Asia Defense

The Indian Navy has a bevvy of planned engagements this spring,. including with the UAE and France.

The Pentagon’s new Pacific Deterrence Initiative demonstrates that we’re still a long way away from the “flattened” world that Thomas Friedman and others imagined.

Both New Delhi and Washington will have to think creatively and realistically to maintain the momentum in the relationship.

Lloyd Austin’s message foregrounds one of the key priorities of the Biden administration for the military.

With no guarantee that the security environment in the Indo-Pacific will settle down any time soon, the expectation is that military spending will continue to increase.

India’s participation in the Desert Flag VI provides an additional data point illustrating the country’s deepening defense ties with Middle Eastern powers.

Though the United States has enthusiastically jumped on the hypersonics bandwagon, key questions about the capability remain.

Recorded Future, a private intelligence firm, claims that a Chinese state-backed entity systematically targeted multiple load dispatch points to strategic ends.

As great power competition rises to the fore – and counterterrorism operations recede into the background – U.S. special forces will have to adapt.

But the U.S. would find it difficult to disentangle from legacy commitments in Middle East.

A PLA Daily article noted that two officers and three soldiers have received military honors for their performance during the June 15 clash – four of them posthumously.

While energy security continues to dominate the agenda, security and defense cooperation are becoming more important in the India-Saudi relationship.