Indian Strategic Studies

Kriti Upadhyaya Source Link It hasn't received much attention outside of the defense industry, but the executive order President Trump s...

Salman Masood Source Link When Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif met Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, o...

Damien Ma Source Link The energy shock brought on by the Iran war is still percolating, but those shockwaves will not hit countries with equ...

Commander Ander S. Heiles Source Link In January 1991, Chinese military officers watched CNN footage of the United States dismantling the Ir...

Neil Quilliam Source Link Israel and the United States may have launched the war on Iran. But it is the Gulf Arab states that have borne the...

Henry Tugendhat Source Link In late March, both Israel and Iran attacked gas fields in the Persian Gulf, the most dramatic escalation yet in...

Paul Adams Source Link US Vice-President JD Vance is to lead the US team during the talks, while reports suggest Iranian Foreign Minister Ab...

Kurniawan Arif Maspul Source Link What has unfolded is not simply another Middle Eastern conflict. It is a moment that forces a reckoning. W...

Eric Alter Source Link Pakistan, with China’s help, brokered it. Turkey and Egypt shuttled the proposals. Qatar had been working the phones ...

Carter Malkasian Source Link In nearly six weeks of war with Iran, the United States’ and Israel’s military performance has been unexpectedl...

Jeremy Bowen Source Link The best hope for the ceasefire talks in Pakistan is that both the United States and Iran have strong reasons to ca...

Daniel Chardell and Samuel Helfon Source Link No sooner had the United States and Israel launched their joint war on Iran than observers beg...

Henry Tugendhat Source Link In late March, both Israel and Iran attacked gas fields in the Persian Gulf, the most dramatic escalation yet in...

RN Prasher Source Link The Iran war may have paused, if not finally ended. Iran has lost its leaders, half of its missile and drone stocks, ...

David Remnick Source Link Not many years ago, a ruthless man with an uneasy mind took power in his country and created a cult of personality...

Amaney A. Jamal and Michael Robbins Source Link Practically every person in the Middle East has been affected by the chain of events put int...

Toghrul Iskandarov Source Link Quantum power parity is a strategic situation in which rival great powers, in this case the United States and...

Emzar Gelashvili Source Link On April 4, 1949, twelve nations gathered in Washington and signed the North Atlantic Treaty. The logic was ele...

Yasmine El-Sabawi Source Link At least a dozen US military sites across the Gulf region have been so badly damaged by Iran's retaliation...

Mahjoob Zweiri Source Link On the 40th day of the war that Washington called “Epic Fury” and Tehran named “True Promise 4”, United States Pr...

David Maxwell Source Link On 30 September 2025, along with the Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, President Trump addressed an unprecedented ass...

Sachi Kitajima Mulkey Source Link Most of the countries in the world have agreed to an international treaty, the United Nations Convention o...

Bill Rivera Source Link In February 2019, the author, with Arnel David, argued in these pages that the United States military’s understandi...

Toghrul Iskandarov Source Link Quantum power parity is a strategic situation in which rival great powers, in this case the United States and...

Jean-Michel Valantin Source Link On the very first day of the Iran War, February 28, 2026, more than 1,000 Iranian targets were struck by U...

Sergey E. Ivashchenko Source Link In 2025–2026 the world faced a series of decisions by China that at first glance looked like another step...

Y Nithiyanandam & Ayush Hegde Source Link 25 August 1959 | Longju, Subansiri Frontier Division, NEFA The first serious armed clash betwe...

Andrew Erickson Source Link Follow the latest developments in China’s growing nuclear-powered submarine force (pp. 20–22) and beyond with t...

Suffian Zafar and Najeeb Ullah Source Link As great powers like the United States pursue frameworks that impose growing security, political,...

Daniel Fu Source Link Experts in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) argue that the country’s energy system is resilient enough to withstan...

Michael David Peck Source Link U.S. Army M1A2 tank during exercise at National Training Center in 2019. Photo by Spc. Nathan Franco, DVIDS  ...

Daniel Byman Source Link For now, the United States, Israel, and Iran have agreed to a ceasefire and only a ceasefire. Numerous contentious ...

Natalia Katona Source Link March has turned into a month of hard power tests for Iran – and so far, it has been quietly exceeding expectatio...

Jeremy Bowen Source Link In a day, Donald Trump went from threatening that Iran's civilisation "will die tonight" to declaring...

Michael Kugelman Source Link Welcome to Foreign Policy’s South Asia Brief. The highlights this week: Pakistan plays a leading role in broker...