South Asia
Security competition, border crises, insurgency, and strategic posture across South Asia.
51 Dispatches
What Would a China-India War Actually Look Like? A Comprehensive Analysis
Comprehensive analysis of a potential China-India conflict: military capabilities, air superiority, nuclear deterrents, and strategic outcomes.
Was Britain's Surrender of the Chagos Islands a Spectacular Own Goal?
Did Britain's handover of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius strengthen or undermine security? Analysis of Diego Garcia, geopolitics, and great power competit
Did China Help Pakistan Fight India in the 2025 Conflict?
India accuses China of feeding live intelligence to Pakistan in the 2025 clash. What the allegations mean for a hardening Beijing-New Delhi rivalry.
Sheikh Hasina: The Rise and Fall of Bangladesh's Iron Lady
How Sheikh Hasina rose from tragedy to lead Bangladesh for over twenty years, only to be toppled by mass protests in August 2024.
India vs Pakistan: Four Wars, a Nuclear Standoff, and a Cycle of Terror
How partition in 1947 set India and Pakistan on a path of four wars, cross-border terrorism, and a nuclear standoff that still defines South Asia.
Falling Russians, India's Balancing Act, and the Sahel's Shifting Alliances
Russia's wave of fatal high-rise falls, India's pivot between China and Washington, Mali courting the US, and Ghana's Bawku crisis under the JNIM shadow.
Special Operators--Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), Pakistan
In the labyrinth of global espionage, few agencies evoke as much intrigue and infamy as Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). From its inception in
Is Pakistan on the Verge of Collapse? Inside the Unstable Nuclear Power
Inside Pakistan's converging crises of economy, politics, and terrorism, and the fear that state collapse could let its nuclear arsenal slip away.
The Gurkhas: Nepal's Legendary Warrior Class
Discover the history of the Gurkhas, Nepal's elite warriors who served the British and Indian armies across two centuries of conflict worldwide.
Afghanistan: The Graveyard of Empires
How could a landlocked, impoverished nation continually defy the world's superpowers? For over two centuries, Afghanistan has confounded invaders, from
What if India and Pakistan Went to War Again?
An analysis of what could spark the next Indo-Pakistani war, how both militaries compare, and why a nuclear exchange could kill billions worldwide.
The US Withdrawal from Afghanistan: Strategic Failure, Logistical Nightmare
How America's exit from Afghanistan collapsed into the Kabul airlift—a strategic failure rescued, in part, by one of the largest emergency evacuations ever flown.