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The Liancourt Rocks, known to Koreans as Dokdo, and to Japanese as Takeshima, are a pair of lonely, wind-swept volcanic islets in the waters between the Korean Peninsula and Japan. For decades, the territorial dispute between Seoul and Tokyo over these rocks played out through official statements and government posturing. But for South Koreans, Dokdo has never been just territory. It is a potent symbol of national liberation and the final clearing of the shadow cast by the Japanese colonial occupation (1910–1945). And today, that symbolism is no longer confined to state narratives – it is spreading across algorithmic feeds…

India’s Chandrayaan‑3 mission has been awarded the prestigious 2026 American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Goddard Astronautics Award in Washington DC, recognising its historic soft landing near the Moon’s south pole and its vital contributions to future lunar exploration.The honour underscores India’s growing stature in global space science and highlights deepening India‑US collaboration in astronautics.India’s Chandrayaan‑3 lunar mission has been formally recognised with the 2026 Goddard Astronautics Award, the highest distinction conferred by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA).The award ceremony took place on 21 May at the AIAA ASCEND 2026 Conference in Washington DC. India’s Ambassador…

Schogol, T&P The Scorpion Light 81mm mobile mortar system allows crews to digitally enter data needed to hit targets and automatically moves the tube into firing position. Source link

For years, Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated (IUU) fishing has been treated primarily as an environmental and economic threat. Governments framed it as a problem of depleted fish stocks, lost state revenue, and maritime resource theft. Yet a far more dangerous transformation is unfolding across the Indo-Pacific’s vast maritime spaces. Increasingly, the same networks involved in illegal fishing are becoming logistical arteries for transnational drug trafficking. Fishing vessels operating in poorly governed waters are now being used to transport methamphetamine, cocaine, heroin, ketamine, and precursor chemicals across international boundaries. The convergence between fisheries crime and narcotics trafficking is reshaping the political…

Union Home Minister Amit Shah has announced that the government will launch a “smart border” project within the next year to secure the 6,000‑kilometre stretch along the Pakistan and Bangladesh borders.He emphasised that the initiative aims to make these frontiers impenetrable and ensure that attempts to alter the demographic composition of the region are thwarted.The announcement was made during the annual Rustamji Memorial lecture hosted by the Border Security Force in New Delhi, commemorating K F Rustamji, the first director general of the BSF after its establishment in 1965.Shah assured BSF personnel that the project would be launched in the…

Erfan Fard, RealClearDefense How Tehran’s Reliance on Terror Proxies, Geopolitical Extortion, Internal Repression, and Dependence on China and Russia Reveals a Regime in Structural… Source link

WASHINGTON — The Navy has selected seven submissions in the medium unmanned surface vessel (MUSV) marketplace to move forward into the prototype evaluation phase, according to the service.  The MUSV marketplace launched in March, and more than two dozen designs were submitted, Navy spokesman Capt. Ron Flanders said.  Flanders did not provide a list of companies whose designs were selected to advance, but said that an announcement was expected within the next few days. At least one firm, Saildrone, revealed at the Sea Air Space Exposition that they submitted a proposal before the first iteration of the marketplace closed in…

This is the concluding installment of a four-part series on “The First Airtight Empire.” Part I documented the two slogan substitutions through which Beijing rewrote its history and prewrote its future. Part II described the three lockdowns that conditioned the population to accept the airtight seal that followed. Part III mapped the four mechanical seals, the asymmetric one-way valve, and the 2,200-year social foundation through which the latest closure has been engineered. This installment places the configuration in its long historical frame, examines the three American policy assumptions the configuration invalidates, and offers the strategic recalibration that the closure now…

France and India have reinforced their defence collaboration with a high-level meeting at DRDO Headquarters on 20 May 2026, where advanced technology sharing and joint R&D were emphasised. This visit by France’s Delegate General for Armaments marks a significant step in deepening the strategic partnership, particularly in areas such as aerospace, AI, propulsion, and underwater systems.A French delegation led by Mr Patrick Pailloux, Delegate General for Armaments (DGA France), visited the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) Headquarters in New Delhi on 20 May 2026.The delegation held detailed discussions with Dr Samir V. Kamat, Secretary DDR&D and Chairman DRDO, focusing…

Emzar Gelashvili, RealClearDefense While both sides declared success, the real outcome was a carefully choreographed pause in strategic competition — bought with American leverage and… Source link