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US-Iran-Israel tangle: A historical analysis

28 Jun 2025

How intelligence “gaps” occur

03 May 2025

Houthi chat group is a strategic blunder

31 Mar 2025

The terror of pager bombs

27 Sep 2024

West Asia politics after Ebrahim Raisi

01 Jun 2024

Why is Iran hitting Erbil in Kurdistan so often?

27 Jan 2024

Reflections on the Gaza standoff

17 Oct 2023

Relections on the Gaza standoff

17 Oct 2023

October surprise: How Carter missed his 1981 re-election

30 Mar 2023

Lessons for India from soldier and farmer suicides in America

25 Feb 2023

Deglamourising the “master spies”

22 Jan 2023

Shinzo Abe: Lessons from half-a-century ago

17 Jul 2022

Getting to the root of the police-politician divide

03 May 2021

The Indians in Trump’s seditious war

15 Jan 2021

Understanding the Chinese border incursions

04 Jun 2020