China Strategy
The Northern Front: Mapping India’s Critical Gaps in Border Infrastructure
India’s northern frontier — spanning Ladakh, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh and Sikkim — is no longer a peripheral geography. It is...
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The Himalayan Frontier: India’s Northern Borders in the Age of Persistent Deployment
In 2026, the Himalayas are no longer a seasonal theater of operations. They are a zone of permanent activation. The...
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PLA’s Cyber Warfare Units and the Question of Indian Critical Infrastructure Resilience
Cyber operations rarely unfold with the visibility of missile tests or naval deployments. There are no parades, no launch footage,...
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INS Vikrant vs. China’s Liaoning: Two Carriers, Two Strategic Logics
A surface-level comparison between India’s INS Vikrant and China’s Liaoning often gravitates toward displacement, aircraft numbers, or deck geometry. That...
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Indian Ocean 2030: Projecting China’s Naval Presence and India’s Response Options
THE CONTEXT The Indian Ocean Region (IOR) has emerged as the central arena of 21st-century geopolitical competition. For India, this...
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China’s Hypersonic Missile Arsenal and the Question of Indian Air Defense Resilience
Conversations around hypersonic weapons tend to begin with speed and quickly drift toward alarm. “Mach 5 and above” has become...
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Sea Control vs Sea Expansion: Vikrant, Liaoning, and the Indo-Pacific Contest
Most comparisons between INS Vikrant and Liaoning stop at displacement, aircraft count, or deck length. That makes for neat graphics—but...
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Strategic and Blue-Water Fleet Expansion: India’s Maritime Calculus in a Contested Indian Ocean India’s maritime planning is no longer framed...
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