On the morning of January 3, 2026, the United States carried out an operation against Venezuela: deposing a sitting president Nicolás Maduro and his wife from the heartland of a heavily guarded capital. Although the legality and morality of this operation are highly contested, this article focuses on an equally important dimension, which is the employment of airpower in conflicts.
Amidst transforming regional security dynamics, India reinforced its eastern flank by establishing three fully operational military stations at strategic points around the ‘Siliguri Corridor’ near the India-Bangladesh border. The new bases include the Lachit Borphukan Military Station near Dhubri in Assam along with two forward bases at Chopra in West Bengal and Kishanganj in Bihar. Indian Army also reviews a fourth station in Mizoram as part of extended defence arc around the Siliguri corridor. Amidst deteriorating ties with Bangladesh, India’s fortification of its eastern
Since President Trump assumed office in his second term, a lot has been said about peaceful culmination of the Russia-Ukraine war. The President himself claimed that the end of the war is imminent. Though conditions for negotiated ceasefire gradually coalesce, the frontline remains entrenched in stalemate as Professor John Mearsheimer puts it ‘the conflict will be settled on the battlefield, period, end of the story.’ As of late 2025, the U.S. led high-level discussions to end Russia-Ukraine conflicts have intensified. Most notable are Alaska summit, talks in Berlin and recently Miami Peace Talks where officials have met to discuss the Ukraine Peace Plan, NATO-like security guarantees for Ukraine, territorial issues
On 27-28 November 2025, India hosted its flagship high-level strategic forum…
In contemporary air warfare, there is a silent battle that begins long before the first missile is fired: the battle of the mind. The Indo-Pakistan conflict of 2025 reaffirmed this truth. In that short but decisive engagement, Pakistan Air Force (PAF) demonstrated that in modern warfare, victory is no longer about airframes destroyed but in the mastery of cognition, which is the ability to think faster, act smarter and control perception under stress. To make victory second nature, institutionalisation of cognitive gains through AI, cross-domain integration and leadership development is paramount for modern air forces.
On 30th October 2025, President Donald Trump and the Chinese Head of State Xi Jinping met for the first time in 6 years at Gimhae Air Base in Busan, South Korea.
The war in Ukraine has transformed into a high-tech siege of attrition where diplomacy has proven futile. From direct Russia-Ukraine talks in 2022 to Alaska Summit in 2025, any attempt to broker a peace settlement has consistently ended in a deadlock.
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