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Prime Minister Narendra Modi held wide-ranging discussions with Myanmar President U Min Aung Hlaing at Hyderabad House in New Delhi on Monday, 1 June 2026.The talks were part of the Myanmarese leader’s four-day visit to India from 30 May to 2 June. A key outcome of the meeting was Myanmar’s assurance that it would take “everything necessary” to clamp down on Indian insurgent groups operating from its territory, ensuring they no longer pose a threat to India’s security.Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri briefed the media following the meeting, stating that Prime Minister Modi directly raised the issue of cross-border insurgent activity.…

National Defense The U.S. military services have primarily worked independently to develop their individual pieces of the Defense Department’s Combined Joint All-Domain Command and Control… Source link

On May 27, 2026, Russia and the Taliban-led government in Afghanistan signed a military-technical cooperation agreement at a security forum outside Moscow, following talks between Russian Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu and the Afghan defence minister, Mullah Mohammad Yaqoob Mujahid. The specific terms were not made public, but the framework reportedly covers air defence equipment, including man-portable air-defence systems (MANPADS), along with ground hardware, training and maintenance support. Within days, Yaqoob gave the agreement a harder edge, suggesting that Afghanistan was now working to ensure Pakistan could not strike Afghan territory from the air again. Coming after a year of…

In an age of seemingly catastrophic disruptions to maritime trade, land-based routes are seeing renewed interest. Could one of the most iconic trade routes of all time be making a modern comeback?  For Central Asia, geography is both a blessing and a curse. The region has been, at various points in history, the center of the world or a geopolitical backwater. Until the rise of reliable long-distance maritime trade in the 15th century, what we now call Central Asia was smack-dab in the middle of the world’s most important trade networks. You’ve heard the term: The Silk Road. Now a…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Myanmar’s President U Min Aung Hlaing on Monday at Hyderabad House in New Delhi. The meeting was part of the latter’s ongoing state visit to India from 30 May to 2 June, undertaken at the invitation of Prime Minister Modi.This marks Min Aung Hlaing’s first official visit to India in his current capacity as President, and he is accompanied by a high-level delegation comprising Cabinet ministers, senior officials, and prominent business leaders.The bilateral engagement at Hyderabad House was preceded by a series of important interactions. On Sunday, National Security Advisor Ajit Doval called on President…

Global Defense N. The Space-Based Airborne Moving Target Indicator program matters because it could give U.S. and allied forces a more survivable way to monitor contested airspace without… Source link

A still from a recent Pakistan Air Force (PAF) promotional video showed what appears to be a planned “structural upgrade” of the service’s Saab 2000 Erieye airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) aircraft. The image was attributed to the National Aerospace Science & Technology Park (NASTP), the PAF’s in-house research-and-development bureau and emerging production entity. The still was not detailed enough to make out the specifics. That said, one could see signs of changes being planned at several points of the airframe, most notably the front fuselage. Taken at face value, the image suggests that NASTP is at least studying…

Hours after delivering the keynote at Asia’s premier security forum, Vietnam’s top leader, Communist Party of Vietnam General Secretary To Lam, stated in an interview that Vietnam “does not approach [its] relations with major powers through the prism of security.” For 13 years at the Shangri-La Dialogue (SLD), Hanoi has built its regional standing on a nontraditional security agenda that has steadily widened. That agenda began with Nguyen Tan Dung’s 2013 keynote at the SLD and reached its fullest expression in To Lam’s 2026 address.  Balancing between the United States and China has kept Vietnam safe, but it has offered…

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh hailed the Annual India-Australia Defence Ministers’ Dialogue in New Delhi, emphasising that since its inception last year, military ties between the two nations have deepened considerably.He made these remarks during the second round of the dialogue, co-chaired with Australian Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Richard Marles. Singh noted that the establishment of the annual ministerial dialogue has already led to an increase in defence engagements, with several promising milestones achieved since October 2025.Reflecting on the inaugural dialogue held in Australia in October 2025, Singh recalled the positive outcomes of that meeting and expressed gratitude to…

IntEngineering Inside America’s high-speed race to build game-changing weapons Source link