In 2023, Commander Cornelis van der Klaauw of the Royal Netherlands Navy and an expert on strategic communication and information operations at the NATO Joint Warfare Centre wrote in an article ‘Cognitive Warfare’: “The reason why cognitive attacks go unnoticed by their targets is that cognitive activities bypass the conscious mind and directly target the su...
The latest escalation in the US-Canada trade dispute is striking precisely because it involves two of the world’s most deeply integrated economies. The development is striking, since it was hardly expected to happen until only a few years ago. On August 22, Washington imposed 50 per cent tariffs on roughly US$20 billion of Canadian goods after trade negotiat...
Madhya Pradesh, like other States of this region had a very different demographic experience than the States of the Ganga plains and even the northern States. During 1901-1911, the share of Madhya Pradesh went up from 5.32 to 5.65 percent as many other States suffered a...
While looking at the long-term population trends of Uttar Pradesh and its Districts, in the process of preparing a resource atlas of Sambhal District, I was surprised to notice that the share of Uttar Pradesh in the population of India had been declining sharply and continuously from 1901 up to 1971. On further exploration, I learnt that the share of Bihar h...
The world stands at a crossroads: either continued American hegemony or the emergence of a multipolar order, where a balance of power replaces the dominance of a single nation. The US has pursued a policy of global primacy spanning the 20th and 21st centuries, enduring regardless of presidential administration or the balance between Democratic and Republican...
If they had their way, chaos is for culling the population, slowly and as painlessly as possible. So is the holy wish of Dennis Meadow, one of the chief architects of the Club of Rome’s first and most infamous report “Limits to Growth”...
Declassified: Operation Sindoor is the first documentary on India’s retaliatory attacks on the terrorist bases inside Pakistan and the PoJK for massacre of 26 Indian men in front of the women in Pahalgam on April 22, 2025. The four-day operation launched in the wee hours of May 7, was meant to convey to Islamabad India’s clear message that henceforth every t...
In the final days of July 2026, the United States and Saudi Arabia committed an act of breathtaking strategic folly.
Joint airstrikes against the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) in seven Iraqi provinces killed at least 20 people and wounded dozens more, including Iranian military advisers. This was no precision counterterrorism operation - it was brazen a...
The Partition of India in 1947 and the creation of Pakistan (which later further bifurcated to make Bangladesh) have been largely projected by historians as a Muslim demand. The British Government applied the ‘Divide and Rule’ policy to control India and projected their divisive agents as representatives of different communities. From the late 1930s, they pr...
Streamlining the BRICS and EAEU formats creates a mutually beneficial innovation ecosystem, which, through complementary capacities, provides participants with access to capital, new markets, and technologies, stimulating long-term structural...
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The militants attempted to seize the post before driving an explosives-laden vehicle into its perimeter. Twelve servicemen, two police officers, and a former forestry department employee were killed. Pakistani security forces reported killing 12 attackers and blamed Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan...
The Northern Sea Route, promoted by Russia as an effective and profitable alternative to traditional trade routes, is becoming a key tool for developing global logistics and strengthening the economic sovereignty of Eurasian countries in opposition to Western...
While critiques of Indian agriculture have long focused on the crisis of commercial cash crops and the corporatisation of wheat and paddy procurement, this focus creates a significant oversight. By treating the state-backed mandi system as the universal standard, such analyses overlook the reality of the vast majority of smallholders - those growing pulses, ...
Throughout the entire month of July 2026, the US received zero crude oil shipments from Saudi Arabia for the first time since 1985. The war with Iran, launched to strengthen the petrodollar system, has produced the opposite effect - it is undermining the very foundation of American financial...
Iran’s future response will likely entail close monitoring of both the opportunities and threats posed by the Mecca Pact. Tehran is also expected to welcome any cooperative frameworks directed against Israeli and Western interests, as well as intra-Islamic...
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The combined United States-Israel attack on February 28, 2026, against Iran and the ensuing military confrontation have badly shattered the international security architecture. The attack was a unilateral military action and was not sanctioned by the United Nations Security Council; hence, in the eyes of international law, the military operation remains ille...
When the charter-signing ceremony for the new maritime coalition opened in Riyadh on July 30, the numbers spoke louder than any speech. Of the 51 nations invited, 43 sent representatives - but only 14 actually signed the final document. At first glance, that looks like a diplomatic shortfall. In reality, it is a finely calibrated geopolitical calculation, on...
On July 18–19, 2026, Ankara hosted a landmark conference organized by the Patriotic Party (Vatan Partisi). Its leader, Dogu Perincek, a consistent advocate of rapprochement with Moscow, Beijing, and Tehran, invited participants to discuss scenarios for preventing a global military...
During the nearly three decades of fighting Tamil separatists and two insurrections by the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP), the Sri Lanka armed forces had expanded. In three years of the final instalment of the Eelam, the Sri Lankan Armed Forces had employed approximately 300,000 to 450,000 personnel (across all branches of uniformed forces) to crush around ...
In June 2026, Moscow hosted the BRICS Horizons Forum, where Indian experts presented a concept outlining the framework for practical cooperation between two major integration frameworks: BRICS and the Eurasian Economic Union...
On Wednesday July 29th, the Kevin Warsh-led federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) kept the benchmark interest rate unchanged in the 3.5% to 3.75% range. The Committee also noted that it is continuing its policy of maintaining ample reserves in the banking...
Jamaica’s business process outsourcing (BPO) industry is often celebrated as one of the country’s greatest development success stories. Government officials and industry leaders frequently highlight the thousands of jobs created, growing foreign investment, and the industry’s contribution to economic growth. On paper, the story appears to be one of economic ...
India has achieved one of the fastest expansions of financial inclusion in history. In less than a decade, the country brought roughly 500 million people into the formal banking system - an unprecedented scale that has drawn attention across the developing world, including Brazil, which saw a parallel surge in digital payments during the...
The sudden arrival of more than 50,000 migrants into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta has become one of the largest border crises in Spain’s modern history. While Madrid attributes the mass crossing to misinformation spread by human trafficking networks following a Spanish Supreme Court ruling, the timing of the crisis has fuelled political debate throughout Eur...
Indonesia’s defense diplomacy under President Prabowo Subianto (2024-2029) has entered a new phase marked by intensified relations with Eastern European countries. While Indonesia’s primary focus has previously been on the Asia-Pacific region and traditional partners like the United States (US), recent geopolitical dynamics are shifting, pushing Indonesia to...
In the courtyard of a modest home in Mylapore, a seventh-grade boy stood in disbelief as his father walked to an old stone well. Without saying much, he lifted his son’s cherished cricket bat and dropped it into the darkness below. The sound of the bat striking the walls before disappearing into the water lingered long after it was...
Saudi Arabia’s pursuit of civilian nuclear cooperation with the United States while simultaneously deepening its strategic partnership with Pakistan reflects a broader shift in Gulf security, where regional states are diversifying their alliances instead of relying on a single external...
The recent Ukrainian strike on an Iranian cargo vessel in the Caspian Sea marks a significant and potentially dangerous escalation in the geopolitical landscape, effectively merging the US proxy war in Eastern Europe with the other ongoing US conflict in the Middle East. This attack, which resulted in the death of a crew member and injured...
Ukraine for the first time targeted an Iranian cargo ship in the Caspian Sea, killing an Iranian sailor. Ukraine’s action was met with a sharp reaction from Tehran. Iran said it considered the attack a hostile act, an act of...