Unvarnished analysis and strategic foresight. • 16 articles
While the world watched Ukraine and Iran, India quietly rewrote its naval doctrine, expanded SAGAR into MAHASAGAR, commissioned new island bases, and watched a US submarine sink an Iranian frigate forty nautical miles off Sri Lanka. None of it has been discussed as the coherent maritime strategy it actually is.

A 352-metre rope-and-buoy barrier at Scarborough Shoal looks like a minor incident. Read as part of a pattern stretching from the Paracels to the Taiwan Strait, it exposes the operating system behind Beijing's gray-zone playbook — and a widening Indo-Pacific contest India can no longer watch from the sidelines.