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Command Post is a newsletter on strategic issues, including defence and diplomacy.
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Sushant Singh
Sushant Singh
Sushant Singh is a lecturer at Yale University. Previously, he was a senior fellow at the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, and deputy editor of The Indian Express. A winner of the prestigious Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Awards in 2017 and 2018, he had earlier served in the Indian Army for two decades. He is also the author of Mission Overseas and co-author of Note by Note: The India Story.
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Chaos
When it comes to lobbying in the US, Indian-Americans are not Jewish Americans
India tried to build an Israel-style lobby in Washington, DC. But money, race and ideology have kept Indian-Americans from becoming a political force.
Recent Editions
From Kathmandu's ashes: A blueprint for India's regional renaissance
Nepal's democratic uprising offers India a choice to either continue with its failed transactional diplomacy or embrace the patient institution-building that South Asia desperately needs.
12 Sept 2025
Modi’s Tianjin visit is a mirror of India’s domestic decline
These domestic failures—breeding economic inequality, tepid growth, poor research and development, low productivity and declining manufacturing—eventually constrain India's international leverage, forcing reactive diplomacy disguised as strategic autonomy.
05 Sept 2025
Why the world’s fourth-largest economy struggles to be heard
On its 79th Independence Day, a road map to reclaim India’s rightful place on the global stage.
14 Aug 2025
Will it? Will it not? An India-US trade deal has no easy pathways ahead
Whatever be the outcome, the India-US trade deal's impact on economic growth and sovereignty cannot be separated.
04 Jul 2025
Older Editions
With its Trump connection, Pakistan’s crypto pivot is a headache for India
Pakistan’s embrace of crypto—fuelled by Chinese energy, sanctioned by the state and linked to the Trump family—has opened a new front in South Asia’s battle for digital dominance.
06 Jun 2025
Chinese military tech breakthroughs in focus after Operation Sindoor
China’s tech performance in Pakistan’s war theatre calls for India to rethink its fragmented arsenal and future-proof its defence posture.
19 May 2025
The IMF loan to Pakistan and the limits of India’s leverage
After shouting in the void, the lesson for New Delhi is clear: if it wants influence at the IMF, it must build coalitions and economic heft
11 May 2025
Trump’s trade gambit leaves India at the crossroads of chaos
America’s tariff shock waves will reverberate across India’s economy, geopolitics and regional strategy.
03 Apr 2025
Trump’s White House drama with Zelenskyy creates strategic nightmare for India
US President Donald Trump’s showdown with visiting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy undermines global norms and weakens India’s strategic position against China.
01 Mar 2025