Comments & Briefs

The Quad and the Critical Minerals Initiative

Strategic partnerships like the Quad Critical Minerals Initiative can play a crucial role in helping India secure access to critical minerals.

July 04, 2025

Ajey Lele

IDSA Comments

Hypersonic Weapons and Contemporary Conflicts

The use of hypersonic weapons in the Russia–Ukraine war and increasing relevance in the Middle East is reflective of a major paradigm shift in contemporary conflicts.

July 03, 2025

Amita

Issue Brief

Beyond Abstention: India, the Korean War Legacy and Contemporary Conflicts

India's astute diplomacy in the Korean War provides a powerful blueprint for engaging with today's tumultuous global landscape.

July 01, 2025

D. Padma Kumar Pillay

IDSA Comments

China’s Fighter Aircraft Development: A Brief History

China has made a consistent and gradual progress in research and development of fighter jets keeping the Soviet-designed fighter models as reference.

June 26, 2025

Abhishek Kumar Darbey

Backgrounder

How Vulnerable are Kinmen and Matsu Islands?

The probability of a standalone Chinese military action to seize Taiwan’s outlying islands—Kinmen and Matsu—is very low.

June 23, 2025

Prashant Kumar Singh

Special Feature

Trump’s Immigration Policies: An Assessment

President Donald Trump’s immigration policies are in the limelight, given the first full-scale protests against these policies that have erupted in Los Angeles.

June 23, 2025

Khyati Singh

IDSA Comments

DF-31AG Test and PLA Rocket Forces’ Nuclear Choices

The September 2024 DF-31AG test showed to some extent the success of the efforts aimed at the streamlining of the priorities of the Rocket Forces.

June 18, 2025

M.S. Prathibha

Issue Brief

Ethiopia’s Russian Gambit: A Solution or a Failing Strategy?

Ethiopia has reached out to Russia to strengthen defence ties amidst multiple internal conflicts.

June 18, 2025

Abhishek Mishra , Abyssinia Abay Mengistu

IDSA Comments

The Bibi–Sisi Rift: Threat to Camp David Accords

Multiple factors, including Egypt’s increasingly close ties with China, Russia and Turkiye, are threatening to derail the 1978 Camp David Accords.

June 13, 2025

Adil Rasheed

Issue Brief

South Korea Elects Lee Jae-myung as President: Challenges Ahead

Lee Jae-myung’s election as South Korea’s President has ended the period of political instability that began with the imposition of martial law in December 2024.

June 11, 2025

Prashant Kumar Singh

IDSA Comments