Lessons from the Ladakh crisis
The 2020 India-China LAC crisis in Ladakh is arguably New Delhi’s “biggest strategic and security challenge in decades.” 20 Indian soldiers were killed by PLA forces wielding iron rods, clubs wrapped in barbed…
Surface Tension: The Need for Risk Reduction Among Emerging Naval Nuclear Forces in South Asia
…for its biggest naval exercise amid ocean engagements,” Hindu, December 1, 2023, https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/navy-gears-up-for-its-largest-multilateral-exercise-amid-high-tempo-of-engagements-in-ior/article67591954.ece 21 United States Navy Press Release, “United States Indo-Pacific Command,” March 21, 2024, https://www.pacom.mil/Media/News/News-Article-View/Article/3714876/us-india-launch-exercise-tiger-triumph-2024/ 22 Prior to…
TRANSCRIPT – South Asia 2025: A Year of Shocks and Shifts
…Pakistan in decades, when the two nuclear armed adversaries tested the limits of conventional fighting under the nuclear umbrella and drove U.S. diplomatic intervention to secure a ceasefire. Washington’s relationship with New…
Parallel Crises
…Washington and other capitals were transfixed by the Cuban missile crisis, a border war occurred between China and India, much to New Delhi’s surprise. Chinese troops repulsed forward-deployed Indian forces…
After the Fall: Amid the Greenland Crisis, Putting the Liberal Order Together Again
…the widening faultlines. Hopefully, the new order won’t have to come as the result of a major state-on-state conflict of the type which has historically brought about a new hegemon….
Crisis in Syria Nears Breaking Point
…Syria teetering on the abyss of all-out civil war, the Syrian crisis has reached a make-or-break moment for a diplomatic resolution. Increasingly, it appears that the 16-month long uprising is…
The Central African Republic Is Still in Crisis. Can UN Peacekeepers Help?
…saved lives during the September crisis. But that crisis highlighted the limits of what can be achieved by U.N. peacekeepers in the absence of functioning state and civil society institutions…
TRANSCRIPT – Ground Forces and Great Powers: A Conversation with U.S. Army Secretary Christine Wormuth
…battalion in the next few years. In addition to growing some new air defense capabilities, we’re growing something called the indirect fire protection capability, so there will be several new…