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Donald Trump’s return to the White House in 2025 raises serious questions about the future of the U.S. nuclear arsenal.

Lt Gen DP Pandey Why refer only to politics of Kashmir and not the politics of ‘Jammu and Kashmir’? Ladakh was ignored in the ...

Brinkmanship is an old idea, but not such an old word. It was first used in 1956, after US Secretary of State John Foster Dulles opined that “the ability to get to the verge without getting into ...

Taiwan leader Lai Ching-te's recent speech demonstrated the dangerous nature of his brinkmanship policies and secessionist ...

So, Israel has now embarked on a policy of brinkmanship, intensifying its operations in Gaza, taking out functionaries associated with IRGC, Hezbollah and Hamas, neutralising its most implacable ...

In the wake of these provocations, analysts fret about the heightened risk of military accidents and strategic misperceptions. They worry that incidents of this sort could ratchet up tensions until ...

Without last-minute agreements to lift the debt ceiling, the American government might have defaulted on some of its obligations, a potentially cataclysmic event for global markets and for the ...

Sadly, with the current political dynamics seen daily on both mainstream and social media, we are witnessing behavior that ...

Donald Trump’s victory has confirmed him as the greatest populist of the age.

The endorsement from Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman to the resolve of the 57 nations for a Palestinian state should be taken as writing on the wall. Likewise, the thaw between Tehran and ...

Metrics include economic conditions as well as governance standards. Fitch downgraded the U.S. sovereign credit profile by ...