Strait of Hormuz

Iran Crisis, Limits of American Military Power, and the Rise of China as Trusted Custodian of Multipolar Diplomacy

On the morning of May 26, three major capitals were confronting different dimensions of the same geopolitical crisis. In New Delhi, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with Quad foreign ministers and warned that maritime security had become one...
South Korea Nuclear Submarine

South Korea Advances Toward Nuclear Submarine Capability, Set to Join China and India as Third Asian Operator and Seventh Globally

South Korea has officially unveiled what officials are calling a “historic plan” to develop nuclear-powered submarines, signaling one of the most significant expansions of the country’s naval capabilities in decades and potentially reshaping the strategic balance in the Indo-Pacific. The...
India’s Undersea Power Shift: How P-75I Submarines from TKMS Will Dwarf Kilo-Class Boats and Transform Conventional Submarine Warfare

India’s Undersea Power Shift: How P-75I Submarines from TKMS Will Dwarf Kilo-Class Boats and Transform Conventional Submarine Warfare

India is moving closer to a major leap in underwater warfare capability with the long-anticipated Project-75I (P-75I), a strategic naval modernization program that will deliver six next-generation diesel-electric attack submarines in partnership with Germany’s thyssenkrupp Marine Systems and India’s Mazagon...
Type 10 Tank

Philippines Eyes Japan’s Type 10 Tank After Israeli Sabrah Delivery Delays Reshape Indo-Pacific Armored Warfare Strategy

The Philippine Army is undertaking a significant reassessment of its armored warfare roadmap, a process that is increasingly expanding beyond platform selection into wider questions of supply chain resilience, alliance diversification, and long-term combat readiness amid intensifying Indo-Pacific security competition....
Ohio-class submarine

US shrinking nuclear submarine fleet is emerging as critical strategic vulnerability, China and Russia accelerate undersea warfare expansion across Indo-Pacific, Arctic, and North Atlantic

The nuclear-powered attack submarine fleet operated by the United States is emerging as one of the most consequential structural challenges in contemporary maritime security, as both China and Russia accelerate their undersea warfare modernization programs across multiple strategic theatres. What...
KF-21 Fighter

South Korea’s Potential KF-21 Fighter Delay Raises Strategic Challenges to Indo-Pacific Deterrence and Military Modernization

A potential multi-year delay in South Korea’s flagship indigenous fighter program is rapidly evolving from a budgetary concern into a broader strategic issue with implications for Indo-Pacific deterrence architecture, defence-industrial credibility, and Seoul’s long-term military autonomy. As South Korea considers...
China Expands Bay of Bengal

China Expands Toward Bay of Bengal, India Reimagines Its Eastern Seaboard as a Strategic and Economic Powerhouse

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has repeatedly stressed that the Indo-Pacific must remain “free, open and inclusive.” Increasingly, India’s eastern seaboard is becoming the central pillar of that vision, transforming from a largely economic coastline into a critical geopolitical and...
PL-17 ultra-long-range air-to-air missile - J-10C Fighters

China’s PL-17 Ultra-Long-Range Air-to-Air Missile on J-10C Fighters Signals Potentially Disruptive Shift in Indo-Pacific Air Superiority and Beyond-Visual-Range Combat Doctrine

China’s reported integration of the PL-17 ultra-long-range air-to-air missile onto the lightweight Chengdu J-10C fighter aircraft is emerging as a potentially transformative development in Indo-Pacific airpower dynamics, with implications extending across regional deterrence architectures and beyond-visual-range combat doctrine. The development,...
Russian Project 20380 corvette Sovershenny

Russia Expands Pacific Fleet Warships to Escort Sanctioned Shadow Fleet Convoy Through Tsushima Strait Amid Rising Indo-Pacific Security Tensions

The transit of a 10-ship Russian naval convoy through Japan’s strategically sensitive Tsushima Strait has intensified international scrutiny over Moscow’s accelerating militarisation of sanctions-evasion shipping networks stretching from the Baltic Sea to the Indo-Pacific maritime theatre. The convoy’s movement into...
Trump–Xi

Trump–Xi Meets Looms Over Iran Crisis and Trade War as Taiwan’s Porcupine Strategy Faces Its Toughest Test Against China’s Expanding Military Power

 The Chinese government confirmed on Monday that U.S. President Donald Trump will visit China from May 13 to 15, marking a significant diplomatic engagement between the world’s two largest economies at a moment of heightened geopolitical friction. The visit, at...
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