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Land warfare and territorial conquest are increasingly being treated as irrelevant or of little consequence by prominent strategic and military experts.
This brief argues that while modern warfare has made territorial conquest harder, it has not made it irrelevant, with the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East underscoring why geography, strategic depth, and control of land still matter.
For India, this means force planning must balance technological superiority and precision with the mass, endurance, and territorial control needed to prevail on land: https://www.orfonline.org/expert-speak/the-territory-question-why-geography-still-matters-in-modern-war
Over 96% of South Africa's imports and exports move by sea transportation.
With a coastline of about 2,800 kilometres, the country is a gateway to many landlocked Southern African nations.
Southern African Development Community (SADC) committees found that only 25% of transport delays occur due to physical infrastructure problems, while 75% stem from poor facilitation of existing infrastructure.
This brief argues that Ports may be the gateway to global trade, but South Africa’s economic reach depends on the corridors that connect them to inland and regional markets: https://www.orfonline.org/expert-speak/from-port-to-market-strengthening-south-africa-s-hinterland-connectivity
Five years after the Taliban returned to Kabul, Afghanistan presents a paradox that is increasingly difficult for the international community to ignore.
Afghanistan today is more internally secure but, the absence of war cannot be equated with the presence of effective governance.
This brief argues that Afghanistan is neither the isolated Emirate of the 1990s nor the internationally supported republic that preceded it. It is a more secure but more repressive state, economically constrained, yet increasingly connected to its region: https://www.orfonline.org/research/the-taliban-takeover-consolidation-repression-and-the-new-regional-equation
The cloud may seem weightless and virtual, but behind every algorithm lies a physical infrastructure with a very earthly thirst: water.
India already had around 271 operational data centres at the start of 2026, with projected growth to be 77% by 2027. This growth curve, however, also runs into a hard resource constraint: freshwater, particularly in urban regions where this infrastructure is concentrated.
The brief argues that the objective should not be slower digital growth, but a model of digital infrastructure in which water, energy and climate resilience are integral to India's technological ambitions:
https://www.orfonline.org/expert-speak/the-cloud-runs-on-water
Keiko Fujimori finally took the oath as Peru's president with a narrow victory, after 15 years of campaigning and failing to be elected in 2011, 2016 and 2021.
This brief explains that the sheer labelling of right-wing victories as conservative or 'blue waves', and previous left-wing victories as the 'pink tide', is a shallow way of understanding democracy in Latin America.
The larger point being that both the right and left have become prominent political forces in the region, alternating in popularity and power: https://www.orfonline.org/expert-speak/can-peru-s-new-political-order-deliver-stability
Africa’s economic crisis is neither universal nor permanent. While debt, volatility, and political uncertainty are weakening several economies, others are building the industrial capacity, infrastructure, and financial tools needed to withstand the next shock.
This brief explains why this shift towards domestic value addition creates an opportunity for India to build partnerships that align with Africa’s own industrial ambitions: https://www.orfonline.org/expert-speak/why-africa-s-economic-resilience-matters-for-india
As open-weight AI models close the gap with proprietary ones, capability itself is becoming a commodity.
This brief explains why India's real opportunity lies in applying, securing, and deploying AI models, not building them as convergence among open-weight models shifts value away from the base model itself: https://www.orfonline.org/expert-speak/open-weight-ai-shifting-the-frontier-in-india-s-favour
No Integrated Air Defence System (IADS) is, or has ever been, 100% impenetrable.
The true measure of an air defence system is not whether every incoming threat is destroyed, but whether sufficient combat power survives to enable continued operations.
This brief explains why the future measure of IADS effectiveness will lie not only in the number of fighters, radars or missile systems a nation possesses, but in how intelligently, rapidly and economically it employs them across successive waves of diverse threats: https://www.orfonline.org/expert-speak/integrated-air-defence-preserving-combat-power-in-modern-warfare
For island communities, the ocean is the hinterland.
A delayed vessel can interrupt access to food, medicine and other essentials, making reliable connectivity a domestic necessity rather than an infrastructure question alone.
This brief argues that for India, recognising the ocean as the hinterland is an opportunity to connect its continental economy, island territories and regional leadership within a single maritime vision: https://www.orfonline.org/expert-speak/the-ocean-as-hinterland-a-new-lens-for-island-connectivity
For India to undergo a meaningful structural transformation, states like Tamil Nadu and Gujarat must evolve into manufacturing powerhouses on the scale of Vietnam or Malaysia.
Over the decades, state governments have institutionalised foreign outreach, directed mostly at attracting foreign direct investment and technology — yet there is one crucial import that has been overlooked.
This brief argues that India's next strategic import should be institutional capability, with state governments sending delegations to Taiwan, South Korea, and Japan to understand how effective developmental bureaucracies are built and sustained: https://www.orfonline.org/expert-speak/the-missing-piece-in-india-s-economic-diplomacy
India's median age is around 28 years, compared with around 40 years in China, highlighting the widening demographic contrast between Asia's two largest economies.
