What’s changed between Op Sindoor 1 and a projected Operation Sindoor 2 – here is a review of nine variables - strategic, diplomatic, military and terrorism which are likely to change and one constant.

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.

The Defence Forces Vision 2047 outlines many of the desired capabilities for a modern military progressing over the next two decades or so. The ominbus approach denotes complexity of the mission and the necessity for political and military will and commitment to achieve the aims laid down.

As India continues to languish in the top two nations for arms imports globally, a conversation with SIPRI expert Siemon T Wezeman provides perspectives and how India could shed this “distinction”.

With a world at war, an increase in volume of arms transfers by 9.2 percent during the period 2021-25 from the previous five­year period (2016–20) marked by the SIPRI Report.

Representative Image India Defence Industry by Wix AI A Draft of the much-heralded Defence Acquisition Procedure has now been released for public comments, even though the time given for the same may be less by March 03. Yet there is a workable document on which relevant stakeholders can now provide their inputs to the Department of Defence, Ministry of Defence. The “Procedure for Acquisition of Aero Space Systems,” is being worked separately in consultation with the stake ho

Representative Image Futuristic Soldier Coutesy Wix While the military across the world had been studying the use of Artificial Intelligence or AI form some years now, the emergence of ChatGPT in the public domain apart from other AI tools such as Google’s Bard [Now Gemini] has fired the imagination of even the lay military men to exploitation of AI for a variety of operational and logistics tasks ranging from surveillance to inventory management. The War in Ukraine could we

Representative Picture Courtesy Wix As the seminal AI Impact Summit is taking place in Delhi inaugurated by the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi here is a look at how the Chinese are making use of AI for satellite surveillance. Demonstration of employment of AI for satellite surveillance by Chinese researchers which had led to the low earth observation satellite Qimingxing 1, homing on to Patna and Danapur Cantt can be a timely warning of the way ahead for securing inform

Representative Image Coming in the wake of the AI Impacct Summit in New Delhi from 16 to 20 February this new SIPRI report "Responsible Procurement of Military Artificial Intelligence" [Report] by Netta Goussac and Dr Vincent Boulanin examines the intersection of military procurement and responsible military artificial intelligence (AI). As per the Executive Summary of the Report it investigates the reasons for an how states are adapting procurement processes for military AI

The U.S. National Defence Strategy [NDS] 2026 outlines strategic priorities of the United States, how do these impact India, here is a preview Key Deductions Indian Perspective India and the United States have renewed their defence cooperation agreement for another 10 years in 2025. As one of the important strategic partners of the U.S. in the Indo Pacific, the NDS is of considerable interest to India. While the US National Security Strategy 2025 had outlined priority of the