India, Jan. 11 -- The humid night of January 3, 2026, witnessed Caracas skyline not dissolving into chaos amidst fighter jets or falling bombs; it simply vanished. At precisely 2:00 AM, the Venezuelan capital's southern districts plunged into an abyssal darkness. One minute later, at 2:01 AM, US special operations helicopters touched down at Fort Tiuna to execute Nicolas Maduro's extraction. When backup generators sputtered to life and confusion cleared, the operation concluded with surgical precision.

For New Delhi's strategic community, this sixty-second gap between cyber-induced blackout and kinetic boots-on-ground-should terrify more than any nuclear test or naval exercise. It signifies the definitive arrival of a new doctrine where ...