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FCAS vs GCAP: After Mystère, Mirage & Rafale, Will India Stick with France or Pivot to UK-Japan for 6th-Gen Jets?

While developing its much-awaited fifth-generation aircraft, AMCA, India is also considering joining one of two European sixth-generation fighter programs. The Indian Ministry of Defence (MoD)...

India & China “Bypass” Iran’s Near-Blockade of Strait of Hormuz; Secure Exceptions as Oil Traffic Drops By 95%

Under fire from the United States and Israel, Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz to commercial traffic, choking the energy supply and sending energy...

Pakistan Joins Iran & North Korea as “Major Nuclear Threats” to U.S.; DNI Warns Its ICBMs Could Reach USA

For the last two decades, the US has faced a strategic dilemma with Pakistan. During its two-decade-long war in Afghanistan (2001-2021), Washington could never determine...

Iran Overshadows It — But Will U.S. Get Sucked Back into Afghanistan as Pakistan-Taliban Clashes Escalate?

One war casts a long shadow over another. Forgotten in the shadow of the Iran War, the dangerous escalation in the Pakistan-Afghanistan war is...

“Cutting” Parts From India, Myanmar, B’Desh: Why Arrest of 7 Mercenaries Revives West’s 100-Year-Old Dream of Christian Nation in S.Asia

The arrest of seven foreigners, including six Ukrainians and one known US mercenary, Matthew VanDyke, for illegally crossing into Myanmar, supplying weapons, and providing...