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New Arsenal

Wars have often accelerated technological change. The machine gun altered infantry tactics, the tank transformed mobility, and air power redefined strategic reach.

Tariff Reboot

President Donald Trump’s trade policy has acquired a second life. After the US Supreme Court curtailed key elements of the architecture that defined much of his economic agenda, the White House has returned with a familiar instrument wrapped in a different justification.

Cattle Shed Answer

On 28 February 2026, the war that diplomats had spent two years rehearsing began. American and Israeli aircraft struck Iranian nuclear and missile installations; Iran’s Supreme Leader was killed, and by 2 March the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps had formally closed the Strait of Hormuz to merchant traffic, laying mines and warning off shipping.

Footprint expands

India’s steady transition from one of the world’s largest arms importers to an emerging defence exporter marks a significant structural shift in its strategic and economic trajectory.

Urban Fragility

The crisis unfolding across India’s cities is not, at its core, about cooking gas. It is about the quiet architecture of exclusion that underpins urban growth.

Divided Intelligence

The contest shaping the 21st century is not a war in the traditional sense, but a race to define how intelligence itself will be produced, deployed, and controlled.