Why Washington Went to Mumbai: Oil, Capital and the New Geography of Indian Diplomacy. Diplomats say that where a statesman chooses to land tells you what he has come to buy. When US Secretary of State Marco Rubio touched down in Mumbai on October 20, the first Secretary of State to visit India without a…
The Question Israel Is Asking, and the One It Is Not – 2026 Three years after October 7, Israel’s election is asking whether Netanyahu was warned. It is not asking what the war has since cost, and what that silence says about how democracies hold themselves to account. By Meer Yassir Ahmed yassirahmed001@gmail.com https://yassirahmed.substack.com/p/the-question-israel-is-asking-and?r=b3qn1&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true…
The Mirror Cracks – 2026 Owen Jones is right that the West destroyed itself through hubris — but the more uncomfortable truth, legible from Delhi or Ramallah or Nairobi but invisible from Washington, is that the policies Jones identifies as the cause of Western decline were first field-tested on the Global South; what we are…
Fortress and the Mirage of Invincibility – 2026 Israel’s tactical brilliance since October 7 is being mistaken for strategic permanence — and that confusion, not any external enemy, is the more dangerous adversary. By Meer Yassir Ahmed yassirahmed001@gmail.com When, not if, the current round of fighting subsides, Israel will be tempted to read…
Quiet Without Consent – 2026 Jammu and Kashmir has had long stretches of calm. It has rarely had a peace that survives the withdrawal of coercion and until policy stops confusing the two, it will keep misdiagnosing the region it is trying to govern Jammu and Kashmir has not lacked for quiet. Long stretches…
Inside the Erosion of India’s Human Security Grid SERIES OF AN ONGOING INVESTIGATION Part I When the Ear Goes Deaf: Intelligence, Trust, and the Slow Unravelling of Kashmir’s Security Architecture – 2026 Jammu and Kashmir’s security grid has never been more technologically advanced or more humanly blind. The erosion of intelligence built on trust,…
The Gap That Widened – 2026 Operation Sindoor proved India can strike. One year on, it has not proven it can convert a strike into strategy. Operation Sindoor proved India can strike. One year on, it has not proven it can convert a strike into a strategy. By Meer Yassir Ahmed There is a particular…
The Army Without Borders: Iran’s Sixty Groups and the New Shape of War – 2026 When missiles fell on Tehran, Iran did not merely retaliate with missiles in return. It unleashed something far more patient, more pervasive, and arguably more consequential a distributed digital insurgency that has since metastasised into one of the most sophisticated…
