View from the Bridge
A sea-level navigator's assessment of Hormuz, Kharg and the geometry of coercion: The lanes, the islands, the upstream node, and the illusion of space.
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Epic Fury and India’s Airpower Moment
Survivability, Coherence, Sovereignty
The Mine Warfare Gap
When the Sea Itself Becomes Unreliable
Consequence Management
Epic Fury, the Architecture India Has Yet to Build & The Price of Dependence
Part 2 - Ji-Huzoor in Uniform
Authority Gradients in India’s Military Institutions
PART 1 - The Grammar of Deference
Haan-ji, Ji-Huzoor, and the Semiotics of Power
Part II - The National Security Council
The Staff System Behind Epic Fury that Needs Closer Scrutiny
When a Gas Field Becomes a Food Crisis
South Pars, Air Power Doctrine, and the Blind Spot India Cannot Afford
Part I - The US NSA
Persona, Process, and the Road to Epic Fury
The Father, the Son, and the Narrow Seas
From Admiral Zumwalt’s Operation SEALORDS to Operation Epic Fury in the Persian Gulf
Part III – Theory of Victory and the Escalation Ladder
Theory of Victory, Escalation Ladders, and End States in the US–Israel–Iran War
From Mosul to Hormuz
General Dan Caine, Networked Speed, and the Blur Between Command and Advice
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Part II – Iran’s Sea Denial Strategies and the Strait of Hormuz
How Iran Uses the Sea to Challenge a Stronger Fleet
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Part I – The Security–Insecurity Paradox in the US–Israel–Iran War
Why Military Strategies Can Produce Spirals of Insecurity
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Series: Asymmetric Warfare in the Modern International System
Foreword: Asymmetric Warfare and the US–Israel–Iran Crisis
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Hormuz and the Financial Spine of Maritime Trade
How insurance, reinsurance and global risk capital can close vital sea lanes even before a shot is fired
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Part III - Using Theory to Read the Iran–Israel–US War
Certain additional frameworks to discipline judgement as Day 12 brings no respite in rhetoric, and no tankers cross the Strait of Hormuz.”
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Part II - Using Theory to Read the Iran–Israel–US War
Revisiting Theories on Day 10
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Part II - Naval Aviation and the Physics of the Deck
Rafale‑M, TEDBF and the future of manned–unmanned decks.
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Part I - Naval Aviation and the Physics of the Deck
How the Naval LCA became a necessary “planned failure”.
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IRIS Dena: A Sailor’s Epitaph
A frigate’s last watch, and the quiet remaking of Iran’s navy
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Multipolarity Is Not Enough: What Finland Quietly Reminds in Delhi
A Finnish president in New Delhi, a forgotten Winter War, and a Himalayan frontier still framed in terms of linear frontages rather than systems in depth.
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The Law of Neutrality
India’s Rights & Responsibilities
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The International Law of Military Operations, IRIS Dena and Self‑Defence at Sea
How a US submarine strike in the Indian Ocean tests Article 51, warship immunity and the limits of “anticipatory” self‑defence