Moments before Glory 🔥🔥

My op-ed: While India and Pakistan were the primary belligerents, a third power, China, played a pivotal, if indirect, role. Chinese satellite reconnaissance aided Pakistani targeting, with Beijing even re-tasking satellites to enhance coverage over India. japantimes.co.jp/commentary/202…

#OperationSindoor Finally India has rightly called Pakistan’s war against India —as a war — and not proxy war, cross border terror nonsense. Narendra Modi has perfectly stated it — terrorism is Pakistan’s war strategy against India. It always was. We may not be able to

With speeds reaching Mach 3, the BrahMos cruise missile is notoriously hard to intercept — a fact Pakistan learned to its chagrin. By demonstrating both survivability and pinpoint accuracy, the BrahMos emerged as the standout performer of the conflict. japantimes.co.jp/commentary/202…

While there are ample satellite images to prove severe damage to 11 pakistani air bases and little to no evidence to prove several aircraft of the Indian Airforce downed. The author is clearly taking the narrative set by Pakistan.

For Bangladesh’s revolutionaries, the last election was not legitimate because the opposition had boycotted it. So to democratise Bangladesh, they have now banned the Awami League, one of the country’s largest political parties, altogether! Still, the Yunus-led unelected

Objective? Have carefully read Clary’s piece. Stimson Centre has long been negative on India. Was fiercely opposed to India’s nuclear programme. I dealt with the think tank when I was posted in Washington. The list of persons Clary has consulted is at the end of his piece. Most

Either CDS should not have uttered the phrase "tactical mistake" and if he had, he should have explained it in detail. There was simply no need to disclose the extremely sensitive fact that it took "two days" to identify and fix this so called "tactical mistake". Now, this

Bloomberg is very negative about India. Why give an interview to an anti- Indian platform? The purpose of this interview was to pin down our CDS on loss of our aircraft so that the focus and narrative remains on Pakistan’s “success” and not that of India in hitting at the

Since many asking me about CDS comments to Bloomberg and Reuters, choice of location, him accepting losses, something that IAF has already indicated, is his decision. But very intrigued by statement that “tactical mistakes” were there. I wonder what they were? India could not

Poor public diplomacy: The Modi government needlessly dispatched India’s Chief of Defense Staff to a forum in Singapore, where he handed a propaganda victory to Pakistan by acknowledging Indian warplane losses in a Reuters interview on the sidelines. Such admissions should have

For an air war to be effective, it must begin by neutralizing the enemy’s air defenses, thereby breaking its will to fight. Yet in Operation Sindoor, the political leadership — drawing a specious distinction between state and non-state actors — initially restricted the air

The quality of air strikes proved more decisive than the quantity. Pakistan launched swarms of drones and many missiles but caused minimal damage, while India relied on precision standoff weapons that successfully struck high-value targets in Pakistan. japantimes.co.jp/commentary/202…

Daring Ukrainian FPV Drone Attack on Strategic Assets Stuns Russia The Olenya airbase in the Murmansk region and the Belaya airbase in the Irkutsk region were targeted in a massive drone attack, with local residents posting footage of explosions and fires. Shockingly, the

"Cheap war means a sustainable war but with potentially dangerous downstream costs." theprint.in/opinion/did-in…

So Jamaat e Islami can contest Bangladesh elections, but the Awami League can’t!

With reports of Pakistan acquiring two squadrons of J-35s from China by year end, procuring 2 to 3 squadrons of Su-57E from Russia could be an interim option for us bridging the gap until AMCA is operational.

Nobody is fully prepared for this kind of attack. This is a modern day Trojan horse attack. It's not the technology. It is the cheapness of the tech. Safeguarding against this kind of threats costs 100-1000x more than the price of the attack.

We are seeing warfare changing right before our eyes. And it is not super-duper AI, or quantum or hyper stealth or any of those exotic stuff. It's just drones that hobbyist fly. It will take some thinking to counter these kind of attacks.

1. Developments since Pahalgam have moved very fast, but there’s one that defies explanation so far — the dramatic shift in US attitude towards Pakistan. There’s another interesting development: Pakistan has plunged headlong into cryptocurrency. #CutTheClutter connects the dots