Defense Studies

In God’s own country, even Stealth Champions bow

By Ankit Jakhar and Priyansh Pandey When HMS Prince of Wales and its carrier strike group docked in Singapore for Operation High mast, it was missing one of its F-35 Lightning – numbered 34, which made an emergency landing at Thiruvananthapuram International Airport at approximately 9:30 PM IST on 14th June. According to sources, low …

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The Transformation of Military Intelligence Architecture:

From Battlefield to Intelligence Network: Evidence-Based Analysis of OSINT’s Causal Impact in the Russia-Ukraine Conflict By Habib Al-Badawi Introduction The democratization of intelligence through open-source platforms represents one of the most significant shifts in modern warfare since the advent of cyber operations, fundamentally reshaping how conflicts are understood, analyzed, and conducted (Brantly, 2021). As Hockenhull …

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Russia-Ukraine Conflict:

A Theoretical Analysis of Geopolitical Power Struggles, Sovereignty Assertions, and Security Paradigms By Professor Habib Al-Badawi The escalating conflagration between Russia and Ukraine, erupting into full-scale warfare in 2024, represents a seminal inflection point in the contemporary geopolitical landscape, ushering in tectonic shifts whose reverberations extend far beyond the immediate theater of military engagement. This …

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Unfolding Operation Vijay (1961): How India Got Back Goa

Introduction India got independent on 15th August 1947, but for the next 14 years a natural part of India, Goa, and the territories of Daman and Diu, were left under the colonial rule of a fading power vastly weaker than former rulers of mainland India, the Portuguese. They had conquered Goa from the Sultan of …

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