Australia has launched the 11th edition of Exercise Talisman Sabre, its largest-ever military exercise. More than 35,000 personnel from 19 countries have gathered to train over three weeks in coordinated operations. This includes the Quad nations—India, the US, Japan, and Australia—along with

India has long championed a foreign policy rooted in strategic autonomy—an approach that prioritizes sovereignty, non-alignment, and independent decision-making over formal alliances or geopolitical bloc politics. This doctrine, deeply rooted in India’s post-colonial identity and Cold War experience, has earned the country a reputation as a responsible power, reluctant to