China’s Dual Aircraft Carrier Deployment: From Symbolism to Operational Strategy in the Western Pacific
In May and June of 2025, the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) conducted its first-ever dual aircraft carrier deployment into the Western Pacific. For the first time, both the Liaoning (CV-16) and the Shandong (CV-17) operated together beyond the First Island Chain, conducting coordinated training for their personnel on long-range operations across the Philippine Sea […]
Decoding the Submarine Race and ASW capabilities in the Indo-Pacific
Competence over Submarines The undersea domain has emerged as an important area not only in terms of laying subsea-cables (which is a part of the state’s critical infrastructure) but also building naval capabilities- submarines and anti-submarine warfare. As states have moved away from its narrow focus on building offensive land-based capabilities to upgradation of naval […]
South East Asia and the Art of Hedging
Critical Position of Southeast Asia Southeast Asia is critically positioned at the juncture of the ongoing great-power competition. This region has already faced the heat of the Cold war bloc politics and so the drawbacks of balancing and bandwagoning. The change in the world order from bipolar to unipolar and currently in a multipolar world […]
Geopolitics of Corridor and Crossroads in the South Caucasus
The stretch of south Caucasus has historically been revered with the status of strategic significance in the international geopolitical order due to its resource rich landscape and geographic location. This Eurasian region also distinguished as the trans Caucasus (Za Kavkazie), lies between the Caspian and the Black Sea that despite having a contagious geography lacks […]
China’s Major Rare Earth Source is Not China, its Myanmar
The US and China rivalry, if anything else, is certainly over the extraction, production and distribution of critical minerals. These minerals, as rare as they are to be found, are equally difficult to mine and process. The new age technology is heavily dependent on them. From telecommunications devices & equipment to automobiles, it is almost […]
Is India Ready for a Renewed Civil Nuclear Liability Law?
What is Civil Nuclear Liability? Civil Nuclear Liability basically outlines the legal responsibilities and just compensation of victims in an event of a nuclear disaster. What it ensures is that the victims swiftly and fairly get their due compensation and the party responsible is held legally accountable for whatever damage that has been caused. The […]
Syria’s Inroads into the International Order
Syria has embarked upon a novel expedition in the post Assad era where it strives to ensure its resurgence into the liberal international world order and strategically sail away from the prolonged isolation. Damascus seeks to spur a strategic dawn in order to transform the extant national narrative and calibrate a cautious diplomatic tactic to […]
Frozen Talks, Rising Stakes: The Ceasefire Impasse in Gaza
The extended stalemate in ceasefire talks between Hamas and Israel has ever more intensively escalated both humanitarian misery in Gaza as well as Middle Eastern geopolitical instability at large. Despite many diplomatic efforts on the part of international mediators, no accord has presented sustainable or mutually acceptable conditions. Therefore, the peace process remains frozen compounded […]
All You Need to Know About the 12-Day War
On the dawn of 13 June 2025, West Asia crossed a line it had tiptoed around for decades. Sirens wailed across Tel Aviv and Jerusalem as Israel announced the launch of Operation Rising Lion, a preemptive strike targeting Iran’s nuclear and ballistic infrastructure. What followed was twelve days of extraordinary attacks between two states that […]