WASHINGTON: Disclosing that Beijing tried to dissuade Washington from forming the Quad with India, Japan, and Australia, US President Joe Biden has outlined a two-front response to counter China and Russia, shoring...
On March 8, 1983, American president Ronald Reagan named the Soviet Union the Evil Empire. He said that the Soviets “must be made to understand we will never compromise our principles and...
"We are ending our military mission in Afghanistan, but will continue to provide support to the Afghans and we will do that in different ways. We will maintain our civilian presence in...
New Delhi: Two different but important developments have taken place recently. The government has questioned Twitter for its unilateral views on content. On another front, WhatsApp (owned by Facebook) has challenged India’s regulatory...
It’s now a “Third World War”. In the nineteenth century, Prussia’s Maj. Gen. Carl von Clausewitz had said: “War is a mere continuation of policy by other means”. That is what the...
Doubts continue about the F-35 stealth fighter jet program. The questions go to more than the usual array of new system challenges of maintenance, sustainment, cost growth and program delays. In those areas the...
Global military expenditure rose by 2.6% to $1.98 trillion last year even as some defence funds were reallocated to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute said in a...
Apr. 21, 2021 was National Look Alike Day. As the US Naval Institute highlighted on its Facebook Page, the Chinese military is full of weapons that look a lot like systems developed by...
