Can Hypersonic Missiles Be Intercepted? China vs India’s BMD
Defence Analysis · Missile Technology · Markets On 27 March 1999, a Yugoslav air defence battalion did something the United States Air Force had built…
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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 —…
Indian Navy 2026: Five Times Pakistan’s Tonnage, Third Carrier Still Pending
2026 is the Indian Navy’s biggest induction year on record. TES walks through what’s actually been delivered, what Pakistan and Germany are doing in response,…
Agni-V MIRV: The Physics Behind India’s 200-Kiloton Nuclear Bomb
Agni-V MIRV: The Physics Behind India’s 200-Kiloton Nuclear Bomb Strategic Defence · Nuclear Architecture · Indo-Pacific Power Dynamics The physics validated in a 1998 test…
Astra Microwave Just Hit ₹1,950. India’s Defence MSMEs Are Still Stuck at 0.4%
Defence Manufacturing · Markets On 31 July, Astra Microwave Products opened 7.5% above its previous close and kept climbing through the session. By the closing…
Not a Science Project: How India’s Space Station Became a ₹47,000 Crore Border-Security Bet
India’s space station is routinely covered as a science story. The budget says otherwise — a combined ₹47,000 crore commitment across two programmes reveals a…
India Drone Industry: The Real Race Is for the Technology Stack, Not the Aircraft
India Drone Industry: The Real Race for Tech Ownership Defence Manufacturing · Markets · The Eastern Strategist Operation Sindoor exposed the gaps. A $100 million…
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, Saudi Arabia’s oil planners made a quiet bet. They built a 1,200-kilometre pipeline…
Why Altitude, Not the Enemy, Has Been India’s Toughest Adversary Since Kargil
Kargil to Operation Sindoor: India’s Defence Leap Twenty-five years separate the Bofors gun from the BrahMos missile. Both fought the same mountain. TES Brief Kargil…
India Private Missile Manufacturing
India Private Missile Manufacturing: From Nuts and Bolts to Warheads: India Opens Missile Manufacturing to Private Firms | The Eastern Strategist Defence Manufacturing · India…
Two Chokepoints, One War: Why Trump Is Weighing a “Massive Attack” as Hormuz Diplomacy Collapses
Iran has rejected a US ceasefire proposal carried by Iraq’s prime minister, retaliated with drone strikes on American-linked sites in Bahrain and Jordan, and President…
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…
Pakistan J-35 Stealth Fighter: What Are India’s Real Options?
On 27 March 1999, a Yugoslav air-defence battery shot down an American F-117 Nighthawk over Serbia. The aircraft was, on paper, invisible. A radar operator…
The Great Rebalancing: Why the World’s Centre of Gravity Is Moving East
On 16 December 1971, India recorded one of the most decisive military victories of the Cold War. The surrender of Pakistani forces in Dhaka created…
The Ocean That Will Decide the Century
Why the waters between Africa and Australia matter more than most people realise For most of history, empires were built and broken on land. Armies…
Africa Is No Longer Waiting to Be Defined by Others
Demographics, minerals, digital infrastructure and a crowded field of external partners are turning the continent into an independent actor in a multipolar world For decades,…
Why Turkey Supports Pakistan: Strategy Over Religion, and What It Means for India
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Op Sindoor, Aatmanirbharta and the Making of a Defence Exporter: What Rajnath Singh’s 18 July Address Reveals About India’s Strategic Trajectory
The Eastern Strategist India defence export growth has become a central focus for the nation’s defence establishment, which has spent the past decade building a…
Beyond the Rocket: What Vikram-1’s Orbit Actually Buys India
The Eastern Strategist At 12:05 pm on 18 July 2026, a seven-storey rocket built by an eight-year-old Hyderabad company punched through the coast at Sriharikota…
Beyond the 1.78 Lakh Crore Milestone: Assessing the Structural Reality of India’s Defence Industrial Base
A month has passed since the Ministry of Defence released the FY 2026 production figures of Rs 1.78 lakh crore. While the headline numbers captured…
India’s ₹1.9 Lakh Crore Semiconductor Push: What Semicon 2.0 and the New Mobile Phone Scheme Mean for You
By The Eastern Strategist 15 July 2026 | New Delhi India just made its biggest bet yet on becoming a global technology power. On Wednesday,…
Ontario Wildfires Force Mass Evacuations as Smoke Chokes North American Cities
By The Eastern Strategist | 15 July 2026 As part of the escalating Canada wildfires 2026 season, a fast-moving wildfire emergency in northwestern Ontario has…
Sheikh Hasina’s Gamble: A Deposed Prime Minister, a Death Sentence, and a Diplomatic Headache for India
The Eastern Strategist | South Asia | 15 July 2026 Sheikh Hasina says she is going home. The 78-year-old former Prime Minister of Bangladesh, who…
The Hormuz Toll: How the Strait of Hormuz Affects Global Oil Trade
For decades, the Strait of Hormuz has quietly carried one of the world’s greatest strategic burdens. Around one-fifth of globally traded crude oil passes through…
The Real Story Behind the Viral Physicist Isn’t Her — It’s the Question She’s Trying to Answer
Millions are searching her name this week. But the real story behind Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski isn’t the “next Einstein” headline — it’s the century-old physics…
Hasina Signals December Return to Bangladesh, Setting Up Test of Dhaka’s Post-Uprising Order
News Analysis | South Asia 11 July 2026 New Delhi: Sheikh Hasina, the former Bangladesh prime minister who has lived in exile in India since…
Israel Eyes India for Iron Dome Missile Production: Here’s Why It Matters
Israel Eyes India for Iron Dome Missile Production Israeli defence major Rafael Advanced Defense Systems is reportedly exploring plans to manufacture Tamir interceptor missiles—the backbone…
Iran News: Trump Keeps Talks Alive as India Moves to Shield Economy From Strait of Hormuz Risks
Market is Watching Iran News as Fresh military exchanges, new U.S. sanctions and continued diplomatic contacts between Washington and Tehran have kept the Strait of…
From Europe to the Pacific: Modi’s Strategic Arc Is Reshaping India’s Maritime Century
Published: July 2026 Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s latest diplomatic tour has produced images that naturally dominate headlines. A ceremonial welcome in Jakarta, an address to…