This brief argues that as India's demographic weight grows, its ability to convert that advantage into skills, innovation, and economic power will shape both its own trajectory and the future balance of power in the Indo-Pacific: https://www.orfonline.org/expert-speak/india-s-demographic-moment-shaping-the-indo-pacific-s-future-balance-of-power
Iran's grip over the Strait of Hormuz has weakened in recent weeks, but it would be premature to interpret this as a decisive loss of control.
What has changed is not Iran's ability to threaten the strait, but its ability to dictate the terms under which all traffic moves through it.
This brief argues that the central question is not whether Iran controls Hormuz — it is what kind of control it can exercise: https://www.orfonline.org/research/the-strait-of-hormuz-and-the-limits-of-iranian-power
In April 2025, gunmen affiliated with The Resistance Front, a Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) offshoot, singled out tourists by religious identity, killing 26 people near Pahalgam in Jammu and Kashmir.
Within weeks of the attack, Trump hosted Pakistan's army chief, Field Marshal Asim Munir.
This brief questions whether Washington can be trusted when it matters most, and argues that the lesson New Delhi appears to be drawing is not that the US is wholly unreliable, but that its reliability as a partner is transactional, personality-driven, and geographically selective: https://www.orfonline.org/expert-speak/pakistan-s-rehabilitation-in-washington-a-test-for-india-us-ties
India does not yet figure among the top global innovators or manufacturers in critical technologies such as semiconductors, AI, quantum technology, or clean-energy technologies.
Yet, the country possesses about 20% of the global semiconductor design talent, majority of this talent being recruited by multinationals.
This brief argues that the Indian R&D ecosystem requires a cultural shift. Instead of prioritising technology acquisition, the country must emphasise the recognition and recruitment of talent: https://www.orfonline.org/expert-speak/why-india-must-invest-in-talent-over-technology
The Pentagon launched a six-month review of American forces on the European continent, with the most consequential reassessment of its military posture in Europe in decades.
Currently, Washington maintains roughly 80,000 military and civilian personnel in Europe, down from the 100,000 present after Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
This brief argues that it would be a grave mistake for European leaders to adopt a "wait it out" strategy, hoping that whoever is in the White House next may reverse course: https://www.orfonline.org/expert-speak/us-troop-withdrawal-from-europe-a-blessing-in-disguise
Recently, when the United States and Japan undertook a joint market intervention to prop up the value of a rapidly sliding Japanese Yen, it raised eyebrows across the board — such joint interventions are quite uncommon, especially during a non-crisis.
Yields on the 10- and 30-year US bonds have shot up since the Iran war, with the 30-year rising from 1.3% to 5.2% since early 2020.
This brief argues that China doesn't have to tank the US bond market, just hike it up a little bit to make Washington concede on a given day: https://www.orfonline.org/research/china-risk-returns-in-american-bond-markets
Over the last year, a grave limitation of India's fighter jet programme has come to the fore: the lack of jet engines
Despite the tripling of orders for fighter jets, the growing number of submarines being built, and the development of a fifth-generation fighter, the country's sole domestic producer of titanium sponge — has been producing the same amount of titanium every year since 2011.
This brief argues that what India needs to close the titanium gap is the same fix it eventually applied to the Tejas engine problem: a named owner, a public timeline, and a supply chain that is monitored, not assumed: https://www.orfonline.org/expert-speak/the-titanium-bottleneck-that-could-stall-india-s-fighter-jet-and-submarine-plans
As Myanmar President Min Aung Hlaing arrived in Thailand on 6–7 August 2026, the significance of the visit extended well beyond the symbolism of a red-carpet welcome.
Thailand's formal commitment to the ASEAN Five-Point Consensus has not disappeared — but its practical policy has consistently reflected its particular geographical interests.
This brief argues that Thailand's growing engagement with Myanmar is helping restore ASEAN's access to Naypyidaw, but by accommodating Myanmar's terms of reintegration, Bangkok risks weakening the bloc's collective leverage: https://www.orfonline.org/expert-speak/thailand-s-myanmar-strategy-restoring-access-recalibrating-leverage
Around 7 in 10 smallholders say a lack of formal finance has limited their ability to invest in practices that build climate resilience.
Since 2019, Dvara E-Registry has run KhetScore, an alternate credit score that lets a lender assess farmers by what their land does rather than what they own.
Having lent ₹215 crore, roughly US$22 million, to more than 42,500 farmers, this brief explains how, through machine-learning models, land title can stop being the test — so that the person who farms can be the person who borrows: https://www.orfonline.org/expert-speak/global-ai-impact-commons-stories-khetscore
The Parliament has begun to dismantle the free-UPI regime through the Taxation and Other Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2026. While the Bill imposes no fee, it empowers the government to decide, by notification, which payment modes remain free of charge, specifying no rate, no threshold, and no exemption for small merchants or ordinary users.
The government has given assurances that only large merchants will be charged, which may be sincere but assurances are not guaranteed by law.
This brief argues that the terms of any charge should be fixed in law. A public good sustained for six years on the promise that it would cost nothing cannot now be priced on terms its users are asked to take on trust: https://www.orfonline.org/research/someone-has-to-pay-for-upi-how-do-we-decide-who
