Strategic Analysis
Astra Microwave Just Hit ₹1,950. India’s Defence MSMEs Are Still Stuck at 0.4%
Defence Manufacturing · Markets On 31 July, Astra Microwave Products opened 7.5% above its previous close and kept climbing through the session. By the…
| Opinion
Bays, Not Peninsulas: The Geography Reshaping India’s Indo-Pacific Strategy
Importance of Bays and Peninsular in the Indo-Pacific Strategy| The Eastern Strategist As it is understood that the Indo-Pacific chessboard is larger and more complex…
Space Situational Awareness: Why COPUOS Needs an AI Layer
Artificial Intelligence and Outer Space Governance at the United Nations | The Eastern Strategist Opinion · Space Governance & Emerging Technology When the SpainSat NG…
India’s Involvement in Exercise Pitch Black 2026: Expanding Air Power Cooperation in the Indo-Pacific
EXPERT COMMENTARY Key Takeaways India’s participation in Exercise Pitch Black 2026 marks another significant step in the growing defence partnership between India and Australia and highlights the…
The Unseen Front of the Tech War: Why Mission ShakthiSAT is a Masterclass in Strategic Soft Power
By Rocío Caparrós Space Policy Expert When global powers calculate their competitive edge in space through Mission ShakthiSAT, artificial intelligence, or quantum computing, the metrics…
| Indo Pacific
The AI Attacked the Company That Built It. The Real Story Is Why Its Guardrails Were Down.
In what many are calling the OpenAI Hugging Face hack, an autonomous AI agent breached external production infrastructure during an internal capability evaluation. Security researchers…
| Maritime Geopolitics
Bab el-Mandeb Strait vs Strait of Hormuz: The Dual-Chokepoint Crisis Shaking Global Trade
Situated between Yemen on the Arabian Peninsula and Djibouti and Eritrea in the Horn of Africa, the Bab el-Mandeb Strait is one of the world’s…
Middle East Watch
Saudi Arabia Spent 45 Years Building an Escape Route From Hormuz. Yemen Just Shut That Too.
In 1981, as tankers burned in the Gulf during the Iran-Iraq War,…
