Threat from China

New Delhi’s portrayal of the humiliating defeat at the hands of Chinese in 1962  as ‘betrayal’ and ‘surprise’ is untrue. The pacifist Indian leadership that was crying hoarse from rooftops for friendship at any cost remained blind to Communist China’s repeated claims on Tibet and large part of Indian territories. Mao termed Tibet as the palm [...]

Norththrop Grumman in India

Globalization has become a mantra of the 21st Century economic model, and high technology has become one of the vehicles for its implementation, particularly in the defence sector.  Fewer and fewer complex military systems are being developed only to fill national requirements because their development is simply too costly to justify production in limited quantities. [...]

Himalayan Rivers: Geopolitics and Strategic Perspectives

On October 7, 1950 the PLA’s Second Field Army marched into Eastern Tibet to ‘liberate’ the Roof of the World. Several factors can explain this move.A few days after the beginning of the invasion, the Xinhua News Agency issued a communiqué that the PLA would soon achieve “the task of marching into Tibet to liberate [...]

Ahmedinejad’s Visit

In response to an invitation issued by President Mahinda Rajapaksa of Sri Lanka during his visit  to Teheran in November, 2007, President Mahmud Ahmadinejad of Iran paid a two-day official visit to Sri Lanka on April 28 and 29, 2008.
Since last year, Sri Lanka has been facing  economic difficulties due to the drying-up of economic [...]

India Russia: Strategic Relations

The India-Russia strategic relations with its embedded military ties have been, in the past 15 years, buffeted by the turbulence of international upheavals and domestic events. The collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the cold war have quite dramatically altered the dynamics of this strategic relationship.

Indian Navy: Challenges Beyond The Horizon

The Currency of Power
In the mid-1980s many commentators predicted the end of the role of military force as the “currency of power”. Subsequent decades were however marked by global changes that significantly altered the distribution of international power. Radical shifts in the status of erstwhile subjugated states, the empowerment of newly developed and developing nations, [...]