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8 February 2026

On track: India’s rail-based Agni-Prime

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Karl Dewey Source Link On 24 September 2025, India launched a medium-range ballistic missile (MRBM) designated Agni-Prime (Agni-P) from the...

What the US-India trade deal really means

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Saroj Kumar Rath Source Link Although United States-India cooperation remains a fundamentally positive-sum enterprise, advancing both econom...

India’s Strategic Recalibration: Managing US Volatility and China’s Opportunism

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Anna Maria Treifeldt Source Link However, Trump’s tariffs, lack of progress in Quad (India, Australia, Japan, and the US) initiatives, and a...

From Dependence To Diversification: Afghanistan’s Ban On Pakistani Medicines And Its Regional Impact – OpEd

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Zahid Khalili Source Link On November 12, 2025, the Taliban government in Afghanistan (the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan) announced a ban ...

Five years on: Myanmar under military rule

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Source Link On 1 February 2021, the country descended into a world of conflict following the military’s overthrow of the democratically elec...

Xi Jinping’s Military Purges Leave Him Increasingly Powerful but Isolated

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Daniel Shats, Alison O’Neil Source Link Key Takeaway: Chinese Communist Party (CCP) General Secretary Xi Jinping has expanded his military p...

Missile barrages and cyber operations: Iran outlines multi-front war plan against US

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SHIR PERETS Source Link The concept echoes recent years of proxy warfare across Lebanon, Iraq, Syria, and the Red Sea, where Houthi maritime...

Bombs And Backlash: How U.S. Strikes Could Strengthen Iran’s Regime – Analysis

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Shaunak Nath Source Link Reports that the United States is repositioning military units for a potential strike on Iran have coincided with a...

America in the Crosshairs: The Emergence of Destabilization as Global Strategy

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The Ren Way Source Link In early 2026, as new Jeffrey Epstein related documents began surfacing in courts and in newsrooms on both sides of ...

Russian general shot several times in Moscow

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Paul Kirby Source Link A high-profile general in Russia's military has been shot several times and wounded in Moscow.  Lt Gen Vladimir A...

The Transition to Phase II in the Gaza Strip—An Unprecedented Challenge for Israel

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Yohanan Tzoreff Source Link President Trump and his envoy Steve Witkoff announced on January 14 and 15 the start of Phase II of the 20-point...

What Comes Next for Gaza and Trump’s Board of Peace

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Robert Barron Source Link Trump Advances Gaza Peace Plan.  In mid-January 2026, the Trump administration advanced its peace plan for Gaza fr...

What to Expect from Africa-China Relations in 2026

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Source Link Chinese Minister of Foreign Affairs and Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Politburo Member Wang Yi’s annual inaugural visit to Afric...

Jamestown FoundationChina Brief

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China Brief January 10, 2025, v. 26, no. 1   Xi Projects Confidence in Shorter New Year’s Speech PLA Justice Mission 2025 Further Rehearses ...

Strength Over Peace: Venezuela, Iran, and the Dicey Politics of Military Intervention

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Jeffrey A. Friedman Source Link American President Donald Trump wants to be known as the U.S. leader who ends wars—the “president of peace,”...

The Limits of Russian Power: Why Putin Isn’t Thriving in Trump’s Anarchic World

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Michael Kimmage and Hanna Notte Source Link On the eve of invading Ukraine in 2022, Russia enjoyed a decent global position. It had a strong...

Cost constraints on the US–Russia strategic nuclear balance after New START

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Alexander K. Bollfrass Source Link The New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, New START, the last legally binding bilateral treaty limiting th...

2026 - 2036: A Defining Decade

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Jack Gardner Source Link In 2036, daily life will look and feel very different.  We are in a period of profound disruption driven by rapid t...

The steel porcupine: How Ukraine plans to defend itself after the war

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Veronika Melkozerova Source Link KYIV — Ukraine fears it can’t rely on security guarantees from its allies in any potential peace deal , an...

'Still lethal': As Tehran tests US resolve, Iranian drones pose a deadly threat, experts say

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DANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD Source Link Iran's drones are slow, but present a significant threat due to their numbers as part of Iran's...

From Defence to Offence: How Anti-Drone Technologies Are Empowering Militants in a New Era of Coordinated Drone Warfare

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Imtiaz Baloch and Esham Farooq Source Link In 2025, Pakistani security forces witnessed at least 405 quadcopter attacks by Islamists Tehree...

The Tech Policy Toolkit | Data Tools for Economic Statecraft and National Security

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Source Link Technology policy now sits at the center of economic and national security decision-making. Policymakers need tools that transla...

Night Vision at a Crossroads: When Technology Outpaces the Neurobiology of Close Combat

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Alan Kearney Source Link A few months ago, during a closed-door seminar involving senior officials in the United States defense community, I...

Bombs, Bots, and the Principle of Distinction: The Law of Armed Conflict and Contemporary Warfare

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Nathan G. Wood Source Link Militaries around the world are developing increasingly autonomous weapons systems. These efforts, however, have ...

The Changing Face of War | Texas National Security Review

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Source Link The Changing Face of War (Winter 2026) issue of the Texas National Security Review is a standout, featuring a slate of compell...
7 February 2026

Bangladesh And Sri Lanka Foil Indian Tycoon Adani’s Bid To Foist Unequal Deals – Analysis

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Shiamak Ali Source Link Bangladesh is home to the world’s 8th largest population– composing around 175 million people pressed into one of So...

The Long Game:Pakistan’s Military and the Collapse of the Hybrid Pretense

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Source Link The story of how Pakistan’s army, with the tacit and often explicit support of imperial patrons in Washington, engineered this s...

Taiwan: Defense And Military Issues – Analysis

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Caitlin Campbell Source Link Taiwan (which formally calls itself the Republic of China, or ROC) is a self-governing democracy of 23.3 millio...

China’s Cheap Oil Strategy Is Becoming a Geopolitical Liability

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Nik Foster Source Link The U.S government’s removal of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro last month is upending broader geopolitics as we...

Ruptures in China’s Leadership Could Be Due to Paranoia and Power Plays

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Edward Wong and Julian E. Barnes Source Link Since taking the reins of the world’s most populous superpower nearly 14 years ago, Xi Jinping ...

As a parade of US allies rattled by Trump visit China, Beijing claims a win for its new world order

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Simone McCarthy Source Link As US President Donald Trump takes a sledgehammer to longstanding alliances with a volatile foreign policy that’...

China’s Redlines Aren’t Where You Think They Are | USNI Proceedings

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Source Link In China’s Redlines Aren’t Where You Think They Are , Lt. Col. Brian Kerg argues that U.S. planners consistently misread the sou...

Machines in the Alleyways: China’s Bet on Autonomous Urban Warfare

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Michael C. Loftus Source Link Much of the public discussion on China’s development of autonomous weapons systems thus far has centered on th...

How might a functional ‘M12’ grouping of middle powers look like?

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Gabriel Elefteriu Source Link As world order frays and old alliances falter, the search is on for new solutions to stabilise the internatio...

The new right: Anatomy of a global political revolution

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Mark Leonard Source Link “[Europe’s] economic decline is eclipsed by the real and more stark prospect of civilizational erasure”, proclaimed...