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Why Afghanistan Matters in Global Geopolitics

By : Kumar Aryan, Research Analyst, GSDN Afghanistan occupies a geopolitical position that is disproportionate to the size of its economy. Landlocked between South Asia,...

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The Oil That Washington Wants New Delhi to Give Up — and Why It Shouldn’t

By: Khushbu Ahlawat, Consulting Editor, GSDN Introduction A law named after a senator who did not live to see it pass now threatens India with a...

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Cognitive Debt: What Happens to the Human Mind When Machines Do the Thinking

By: Khushbu Ahlawat, Consulting Editor, GSDN Introduction A small, unreviewed MIT study on ChatGPT and essay-writing has become a flashpoint for a much larger question: as...

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Robots, Not Just Rifles: What Russia’s Drone Corps Teaches India’s Battle Groups

By: Khushbu Ahlawat, Consulting Editor, GSDN As the Indian Army builds Integrated Battle Groups meant to fight and win fast, two-front wars, the Rubicon Centre's...

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A Line on the Map, a Home on Both Sides: India’s Unfinished Boundary with Myanmar

By: Khushbu Ahlawat, Consulting Editor, GSDN Introduction As New Delhi accelerates fencing and quietly explores a small territorial exchange in Manipur, the real test is whether...

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Seeing Is Not Enough: Why the Indian Ocean Needs Collective Attribution for Grey-Zone Threats

By: Khushbu Ahlawat, Consulting Editor, GSDN Introduction Regional states have built an impressive surveillance grid over the past decade. The harder question is what to do...

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Turning the Carbon Squeeze into a Springboard: India’s CBAM Dilemma After the EU Trade Deal

By: Khushbu Ahlawat, Consulting Editor, GSDN A landmark free trade agreement with Brussels has opened Europe's markets to Indian exporters just as a new carbon...

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Engines, Drones and Data: Inside India’s Defence Indigenisation Push in a Fast-Changing Battlespace

By: Khushbu Ahlawat, Consulting Editor, GSDN Introduction From a stealth fighter's missing engine to a jet-powered kamikaze drone's first flight, September 2026 offered a compact snapshot...

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The SCO at 25: A Bloc Building Institutions Faster Than It Builds Consensus

By: Khushbu Ahlawat, Consulting Editor, GSDN As the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation marks a quarter-century, its expanding security architecture and connectivity ambitions sit uneasily alongside an...

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How Iran has Checkmated Saudi Arabia through the Houthis

By : Sonalika Singh, Consulting Editor, GSDN Iran’s strategy toward Saudi Arabia illustrates how a state with inferior conventional military capabilities can impose substantial strategic...

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Beyond the Handshake: Why Sequencing, Not Sentiment, Will Decide the India-China Reset

By: Khushbu Ahlawat, Consulting Editor, GSDN A cautious embrace at the BRICS table conceals a deeper disagreement over what comes first — border stability or...

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Three Deterrents, One Kingdom: What the Saudi Nuclear Deal Really Reveals About a Post-American Gulf

By: Khushbu Ahlawat, Consulting Editor, GSDN Introduction The US-Saudi civil nuclear agreement signed on 22 July 2026 has been described, accurately, as a landmark: a 30-year...

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