Articles

Operation Sindoor First Anniversary: Has India Redefined the Cost of Provocation?

By Lt Gen A B Shivane, PVSM, AVSM, VSM (Retd)

Reassessing Comprehensive National Power In The Indian Context

By Air Marshal Anil Khosla (Retd) PVSM, AVSM, VM, ADC. 42nd Vice Chief of the Air Staff

In the lexicon of contemporary statecraft, few concepts have generated as much analytical attention and strategic utility as Comprehensive National Power (CNP). As the twenty-first century has complicated the relationship between coercion and cooperation, between hard and soft instruments of statecraft, CNP has become the preferred analytical lens of strategic planners. CNP offers a multidimensional framework for assessing a state’s capacity to pursue its interests, shape its environment, and sustain its influence over time.

A Truce That Is Not Peace

By Dr. G. Shreekumar Menon

The title "A Truce That Is NotPeace", is that of a novel by Miriam Toews. It best describes the present meaningless conflict raging between USA and Israel vs Iran.

Iran's Hormuz Gambit: How Far Can Power Be Pushed?

By Lt Gen AB Shivane, PVSM, AVSM, VSM (Retd)

Iran's latest negotiating stance comes across less as a conventional brief and more as a statement of intent. The demands being put forward are wide in scope.

Dimona and the Quiet Erosion of Nuclear Restraint

By Lt Gen AB Shivane, PVSM, AVSM, VSM (Retd)

For years, a silent understanding shaped how conflict unfolded in the Middle East. Israel's nuclear complex at Dimona sat outside the normal logic of targeting.