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Need For New Grand Strategy   Washington needs a new grand strategy toward China that centers on balancing the rise of Chinese power rather than continuing to assist its ascendancy by default. This continued flawed...

Background The Fundamental mistake in US ‘Defense Long Term Strategy’ has been Its historical myopic view in world affairs. It has missed the wood for the trees, time and again as it continues to help...

Burkina Faso, a landlocked West African country, has approved a bill authorising the dispatch of troops to neighbouring Niger Republic, which faces threats of military intervention to restore civilian rule following a coup. The draft law was approved in a meeting of Burkina Faso’s military-dominated government, according to a statement released on Thursday, Defence Post reports.

Ground Situation It will not be wrong to say that India-China are already locked in a war, since 2020 as China continues to shape the Indo-Pacific theatre. For the present, it has gravitated more towards...

Desperate to fill positions of tank commanders, snipers and engineers, retired soldiers have been asked to join the Russian Army in two Siberian cities as an estimated 15,000 of Putins troops have died.

Turkey has tested the world's first laser equipped drone capable of penetrating a carbon steel plate using a high-powered laser beam reported The Defence Post

The combatants in northern Ethiopia are digging in for a long fight, despite high fatalities and famine conditions for civilians. The war looks set to worsen. Outside powers should back the African Union’s new envoy in urging the parties to move instead toward a ceasefire.

The Drive explained that the weapons mounted beneath Kaman-22s wings are four Sadid guided bombs and two Balaban glide bombs. There also looks to be an electro-optical sensor turret on the UAV.  It has to be said that the Kaman-22 doesnt hugely resemble its Kaman-12 predecessor, and has a closer resemblance to the U.S. Predator MQ-1 and Reaper MQ-9; but at this stage, well have to hold tight until more information is officially shared.  Additionally, in 2016, The Islamic Revolution Guards Cor...

Somali Head of National Security Agency and 13 Troops Killed in IED Blast Share This: Photo of earlier roadside bombing by al-Shabaab in Somalia At least 13 Somali troops were killed in a roadside bombing when their vehicle hit an IED. They were part of a military intelligence unit’s convoy. The convoy had been traveling near the town of Dhusamareeb in Galmudug State. Among the killed troops was Abdirashid Abdinur, the commander of the National Security Agency (NISA) in Dhusamareb district, ...

Why should US ‘waive sanctions’ against India for buying S-400 ‘Triumf’ air defence system from Russia? (Part-2) January 14, 2021, 9:13 PM IST Dr. Maj Gen (Retd) Anil Kumar Lal is a Defence Analyst who has authored many path-breaking concepts on Nuclear and Space Warfare strategies. He feels that the future Military Forces would be dictated by a new concept of Strategic detterence which would be a combined effect of Nuclear and Space detterence. He is a third generatio...