Is White phosphorus an inhumane weapon? This paper explores the legal classification of White phosphorus under the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, the Chemical Weapons Convention, and the Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Any…... Olivia Ibbotson , Lijun Shang | January-June 2025 | CBW Magazine
CBRN Threat from Non-State Actors: A Historical Perspective This article analyses the evolving threat of Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear (CBRN) weapons from non-state actors, with implications for modern military strategy. It traces the historical use of biological…... KTG Krishnan , Rajan Bakshi | January-June 2025 | CBW Magazine
The Corona Pandemic: An Imperative Holistic Readdressing of the Genuine Roots of the Virus In an unprecedented move, a recently revamped leading White House website item unapologetically accuses China of being the provenance of the coronavirus pandemic, due to a lab leak of a…... Dany Shoham | January-June 2025 | CBW Magazine
Afghanistan Under Taliban Publisher: Pentagon Press The edited volume comprises 16 chapters contributed by Afghan, Central Asian, Iranian, Russian, Western, and Indian scholars and analysts. The chapters not only dwell on country perspectives... Vishal Chandra | | Book
Taliban’s Amnesty: An Assessment The Taliban's unwritten and ambiguous 'general amnesty' neither implies Tpolitical integration nor national reconciliation. It's about total control, and about who gets to stay and who gets to come back,... Vishal Chandra | | Monograph
Resetting Ties: Modi’s Visit Reinvigorates India–Maldives Relations Prime Minister Modi’s visit to Male reflected the pragmatic recalibration of bilateral relations recently soured under President Mohamed Muizzu’s ‘India Out’ campaign. Anand Kumar | | IDSA Comments
Salafi Al-Shabaab and Shia Houthis: Ominous Ties across the Red Sea Notwithstanding their sectarian differences, Al-Shabaab and Houthis are in cohorts over warring with the West and its allies in the wake of the Gaza crisis. Adil Rasheed | | IDSA Comments
The Western Indian Ocean and Maritime Domain Awareness Information-Sharing Platforms help achieve interoperability with friendly nations and can build effective maritime domain awareness in the Western Indian Ocean. V Krishna Kumar | | IDSA Comments
Compressing the MoD’s Capital Procurement Timelines It is necessary to eliminate or combine two or more stages and introduce AI-enabled processes at various stages to compress the MoD’s capital procurement timelines. Amit Cowshish | | IDSA Comments
Israel’s Strategic Priorities in Post-Assad Syria Israel’s July 2025 military intervention in Syria is motivated by an attempt to preserve the post-December 2024 territorial security status quo. Hirak Jyoti Das , Abhishek Yadav | | Issue Brief
