Prakash Nanda

That Artificial Intelligence (AI), as an enabling technology, now holds the extraordinary potential to transform every aspect of military affairs has been amply evident in the ongoing war in Ukraine and Israel's counterattacks in Gaza and Lebanon.

Americans will elect a new President in November. One of the hottest debating points in the ongoing electioneering in the United States these days happens to be who, as the 47th President, will consolidate and further the global military supremacy of the world's number one power.

With Israel now simultaneously fighting Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Libya, Houthi rebels in Yemen, Iran-backed terrorists in Syria and Jordan and getting prepared to engage militarily with Iran, questions are being raised about the capacity of its mighty tech industry to withstand a wider war.

In what must be one of the rarest of rare events, a Prime Minister, who happens to be the Head of a Government, holds a press conference to declare as many as six diplomats, including the Ambassador (High Commissioner) of a friendly foreign country, persona non grata.

Strange as it may seem, but it is true that the Five Eyes intelligence partnership, which Canada is relying on the most to prove its charges of Indian involvement in the murder of a Khalistani terrorist and gathering intelligence on other such terrorists on its soil, is potentially open for India being a part of it along with Japan, Germany, and South Korea.

There are two ways of looking at India and China agreeing to end the 54-month-old military standoff in eastern Ladakh and resume joint patrolling along the Line of Control in the disputed border areas so as to maintain peace and tranquillity. The convenient way is to describe it as an important prelude to the top […]

There are two ways of looking at India and China agreeing to end the 54-month-old military standoff in eastern Ladakh and resume joint patrolling along the Line of Control in the disputed border areas so as to maintain peace and tranquillity.

As the world celebrated the 79th United Nations (U.N.) Day on October 24, the so-called G-4 nations—Brazil, Germany, India, and Japan—reiterated their demand for a reform of the United Nations Security Council by expanding its permanent and non-permanent categories of membership. All four want to be permanent members. But is that possible in the foreseeable […]

Is mobocracy the criterion on the basis of which the government of a country can be changed or ousted? Is a government set up by people in the streets through the intimidation of legitimate authorities going to be a global norm?

“The Indian Air Force is working hard to remain a credible Air Force,” says India’s Air Chief Marshal Amar Preet Singh, who took over as the 28th Air Chief of India on September 30, 2024. He is an alumnus of the National Defence Academy, Defence Services Staff College, and National Defence College. He is […]