Operation Sindoor Uncovered

Why India Must Embrace an Attritional Strategy After Operation Sindoor

Though Operation Sindoor demonstrated India’s military resolve, deterring Pakistan-backed terrorism in the long run will require a persistent attritional strategy centred on covert capabilities. ...

Red Teaming After Operation Sindoor: From Tactical Wins to Strategic Security

Aggressive red teaming would help discover gaps and vulnerabilities before India’s adversaries do. Against this backdrop, these seven questions are critical for the post-Op Sindoor strategic environment ...

Operation Sindoor: A Coming of Age for India’s Defence Industry

Operation Sindoor showcased the operational maturity of India’s indigenous defence capabilities. Turning this success into long-term self-reliance demands sustained funding, political will, and institutional reform. ...

Operation Sindoor and India’s Cyber Threat Landscape

As India launched Operation Sindoor, cyberspace turned into a war theatre—with malware, disinformation, and digital offensives—marking a new frontier in the India–Pakistan rivalry. ...

Operation Sindoor: Trump’s Fault Lines

Trump’s opportunistic meddling in Operation Sindoor reveals fault lines in US-India ties and a troubling pivot in Washington’s Pakistan policy. ...

Cementing India’s Intelligence Edge Against Pakistan After Operation Sindoor

Operation Sindoor proved India’s intel edge over Pakistan. To hold it, Delhi now needs deeper regional ties, a counter-disinformation strategy, and covert action. ...

‘Balakot Plus Plus’: Positioning Offensive Air Power at the Centre of Indian Deterrence

Operation Sindoor marks a doctrinal shift in India’s national security, reviving offensive air power as a credible, calibrated, and potent instrument of deterrence ...

Post Op Sindoor, A Battle For Narrative Dominance

New Delhi’s diplomacy outreach must take charge of the story as the side that frames the question often controls the answer   ...

Testing Doctrine in Action: Operation Sindoor and India’s Military Calculus

Operation Sindoor exemplifies India’s effective conduct of warfare to recalibrate deterrence through cost-imposition in the physical and cognitive domains of the adversary. ...

The Turkish Challenge for New Delhi

Turkey has been consistently supporting Pakistan’s position on Kashmir even as Islamabad has reciprocated by backing Ankara’s claims on Cyprus ...

Post-Sindoor, A New Reality for India and Pakistan

India has embraced an assertive strategy of escalation dominance to impose steep costs on future Pakistan-backed terrorism. ...

Rethinking India’s Cyber Readiness in the Age of Information Warfare

As cyber operations blur with psychological warfare, India must build resilience not just in systems, but in narratives, perception, and public trust ...

Drone Warfare: Contrasting India-Pakistan Tactics and Capacities

The India–Pakistan aerial clash marked South Asia’s first major drone war—a sign of what's to come. ...

Operation Sindoor: The Pakistan Problem Temporarily Contained, Not Permanently Addressed

India's Operation Sindoor calls Pakistan’s nuclear bluff and resets the rules of engagement with a clear new redline: terror will cost more than ever ...

Operation Sindoor: There's A Unique 'ISIS' History To Pakistan's Drones

Operation Sindoor — a reshaping of confrontation

The most important lesson is that contemporary warfare is now multi-dimensional ...

Trump and Beyond: The Kashmir Factor in India-US Ties

Despite Trump's curious attempt to take credit where none is due, New Delhi remains in the driving seat when it comes to it making choices pertaining to Pakistan and its ...

Operation Sindoor and India’s changing military strategy

India’s emergent techno-military doctrine is redefining calibrated escalation to impose the cost of ‘fighting without victory’ on Pakistan within the nuclear environment. ...

After Operation Sindoor, a diminished terror landscape

Instead of responding with counterterror operations, which are conservative and contained, operations such as Operation Sindoor will be the new norm ...

Why India Is Right Not To Play Into Pakistan's War Bait

The Use of Drones Marks a New Phase in India-Pakistan Hostilities

Drone warfare is redefining escalation in the India-Pakistan conflict, enabling precision strikes with deniability but also increasing the risk of miscalculation between the two countries ...

The Nuclear Overhang: India-Pakistan Escalation After Pahalgam

The latest episode of India-Pakistan hostilities exposes the erosion of nuclear deterrence in the face of proxy warfare and political brinkmanship ...

Lessons from Pahalgam: Deny Geospatial Tech to Terrorists

In the fight against terrorism, preventing the misuse of civilian-commercial technologies by terrorist groups should be the priority ...

Operation Sindoor: A Doctrinal Shift and Also an Inflection Point

An India that’s firmly on the rise has signalled its resolve to shift the cost of terrorism to its epicentre ...

Rethinking Non-Alignment in South Asia Amid Uncertainty in Pakistan

Countries in the Subcontinent must realise that the benefits that Pakistan could bring to the region are rapidly declining ...

Are India-Pakistan Stuck In An 'Escalation Cycle' Now?

Operation Sindoor: Understanding Context and Consequences

A high-precision, multi-domain offensive, Operation Sindoor represents the strategic evolution of India’s counter-terrorism doctrine ...

Operation Sindoor and AQIS: What India’s Airstrikes Triggered in the Jihadist World

AQIS’s jihad call post-Op Sindoor marks a strategic escalation, spotlighting India as a primary target in its ideological and regional campaign. ...

Operation Sindoor and Beyond: India’s Response and Pakistani Calculus

India's evolving strategy against Pakistan-sponsored terrorism highlights the delicate balance between deterrence, escalation, and the complexities of global geopolitics ...

Terror and Escalation: India’s Lessons from Pathankot to Pulwama

India's response to terror has evolved and emerged out of the shadows of its past attacks. Examining Pathankot, Uri, and Pulwama provides key (un)learnings for India’s future security challenges. ...

The Art of War and the Craft of Diplomacy: Mastering the Choreography of Escalation

In this shadowed theatre of subcontinental power, the art of war must be tempered by the craft of diplomacy. ...