Sharing my latest article for Small Wars Journal (@smallwars) on India's ongoing integration of drones in its warfare capabilities.
https://t.co/iQbLnBCZK1
New Delhi’s accelerating militarization of drone technologies not only risks deepening existing asymmetries, but will also fuel a regional drone arms race. https://t.co/Tcbepj2Hmf
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“Under the current Trump administration, the Quad playbook appears to have been recalibrated. While the current administration is majorly focused on the West Asian and South American theaters, it also seems to be less inclined to sustaining an Asian security architecture through an indefinite forward military dominance.”
✍️ Authored by SVI Research Associate @maryam_raashed.
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“Modern warfare is increasingly being defined not by decisive victories, but by the ability to inflict costs while ensuring endurance and resilience. Hence, modernizing Pakistan’s drone and counter-drone capabilities is not merely a matter of technological advancement, but also a strategic necessity.”
✍️Penned down by SVI Research Associate Maryam Raashed
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Three decades of South Asia’s nuclear era offer a clear lesson: deterrence works when coupled with rationality, restraint, and responsible statecraft. The need to strengthen strategic stability in the region remains as important as ever.
https://t.co/CJTkV6QGCq
Contemporary Geopolitics for India
India’s strategic approach depends on a delicate balance: US political support, Russian energy and military supplies, and economic engagement with China.
- Under President Trump, India-U.S ties have considerably cooled down. Quad has weakened.
@RadioactiveFrnd development of Agni 6 signals a shift from regional deterrence to true intercontinental reach, raising concerns about strategic stability. This points to ambitions extending beyond immediate security needs posing a potential threat to the broader regional and global balance.
Islamabad has Fatima Jinnah Park along with dozens others. The same park where women were raped, I use women because it wasn’t one. Can we ensure women’s safety in that ONE park before Mohsin sahab goes to make a park on acres? we all know will be later turned in to something which looks nothing like a park. It’s just an excuse to start construction and acquire land.
Also if you want to build parks - there are some golf courses which no one from public can access how about re-purposing them for public?
Academics, if you write something that the public can't understand you've failed. The point is to write something that even other academics can't understand
Thanks to Shehbaz Sharif, loadshedding got me reading books, touching grass, going on night walks, and even praying Tahajjud when the lights went off at 2am
Flight tracking data and open source intelligence confirm a Pakistan Air Force IL-78MP tanker aircraft circling over the eastern Gulf near Bahrain, no call sign, actively supporting fighter jets. Separately, PAF fighter jets have been spotted over Bandar Abbas, Iran, providing escort to the Iranian delegation's aircraft. An AWACS platform has been deployed to establish what defence analysts are calling a "protective shield" across the flight path, designed to prevent any Israeli interdiction of the Iranian delegation en route to the talks.
This is a nuclear-armed state deploying its air force as a diplomatic guarantee in the middle of a live war.
@rafaelmgrossi@iaeaorg Grossi’s remarks on India’s reactors outside International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards raise questions about consistency in the non-proliferation regime. Coexisting safeguarded and un-safeguarded facilities create latent fissile flexibility, blurring civil–military lines
@rafaelmgrossi@iaeaorg At Tarapur, IAEA-safeguarded and un-safeguarded reactors operate within the same facility. This coexistence underscores the absence of a rigid civil-military separation, creating systemic ambiguity and potential flexibility in fissile material allocation.
A difficult piece to write, for one simple reason.
We are taught virtually nothing about Balochistan’s politics, history, and culture. This makes researching and verifying facts and narratives remarkably more difficult
https://t.co/Cm5sywIafi
Unsurprising that no economic/social sciences curriculum teaches how people & economies resist and build (Iran,Cuba, Vietnam,North Korea, Yemen, Traore's Burkina Faso). The Resistance Economy has been an actual policy in Iran but no Global South country is taught to emulate it