The Indian armed forces played a decisive role in winning the two World Wars. But national amnesia about India’s role in the two wars tended to diminish the subcontinent’s massive contributions to the shaping of the 20th century international order.
India’s next-generation carrier, if properly designed, will bolster India’s capability to control the Indian Ocean in the face of China’s growing naval power
The implications of the Pakistani refusal to help Saudi Arabia in Yemen should not be underestimated.
Although Kathmandu is currently being flooded with media and relief teams from around the world, the cameras will soon leave Nepal. But India must stick around for the long haul.
The challenge facing U.S.-India cooperation in Asia turns more on Indian economic choices than on geostrategic developments in Asia.
Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani’s visit to New Delhi offers an opportunity for Prime Minister Narendra Modi to recalibrate India’s Afghan policy toward greater realism and more modest goals.
Joint development of India’s next-generation aircraft carrier could be the next big idea in Indian-U.S. relations.
The United States and India have agreed to form a working group to explore the joint development of India’s next-generation aircraft carrier. Such collaboration would increase the Indian Navy’s combat power and would resonate throughout the Asian continent to India’s strategic advantage.
If Chinese President Xi Jinping’s two-day visit to Pakistan was about celebrating Beijing’s friendship, his presence at Bandung, Indonesia is likely to see an assertion of the Chinese claim to leadership in Asia.
Chinese President Xi’s travel to Islamabad, coming three weeks before Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to China, raises interesting questions about New Delhi’s changing approach towards Beijing.