Despite widespread support to Peacekeeping as a tool for management of conflicts, there is a decline in personnel deployed, almost 50 percent in the last decade marks a new SIPRI Report. This does not augur well for conflict management as there are no indications of a reduced requirement per se.

Mapping how the Iranian regime is failing its own people by converting the country into a graveyard while claiming symbolic success of 'resistance' against a superpower.

A debate on relations between India with Pakistan that is familiar has emerged a year after Operation Sindoor 1. The Operation is continuing per se. Concomitantly, a debate over dialogue with Pakistan is doing the rounds in India, while some voices have gone to the opposite end of the spectrum talking of ‘dismemberment'

Targeted attacks on Indian flagged ship off the coast of Oman presumably by Iranian state or supported nonstate actors will test India’s multi-alignment policy in the Gulf balancing Iran with a tilt towards the UAE and Israel.

Iran proposes to sustain a long blockade of the Straits of Hormuz where diplomacy is seen as a hedge and not a resolution of the ongoing crisis. Iran is banking on international pressure for opening the Straits as the energy crunch is spiralling into a poly crisis in Asia and Europe.

An option to end the current impasse in the Straits of Hormuz in the next two weeks could be exercised by the United States after May 15, and it is not more negotiations with Iran.

Three options for prosecution of Operation Sindoor 2 which can emphatically denote success of the Indian Armed Force beyond the narrative common in today’s war, discussed.

The United States and Israel, while facing economic challenges, are inured to the shock of poverty by their developed status. Iran, on the other hand, is in a state of resignation, accepting interminable human and material losses while ironically “celebrating” regime survival. Even as Rest of the World suffers.

Col R Hariharan in Sri Lanka Perspectives April 2026 outlines how the AKD government is managing one of the gravest economic and energy crisis faxed by the Island Nation eve as it is on the path of fiscal recovery.

India’s conflict with Pakistan in May 2025—which involved the use of combat aircraft, drones and missiles— pushed up military spending during the year. Pakistan’s military spending grew by 11 per cent to $11.9 billion in 2025.