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India’s long-term growth is in securing its seas. When will the Navy budget reflect this?

As Sardar KM Panikkar explained, India’s land-based invaders ultimately became natives. Its colonisers came by the sea—and they were successful...

30.01.2025 20

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Lt Gen Rustom Nanavatty steered India through perilous 1990s—we need more war hero biographies

It takes a particular kind of soldier to meet all the requirements for commanding operational tasks that began on the Saltoro Range and culminated in...

16.01.2025 10

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Shivaji statue has no relevance in Ladakh. Gen Zorawar is a bigger hero there

The Chushul councillor has complained that the statue of Shivaji was erected without any local consultations, questioning its relevance to the...

02.01.2025 4

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The rise and fall of born-again messiahs Imran Khan & Arvind Kejriwal have much in common

Even as the systems that created them turned against Khan and Kejriwal, these born again messiahs suddenly espoused pop religion and victimhood...

28.11.2024 8

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India’s diplomatic shift with Taliban shows craftsmanship. It’s the age of pragmatism after all

It is always good to preempt an unpredictable Donald Trump presidency, but it makes better policy for India to have its own neighbourhood interests...

14.11.2024 3

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India-China LAC ‘solution plan’ will follow Beijing’s timetable. That’s a different calendar

Beijing will adopt any policy that it deems to be useful for its targeted status of the future. Shifting goalposts is simply part of the plot.

24.10.2024 1

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Why attack Hezbollah? Last leg of US election campaign is a good time to launch a new war

Israel exists in a perpetual state of conflict with its neighbours. American largesse and larger Western guilt enable Israel to commit acts of...

03.10.2024 3

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Jaswant Singh kept bullets from IC814 in his office. With a sign that read ‘Lest we forget’

Every day of the hijacking, my father was woken up at midnight by a call from wife of a crew member. He’d sit on the bed, listening to her crying...

19.09.2024 7

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India has world-class capabilities to manufacture rifles. SIG-716 is wasteful procurement

India has reached the dark side of the moon. Rifles are a far simpler technology to invest in.

05.09.2024 7

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India-Pakistan armies have common professional DNA. It’s time to start talking

Indians have long taken to grandstanding democratic credentials and chafing at the thought of engaging coup planners like the Pakistan Army.

15.08.2024 2

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India must pause Kargil celebrations. Understand Pakistan Army psychology first

A quarter of a century ago, the Pakistan Army was at one of its lowest points after getting defeated from a winning position. But it has now...

01.08.2024 4

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Army’s proposed 360-degree evaluation isn’t the best move. Take lessons from civil services

While implementing the proposed 360-degree appraisal method, the Army should keep in mind that its existing system isn’t bad, inefficient, corroded...

18.07.2024 2

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