2025 saw most state-based conflicts since World War II
The 1950s stood out as the most peaceful decade under review
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The 1950s stood out as the most peaceful decade under review
Wars and border tensions have pushed up budgets since Independence but the expenditure tends to fall back once a situation eases
The Business Standard Defence Index is designed to track the performance of 25 key defence stocks
Youth protests in South Asia and elsewhere signal change in future diplomacy, experts say
A deft history of how the United States built a massive standing army without destroying its own democracy
An opportunistic exception to government rules heralded this liberalisation in 2001
The government’s indigenisation policy aimed at developing a robust domestic defence ecosystem, has underpinned growth for the sector.
As several international relations scholars had predicted at the Cold War’s end, the US is now faced with a genuine peer competitor, the PRC
India’s air power today sits at the centre of a far more complex security environment than at any point in the past two decades