IDSA Comments

The Risk of a Renewed Nuclear Arms Race

2025 ,

President Donald Trump announced[i] on the Truth Social platform on 30 October 2025 that the United States will resume the testing of nuclear weapons. Trump’s social media post notes that...

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Indian Navy Gets a New Communications Satellite

2025 ,

India’s Launch Vehicle Mark-3 (LVM3) successfully launched a communication satellite, CMS-03, on 2 November 2025. According to the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), this multi-band communication satellite is intended to...

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Rising Anti-Government Protests in Southeast Asia

2025 ,

Southeast Asia has witnessed rising anti-government protests and demonstrations in recent years. Since the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, Southeast Asian countries, most of which fall under the middle-income economies, have struggled...

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Technology, Terror and National Security Challenges

2025 ,

Technology's rapid and unpredictable evolution in today's interconnected world creates a constantly changing environment where state actors and terrorists use new technologies to gain strategic advantages. The relationship between technological...

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Is Multilateralism Dead?

2025 ,

Given that some of the most significant institutions of the United Nations (UN) have failed miserably in discharging the functions for which they were established, many argue that multilateralism has...

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