Impact of the Indian missile defence shield on deterrence stability in South Asia on July 17, 2020In recent years, India has carried out an offensive military modernisation program aimed to enhance its offensive military capabilities. Along with enhancing various conventional and unconventional capabilities, this has been complemented by India’s notion of an offensive and multilayered missile defence shield. India intends to materialise this with a provision of both indigenous missile systems […]
The Global Hypersonic Weapons Race and South Asia on June 27, 2020Over the last few years, some of the prominent nuclear powers in the world have been involved in a race to develop hypersonic weapons. Countries like the US, Russia, and China have up till now developed hypersonic weapons systems comprised mainly of hypersonic cruise missiles (HCMs) and hypersonic glide vehicles (HGVs). In South Asia, India […]
Pakistan’s befitting response to India’s offensive naval buildup on May 10, 2020Over the last few years, India has embarked on an extensive and all-encompassing naval modernization program. This has been carried out primarily because of India’s aspiration for becoming a ‘blue water’ navy aimed at dominating the Indian Ocean and beyond. In this regard, India has expanded both its indigenously developed weaponry and most recently signed […]
Dynamics of escalation in South Asia and Pakistan’s nuclear threshold on March 29, 2020The South Asian region has always been regarded vulnerable to military escalation based on its ever-changing complex security dynamics and volatile relations between India and Pakistan. Since the year 2019, the prevalent security environment of theSouth Asian region has once again become a dominant regional and global concern. The world witnessed India’s continued brutalities in […]
RA’AD-II: enhancing Pakistan’s deterrence posture on March 15, 2020Over the past few years, the South Asian region has witnessed profound developments and enhancements of cruise missiles. This is primarily because of India’s aspirations for supersonic and hypersonic weapons. Evidence comes from how India has been carrying out an extensive cruise missile development program along with its prospective enhanced air defence shield. It has […]
Assessing India’s enhanced air defence shield with reference to Pakistan’s MIRV capabilities on February 20, 2020Since the last few years, India has been continuously carrying out an extensive military modernisation programme aimed at enhancing its counterforce capabilities vis-à-vis Pakistan. Under this notion, one of India’s most important components is the enhancement of its air defence capabilities aimed at providing an extensive multi-layered air defence shield. This has been done partly […]
Justifying a Pakistani response to India’s hybrid warfare campaign on January 17, 2020Hybrid warfare has irreversibly changed the dynamics of war in the contemporary era. In a way, it can be perceived as forming a ‘new normal’ that has also transformed the nature of warfare in South Asia, one of the most volatile regions of the world. There is no doubt in claiming that Pakistan has been […]
India Possibly Trying to Appease China on Kashmir on October 26, 2019The recent meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, referred to as the 2nd India-China Informal Summit, was held in Chennai on October 11, 2019, and October 12, 2019. This summit has considerable significance in the view of the evolving landscape of the South Asian region, especially since India’s unilateral […]
Iran’s challenge to the US supremacy in the Middle East on September 28, 2019As a global superpower, the US has been maintaining and projecting its military and political supremacy for decades. The US has ensured its military presence all over the world through its technological prowess and an unrivalled number of military bases and naval fleets across the world. Inspired by its military might, the US has deliberately […]
India’s NFU Card on August 26, 2019The Nuclearisation of South Asia in 1998 marked considerable changes in the regional security dynamics. This also had a considerable impact on regional and extra-regional politics, the security environment of South Asia and the global nuclear order. Since then, India has gone through gradual shifts in its nuclear doctrinal posture. Set out in the 1999 […]