining…
Uttam AESA Radar Tejas Mk1A: HAL’s ₹2,205 Cr Astra Order
When Hindustan Aeronautics Limited signed off on the first 83 Tejas Mk1A fighters, it had little choice but to put an Israeli radar in the…
Hormuz Ship-to-Ship Transfers: The Gulf’s Oil Workaround
Key Takeaways More than 70 percent of the crude that crossed the Strait of Hormuz in August changed tankers offshore, in ship-to-ship transfers protected by…
Faster Fleets: The Structural Shift Driving India’s Record Naval Commissioning
Two ceremonies, eighteen months apart, look almost identical on paper. On 15 January 2025, Prime Minister Narendra Modi commissioned a destroyer, a frigate and a…
Kaliningrad Nuclear Warning: Russia Threatens NATO With Its “Entire Arsenal”
Russia just sent NATO its most explicit nuclear warning since the Cold War — in writing. The threat: use “the entire arsenal… including nuclear weapons”…
Tejas Mk1A Delivery: Why One Jet Could Re-Rate HAL By 43%
Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) is, by the account of nearly every institution now tracking it, one aircraft handover away from answering the question that has…
BLF’s KAAD Female Unit: Balochistan’s New Combat Force
Key Takeaways The Balochistan Liberation Front has fielded the KAAD female unit — its first all-women combat formation — and claims its fighters killed nine…
Iran War Stock Market Impact: Sensex’s Rs 9 Lakh Crore Week
Key Takeaways President Donald Trump rejected Iran’s proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz within seven days, then denied reports — carried by Axios and…
Trump Xi Arms Offer: Perdue’s Claim and the $14B Freeze
Trump Xi Arms Offer: Perdue’s Claim and the $14B Freeze News Analysis · Indo-Pacific · US-China-Taiwan TES Analysis · 28 September 2026 · Updated with…
Powerus’s Pakistan Bet: The Same Drone Firm Already Sells to India
On 30 June 2026, Paras Defence and Space Technologies told India’s stock exchanges that a little-known American drone company had handed it the exclusive right…
India Russia Iran Sanctions: Jaishankar’s 3-Meeting Week
One week. Three foreign ministers. Three sanctions regimes. And India sat down with all of them. That’s the short version of the India Russia Iran…
India’s Russian Oil Tariff: 30-Day Clock Squeezes Refiners
On 23 September, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and India’s External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar sat down in New York and talked, by both…
Russia Ukraine War Ground Situation 2026: What the Silence Hides
On 24 September 2026, the Russian Ministry of Defence announced an encirclement of the Ukrainian-held town of Dobropillya. The Institute for the Study of War,…