Category: Opinion
The Gap That Widened
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 Flood Was the Plan
The Flood Was the Plan – 2026 How a single day in October 2023 exposed three decades of strategic delusion and why the world built after it cannot resemble the world before. By Meer Yassir Ahmed There is a moment in every genuinely historical event when you can see, if you are willing…
Beijing’s Windfall
Beijing’s Windfall – 2026 How America’s war in Iran handed China the strategic opening it could not have engineered itself By Yassir Ahmed Every great power miscalculation produces a beneficiary. The question historians ask is not only who lost, but who gained quietly, methodically, without firing a single shot. Washington is eight weeks into a…