The Quad Foreign Ministers’ Meeting and Courses for its Future The Quad Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in May 2026 underscored the Quad’s continuing relevance as a provider of regional public goods and services in the Indo-Pacific. Arnab Dasgupta | | IDSA Comments
The Deepening India–South Korea Cooperation in Arms Production and Shipbuilding India–South Korea relations are moving towards deeper engagement in strategic industries, such as arms production and shipbuilding Ranjit Kumar Dhawan | | IDSA Comments
India’s BRICS Test: Can New Delhi Hold a Fractured Bloc Together? The challenge before India’s BRICS presidency is not to eliminate internal differences but to manage them effectively enough to preserve functional cooperation. Rajeesh Kumar | | IDSA Comments
Death Sentences to Former Chinese Defence Ministers: Xi Jinping Cracks Down on PLA Corruption Xi Jinping has been using the anti-corruption drive against PLA officers to deal with disloyal personnel or rival factions. Abhishek Kumar Darbey | | IDSA Comments
From American Primacy to Negotiated Bipolarity: The Strategic Meaning of the Trump-Xi Summit At the Trump–Xi summit, Beijing attempted to normalise the idea of negotiated bipolarity, a world no longer organised solely around American primacy. Swati Arun | | Issue Brief
NASM-SR and the Evolution of India’s Indigenous Maritime Strike Capability Naval Anti-Ship Missile–Short Range (NASM-SR) represents an indigenous effort to equip smaller aerial platforms with stand-off maritime strike capability. Rahul Wankhede | | IDSA Comments
A Helium Shock to India’s Quantum Technology Ambitions India's quantum ambitions could be affected if its dependence on helium supply chains is left unaddressed. Shantanu Sharma , Krishna Bhatia | | Issue Brief
Rwanda 1994: A Failure of Leadership and a Preventable Genocide, by Paolo Tripodi The author of Rwanda 1994: A Failure of Leadership and a Preventable Genocide, Dr Paolo Tripodi, is a professor and the ethics branch head at the Lejeune Leadership Institute, Marine... D. Padma Kumar Pillay | January-March 2026 | Journal of Defence Studies
The Thousand Years War: Russia and the West, by Achala Moulik History is often written as a sequence of discrete events, each confined to its own time and place. Achala Moulik’s The Thousand Years War: Russia and the West does not... Guru Saday Batabyal | January-March 2026 | Journal of Defence Studies
The Art of War by Sun Tzu (Translator: Lionel Giles) Sun Tzu’s The Art of War remains one of the greatest works on strategy, warfare and leadership ever written (around 5th century BCE) with an influence that extends far beyond... Manorama Kuntal | January-March 2026 | Journal of Defence Studies
