India is stuck in the proverbial ‘rock and a hard place’ syndrome in relation to the US embargo on energy trade with Iran. The choice is limited; continue pursuing the strategic relationship with the US as one of the more important swing states with mutuality of future interests or resist the US coercion and follow the principle of strategic autonomy by remaining engaged with Iran for the many strategic advantages that the option provides.

Resisting US pressure on Iran: India is stuck between rock and hard place

A lot has been spoken and written about highway control in J&K post both the first and second attempts at use of car bombs by Pakistan sponsored terror groups this year.

In J&K, government faces the challenge of safe movement of soldiers

Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced on March 27 that India had successfully shot down one of its own low-grade decommissioned satellites with the help of an indigenously made missile produced by Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO).

Having an eye in sky in form of satellites is a major advantage for militaries

No doubt a UN ban on Jaish-e-Muhammed (JeM) leader Masood Azhar and designating him an international terrorist would have been the culmination of an energetic diplomatic campaign that India undertook after the Pulwama outrage.

Masood Azhar and China's 'new great game'

There is an inevitability about the effect of a major trigger in the national security environment such as the Pulwama car bomb attack. It always commences an escalation spiral between India and Pakistan which could go all the way to an all-out war.

Pulwama aftermath: Pakistan has a propensity to play mind games

In 1987, while the Indian Army was advancing on Jaffna in northern Sri Lanka as part of Operation Pawan, the LTTE challenged the advance with a crude weapon it had mastered; the improvised explosive device or IED as it came to be called.

Pulwama terror attack: Return of IEDs after a decade

In the last few years the term ‘last helicopter’ has been synonymous with US withdrawal of its remaining rump military and civil elements from any expeditionary deployment abroad.

Last copter from Afghanistan: Taliban chooses to continue fighting while negotiating with the US

When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, most of the world imagined that the end of an era of confrontation was upon us. That sentiment probably was also present when the Second World War ended in 1945.

Five security threats in 2019

Chabahar is back in the news after a hiatus of about two years. The contexts of its importance are several but the first one in the current milieu is the fact that despite President Donald Trump’s avowed sanctions on everything related to Iran, India’s Chabahar-based relationship with Tehran has received a waiver.

Iran: A port of call for India

India remained largely secure in 2018, but security being work in progress, always needs a pragmatic relook and year-end is a good time to take stock. Its major strategic security concerns revolved around its relations with China, US, Russia and Pakistan with doses of attention towards the Indo-Pacific and the nations there.

Secure through 2018, India has work cut out for New Year

In the last three years with the humdrum of events in the Middle East, the European immigration crisis and a host of other competing geopolitical issues, somehow the crisis in Ukraine, which came into being in 2014, and its potential implications for European security bypassed most international concerns.

The forgotten Ukraine crisis

I was in Paris on November 11, 2018, and drove 200 km north to Lille to participate in the hundredth anniversary of Armistice Day with the people of the township of Levantie where my regiment fought during the Great War.

Fuelling the French rebellion

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