Saudi Arabia is confronting a worsening security crisis after Houthi forces seized key positions along Yemen’s Red Sea coast and resumed missile and drone attacks against Saudi infrastructure, while the network of
Rajesh Kumar Singh, a 1989-batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer from the Kerala cadre, assumed charge as India’s 40th Defence Secretary on Friday, taking office at South Block, Delhi. Singh succeeds Aramane
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On October 25, 2024, a 19-year-old under training Army lieutenant, Arif Ullah, who was on leave at his hometown, was gunned down by unidentified militants during prayers in a mosque in the
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After I became the eighth Executive President of Sri Lanka, I handed over the Easter Sunday Attack Commission reports to the President of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference, Bishop Harold Anthony Fernando, at
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Former Presidential Advisor and ex-National Security Advisor, Sagala Ratnayaka, has urged the government to re-appoint a National Security Advisor (NSA) in light of potential threats posed by terrorist groups. Speaking to the
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Editorial Today’s urgent warning from the U.S. Embassy in Sri Lanka about a potential attack on popular tourist locations, particularly Arugam Bay, serves as a wake-up call. Credible intelligence has led to
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Throughout history, the line between war and politics has often been blurred, encapsulated best in Clausewitz’s famous dictum, “War is merely the continuation of politics by other means.” This idea, central to
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“Middle East Spectator,” is a pro-regime Telegram outlet based in Tehran, as all media channels based in Tehran are – by law. Last week, Middle East Spectator leaked two sensitive intelligence documents The
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I was visiting Japan’s defense HQ about a decade ago. The official I was to interview was very late and left me cooling my heels in his office. I kept walking about
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The prevailing cultural climate is indeed shaping perceptions of military service on a global scale. If China were to invade Australia today, the geopolitical and social ramifications would be profound. However, one
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When India first outlined the nuclear doctrine in a press release of the Cabinet Committee on Security of meeting chaired by the then Prime Minister Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee on January 04,
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With two major wars Ukraine and Israel-Iran-Lebanon-Gaza ongoing in the world – an exceptional occurrence since the Second World War when multiple theatres from Europe to North Africa, Middle East, Pacific and
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Former Director of the State Intelligence Service (SIS) and Senior Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Nilantha Jayawardena has fully settled the compensation arrears owed to the victims of the 2019 Easter Sunday attacks,
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On the 50th anniversary of the Pinochet regime’s first act of international terrorism, the National Security Archive is posting a compilation of documents, including CIA intelligence reports and a judicial confession of
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Click here to read the First Part of this series Lack of Popular Support Since the end of the civil war, a number of military and academic researchers have argued about what
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On September 25, 2024, a 50-year-old villager, Soyam Pandu, was thrashed to death by armed cadres of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) in Bhandarpadar village in the Bhejji area in Sukma
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