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“Peekaboo, I See You”: How India-Pakistan War Weaponized Misogyny — Nude Women, “Maal-e-Ghanimat” & War Patches

"War is men’s business," Hector tells his wife Andromache in Homer’s Iliad. Centuries later, in Aristophanes’ comedy Lysistrata (411 BC), an Athenian magistrate dismisses a...

₹8.8 Trillion Defense Economy by 2047: India’s Blueprint to Become a Global Military Power in 20 Years

By 2047, India aims to command a ₹8.8 trillion defense economy — six times its current size — and emerge as a true global...

How China Became the Real End-User of U.S. F-16 Tech — Not by Theft, But Institutionalized Access: OPED

Washington connects. Beijing learns. India is exposed. Before Beijing learns, Washington connects. Not in China. In Pakistan. In a hangar, a radar, a simulator, a...

Putin Pitches “World’s Best” Su-57 to India! Calls for Joint Production and Export of Fifth-Gen Sukhoi Jets

Russian President Vladimir Putin has renewed the Su-57 pitch to India, citing the former FGFA collaboration between the two allies and calling it the...

Washington’s Iran Strategy Pushes Pakistan to the Brink of Collapse: Islamabad Pays the Price of Strategic Dependence

By Vikas Bhardwaj, Ph.D As Washington's confrontation with Tehran chokes the arteries of global energy trade, Pakistan's economic hemorrhage reveals something far more troubling than...