Informal institutions are important platforms for renegotiating global governance, but there is disagreement on how they operate and challenge the United States...

ET has reliably gathered that both sides have agreed to an arrangement by which either side can terminate the agreement by giving each other an advance notice of six months.

Fueled by aggressive rhetoric from both capitals, Indian and Chinese ground forces engaged in a standoff between June and August 2017. The Doklam crisis, as it became known, stimulated introspection...

India just tested a "new generation” nuclear-capable ballistic missile. We take a deep dive into why the missile is so special, and what it means for India's nuclear forces.

New Delhi has failed to learn from its mistakes.

French Defence Minister Sebastian Lecornu is arriving in India later this month to cement defence cooperation by expanding the envelope to joint design, development and manufacturing, Emmanuel Bonne,...

General He Weidong, formerly head of ground forces in Western Theatre Command, receives double promotion to become new Vice Chairman of Central Military Commission headed by Xi Jinping

Fueled by aggressive rhetoric from both capitals, Indian and Chinese ground forces engaged in a standoff between June and August 2017. The Doklam crisis, as it became known, stimulated introspection...

The engineer with Defence Research & Development Laboratory (DRDL), who was honeytrapped by a Pakistani spy with the lure of love and marriage, had le

Questions of employability aside, the eye-watering cost of a new aircraft carrier has become increasingly difficult to justify given the existing materiel shortfall within the Navy and Air Force in...

New Delhi won’t side with Washington against Beijing.

In 1994, Ukraine signed an agreement with the U.S., the UK and Russia under which it gave up its nuclear arsenal in return for certain assurances. NPR's Arun Rath speaks with Steven Pifer, former...

The US Department of Energy said it’s willing to prove its engineers aren’t breaking a three-decade moratorium against testing nuclear weapons, in a bid to encourage China and Russia to be more...

India has significant influence over Chinese strategy, which New Delhi should better leverage against Beijing.

India’s military is unique in facing a multiple-front  threat  without any long-term security strategy   By Ajai Shukla Business Standard, 6...

The Chinese military has been behaving aggressively over issues in the Yangtse in the vicinity of the Holydip and Parikrama area on the LAC where the Chinese side has been opposing Indian positions.

"...Previous governments let the “files gather dust and when we came to power in 2014 we allocated funds for this task and today we are witnessing the reality,” Modi said. “I think probably God has...

China is nibbling away at Indian territory and digging in

Written by Frank O’Donnell The growing pressure upon the Modi government to be seen to be robustly responding to China’s Ladakh incursions threatens to accelerate increasingly aggressive developments...

The Indian Express has learnt from two sources, one Indian and another Sri Lankan, that earlier this month, India passed on specific intelligence to Sri Lankan authorities that a terrorist attack was...

The BrahMos test is planned in next few days from a Sukhoi aircraft prepared by the HAL for flying with and launching the highly capable missile, IAF sources said.

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The Fletcher School’s Rising Power Alliances project is a multi-year project that analyzes the changing nature of alliances and coalitions in global governance. It examines when and how rising powers...

20 nations to participate in conference just ahead of MEA’s Raisina Dialogue

NEW DELHI: India is in an advanced stage of negotiations with the US to procure 30 MQ-9B Predator armed drones at a cost of over USD 3 billion to crank up its o

Early this year, when satellite images showed two Chinese J-20 stealth fighters

Japan is looking to buy hundreds of U.S.-built Tomahawk cruise missiles as part of an unprecedented defense buildup.

India is pursuing nuclear-armed submarines and ICBMs. It could save money, bolster its global image, and still credibly deter its rivals by doubling down on its existing missile forces instead.

Fueled by aggressive rhetoric from both capitals, Indian and Chinese ground forces engaged in a standoff between June and August 2017. The Doklam crisis, as it became known, stimulated introspection...

Fueled by aggressive rhetoric from both capitals, Indian and Chinese ground forces engaged in a standoff between June and August 2017. The Doklam crisis, as it became known, stimulated introspection...

Army has identified formations to be converted, Gen. Pande said.

Military sources have revealed that China has been blocking Indian army patrols from going up to patrolling points 10 to 13 in the Daulat Beg Oldi sector near the LAC.

The S-400 missile defence system is equipped with four different missiles which can engage enemy aircraft, ballistic missiles, and AWACS planes at 400 km, 250 km, the medium-range 120 km and the...

Terming it as a “profound level of incompetence”, it called upon New Delhi to explain “if the missile was indeed handled by its armed forces or some rogue elements.”

India is developing new nuclear force options in response to what it perceives as a deteriorating strategic environment. New Delhi has historically adhered to the nuclear strategic concept of “cred...

What are Chinese views of international security alliances? Some scholars argue that the idea of alliance formation has become obsolete in contemporary international relations (IR), while others pr...

In recent past, along with raising the Mountain Strike Corps to tackle the rising Chinese military presence along the borders, the Army has deployed additional two brigades (approximately 8,000...

The announcement of India firing an submarine launched missile from INS Arihant and the surfacing of the most powerful USS West Virginia in Arabian Sea are part of strategic messaging to wolf...

January 22, 1939 Assistant Professor Henry “Indiana” Jones Jr. Department of Anthropology Chapman Hall 227B Marshall College Dr. Jones: As chairman...

India's nuclear program is often misunderstood as an inward-looking endeavor of secretive technocrats. In Ploughshares and Swords, Jayita Sarkar challenges this received wisdom, narrating a global...