Operation Sindoor: India Sheds Restraint, Rediscovers Utility of Force

“Operation Sindoor,” by any reckoning, has been an overwhelming strategic-military success. Its most significant outcome has been that India has re-discovered the utility of force. To understand the import of the significant transition, we need to hark back to the decades of ‘strategic restraint[i]:’ the hallmark of our statecraft for a while, particularly against acts […]
IAF and Operation Sindoor: A New Paradigm in Warfare

The heinous terror act on April 22, 2025, at Pahalgam that resulted in the killing of 26 innocent tourists based upon their religious identity, right in front of their families, brought India-Pakistan relations to an unforeseen new abyss. Intelligence reports pointed towards the Pakistan Army and the ISI once again, to either being in the […]