Calibrating Power. Interpreting Strategy

Consensus Amid a Polarised BRICS: A Diplomatic Breakthrough for India

Saurabh Sharma

Independent Researcher

Ending the War in Ukraine: Prospective Challenges and Nuclear Issues

Dr. Stephen J. Cimbala

Distinguished Professor

9/11 at 25: Lessons Learned, Lessons Forgotten

Editorial

The Challenges of National Security Intelligence: An Encapsulation

National Security Intelligence assists governments in gathering, processing and analysing intelligence on threats and opportunities, but each step of the intelligence cycle — planning, collection, processing, analysis and dissemination — carries its own risk of failure, from data overload to the politicisation of findings. Drawing on episodes such as Operation CHAOS, Iran-Contra, 9/11 and the Iraq WMD assessment, this Strategic Insight argues that robust oversight is essential to guard against the abuse of intelligence powers even as it acknowledges the inherent limits of what intelligence can achieve.

Dr. Loch K. Johnson

Regents Professor Emeritus of Public and International Affairs

India Acts North: Centrality of Central Asia in India’s Eurasian Ambitions

Dr. Raj Kumar Sharma

Associate Professor

The Battle for Perception: China’s Psychological Influence in Myanmar and its Implications for India

China’s growing influence in Myanmar is not only confined to infrastructure, trade and diplomacy. It increasingly involves the information and cognitive dimensions of strategic competition, through which Beijing seeks to shape perceptions, narratives and decision-making environments. Chinese strategic thinking incorporates psychological warfare, public opinion warfare and legal warfare under the broader frameworks of the “Three Warfares”, while more recently we can witness Chinese military thinking has expanded beyond the horizons of cognitive domain operations.

Manashi Parashar

Research Scholar