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Tuesday, March 17, 2026
TopicStrategic autonomy

Topic: strategic autonomy

Modi’s three Iran blunders lead to one question—where’s strategic autonomy?

Three avoidable blunders in PM Modi's handling of the US-Israel attack on Iran have laid bare the hollowness of his claims to global leadership.

Joining Pax Silica is not all positives for India. We must guard strategic autonomy

India’s participation in Pax Silica is integral to preventing the alliance from looking like an elite group.

India can’t achieve strategic autonomy by chasing GDP stats. Break away from Western influence

GDP measures only the size of an economy. India’s economy must have more depth, more domestic industries, and faster income growth at the bottom, as China has achieved.

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Modi’s three Iran blunders lead to one question—where’s strategic autonomy?

Three avoidable blunders in PM Modi's handling of the US-Israel attack on Iran have laid bare the hollowness of his claims to global leadership.

Insuring vessels sailing through Hormuz now costs five times what it did in early days of Iran war

Insuring vessels to sail through the Strait of Hormuz is still possible, even if at a very high cost.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.