The Indian Army activates four Integrated Battle Groups on July 1, replacing the Cold War division-based structure with leaner combined-arms formations designed for rapid offensive action across the Himalayan and western fronts, in what the Ministry of Defence calls the largest structural reform since 1947
The 3,488-km disputed frontier between India and China, undemarcated since 1962, that shapes South Asian security, Indo-Pacific alignment, and the military posture of the world's two most populous nations.
full dossier ›Eight disputes, from the Taiwan Strait to Serbia-Kosovo, where formal hostilities ended but peace did not, generating the world's most acute escalation risks.
India's Prime Minister since May 2014, Modi is the dominant figure in Indian politics and the architect of India's shift from strategic non-alignment to assertive great-power competition, now governing in a coalition third term after a decade of majority mandates.
The SCO is a Eurasian intergovernmental bloc of ten nations anchored by China and Russia, covering roughly 40 percent of the world's population and operating a counter-terrorism coordination structure.
28,964 Myanmar refugees registered in Mizoram by June 4, Naga insurgents killed three Assam Rifles in March, NIA arrested foreign mercenaries linked to Myanmar networks, and AFSPA rollback by 2027 - India's Northeast is the most complex security quadrant on its map
Jaishankar, Rubio, Wong and Motegi unveiled the IPMSC on May 26, an India-proposed real-time satellite tracking system for vessels in the Indian Ocean, the most operationally specific initiative the Quad has produced
INMSS-2026, the INS Varsha nuclear-submarine base and Rs 150 billion of Andaman infrastructure mark India's pivot from a continental army to a blue-water IOR guardian, as Chinese survey vessels and dual-use ports close in on both flanks