Prakash Nanda

Among the so-called controversial nominations for the top positions in his second Administration that will commence on January 20, 2025, one happens to be former Army National Guard major and former Fox News host Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s choice for the Secretary of Defense. Hegseth is a decorated veteran who served as an Army […]

Among the so-called controversial nominations for the top positions in his second Administration that will commence on January 20, 2025, one happens to be former Army National Guard major and former Fox News host Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump's choice for the Secretary of Defense.

There seems to be a global consensus among the strategic elites that the overthrow of the Assad regime in a huge jolt to Iran and Russia, whose military support, along with that of Hezbollah of neighboring Lebanon, the Syrian strongman was critically dependent upon ever since the outbreak of the civil war in 2011 in the country.

Usually, at the beginning or end of a year, various organizations and experts indulge in the exercise of “global ranking” of the countries. These rankings differ from one another as the metrics of their respective rankings vary. One such ranking has been just released on who will be “The Eight Great Powers of 2025.” Here, […]

Though China has been expanding its influence in the Indo-Pacific, India’s Chief of Naval Staff, Admiral Dinesh Kumar Tripathi, says that “The Indian Navy remains combat ready, credible, cohesive, and future-ready force committed to ensuring safe seas and secure maritime environment in consonance with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision of Security And Growth for All […]

The perceived onset of a “Civil War” within President-elect Donald Trump's MAGA (Make America Great Again) team between hardliners and technocrat Elon Musk over issues like highly skilled but legal immigration and bi-partisan budget deals may have a collateral impact on the tenure of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Air Force Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr.

The rhetoric of the ‘dangers of immigration’ may fetch votes. Still, the growing importance of legal and planned immigration for a country’s economic development can hardly be overestimated, and incoming President Donald Trump will likely face this dilemma when he begins his second term in office on January 20. As it is, Trump’s MAGA team […]

In his just concluded farewell visit to India, the outgoing U.S. National Security Advisor (NSA) Jake Sullivan announced that the potential of the stalled nuclear deal between the two countries would now be realized with Washington removing Indian entities, including the Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research and the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, from its restricted list to boost nuclear power and high-tech cooperation.

President-elect Donald Trump’s proposals to acquire Canada as the 51st state and regain control of the Panama Canal may sound facetious, but his offer to buy Greenland, an offer he first made during his first presidential term in 2019, has a serious history behind, a history of both geopolitics and geoeconomics. Trump is not the […]

Given the unpredictability of re-elected U.S. President Donald Trump’s policy toward European security, defense ministers of five European countries issued a joint statement on January 13 in Helenów, Poland. The statement by five nations – France, Germany, Italy, Poland, and the UK – said that “a strong European defense industry and supply chains will form […]