China Test-Fires New Laser-Based C-UAS
China’s Ministry of National Defense (MND) released images on 28 November showing the test-firing in Beijing of what appears to be a new counter-unmanned aircraft system (C-UAS). The shelter... Read more
Missiles In Indian Military’s Arsenal & Their Features
Nestled in a hostile neighbourhood, India has to maintain a credible and potent defence force for which it has developed a series of tactical, medium and long-range missiles to deal with the... Read more
View: Pakistan Needs Comprehensive Policy To Avoid Catastrophe
The 2017 report of the Fragile States Index places Pakistan among the first 20 failed countries, which should be worrisome for Islamabad. Instead of continuing with the low intensity war aga... Read more
Social Media: The Fifth Column in the Fifth Domain
The key question as representatives from Facebook, Twitter and Google testify Tuesday and Wednesday before Congress is not how Russia used social media to interfere in last year’s presidenti... Read more
How Fiction Becomes Fact On Social Media
Hours after the Las Vegas massacre, Travis McKinney’s Facebook feed was hit with a scattershot of conspiracy theories. The police were lying. There were multiple shooters in the hotel, not j... Read more
The Troops May Have Stepped Back, But The China-India Dispute In The Himalayas Is Far From Over
This summer, Indian and Chinese troops were mired in a long-standing face off at Doklam – a once obscure patch of disputed territory between China and Bhutan. In late August, both New Delhi... Read more
Some two dozen shops sit quietly on both sides of a security barrier that marks the border between Kashmir and the Pakistani province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. There is nothing to suggest that... Read more
Trump To Stay In Iran Nuclear Deal, Asks Congress To Revise Enforcement
President Donald Trump will not withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal, but he will decertify that Iran is meeting the terms of a separate U.S. law directing the country to forgo its nuclear we... Read more
Russia Promises ‘Countermeasures’ If Finland Joins NATO
Russia has issued a fresh warning to Finland against joining NATO. Moscow has already issued a similar caution to Sweden, while Denmark has been told that it can expect “retaliatory counterm... Read more
How Deterrence Fundamentals Function In Cyberspace
Deterrence is based on the elements of denial (denying an adversary’s attempt to attack our interests) and punishment (inflicting unacceptable costs to the attacker in reply for having condu... Read more









