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China's Cyber Warfare Capabilities
By: Col Mandeep Singh |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 July 2020
On 23 May 2017, an Indian Air Force Sukhoi 30 fighter aircraft was downed, purportedly by a cyber-attack from China. This was just one more incident in the series of cyber incidents against...
China's Expansionism – A Strategic Perspective
By: Lt Col Yoginder Kandhari |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 July 2020
China has been pursuing expansionist designs for a long time now. Being a communist country, analysts believe expansionism is crucial to its ideology. To support their view, they cite the instance...
Will Galwan become nemesis of Xi Jinping
By: Brig Anil Gupta |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 July 2020
Xi Jinping’s ambition to make China an undisputed global superpower has changed the entire geo-political dynamics. The phenomenal rise to power of Xi Jinping has made China more belligerent and...
North Korea could be responsible for the corona war
By: Debojit Acharjee |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 July 2020
COVID-19 – is it a natural pandemic or a biological war? Some people believe that corona virus of COVID-19 known as SARS-CoV-2 has caused the pandemic naturally like the SARS or MERS but some...
Crimson Tide Sweeps Nepal
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 July 2020
The recent turn in India-China relations and events in Nepal surprised many but not those who know that China plans 50 years ahead and kept track of developments – joining the dots as they...
Responding to the Chinese Game Plan
By: Brig Deepak Sinha |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 July 2020
News reports now suggest that Pakistan has reportedly moved two army divisions up into Gilgit-Baltistan region opposite Kargil. Clearly some elements within our security establishment must see...
The Chinese View: China’s Long Range Missiles not Threatened by Indian Air...
By: Hemant Adlakha |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 July 2020
The article is presenting what the Chinese are writings in their Media (The article in Chinese appeared on kunlunce.com website on July 4,...
The Ball is in China’s Court
By: Brig Anil Gupta |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 July 2020
The third Corps Commander level talks held on the Indian side at Chuhsul to resolve border standoff have also ended without yielding any tangible result. Though nothing substantial was expected at...
The Dragon’s Design: Info War on Indo-China Clash
By: Air Marshal Harish Masand |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 July 2020
The tragic events at Galwan River Valley on the night of June 15th resulting in the loss of 20 Indian brave hearts, with perhaps an equal or number of casualties on the Chinese side, have once...
What S-400 will bring to the Indian Ground-Based Air Defence Capability?
By: Lt Gen VK Saxena |Issue: Vol. 31.1 Jan-Mar 2016 | Date: 03 July 2020
Good strides of progress, cutting across Service boundaries have taken place in automating the erstwhile manual/semi-automatic Control and Reporting (C&R) Nodes that exercise tactical, operational...
China has no claim on Tibet and East Turkestan, what to talk of Ladakh
By: Col Jaibans Singh |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 July 2020
The history of South Asia and China was dominated by the British broadly from the 17th century to mid-20th century. Today, almost seven decades after the exit of the British, India and China...
China’s INEW and the Sleepy Elephant
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 July 2020
Following the news of some 40,000 cyber attacks in a week by China, an interesting discussion on TV had a former additional secretary R&AW say that China became serious with cyber warfare when it...
The Chinese View
By: Hemant Adlakha |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 July 2020
The article is presenting what the Chinese are writings in their Media [寸土不让！解放军六天建成拉达克前线基地，印军看不到的危险正在积聚？] Won’t let an inch of...
Military Spending – Getting Bang for the Buck
By: Lt Gen NS Brar |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 June 2020
A nation maintains its military as an instrument of national power and means of safeguarding national interests. Military capabilities in turn mean expenditure. Universally countries spend in...
Imran Khan’s ‘Reverse Swing’ on Osama bin Laden’s Death
By: Nilesh Kunwar |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 June 2020
Since an occasional slip of the tongue is unavoidable, such inadvertent mistakes don’t usually stir up a controversy as long the mistake is corrected immediately. But rather than clearing the...
Tibet ‘slips out’ of India’s hands; it’s advantage China on the border
By: KS Dakshina Murthy |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 June 2020
The border clashes between India and China, that has cost the lives of troops on both sides, is a pointer to the larger seesaw power game between the two countries for over six decades now. It...
Chinese Experts on Galwan: "Indian Army’s poor military sense makes it...
By: Hemant Adlakha |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 June 2020
The article is presenting what the Chinese are writing about India and the Indian Army in their Chinese Media. The Economist, in its May 28th issue carried a story on China’s Wolf Warrior...
The Concept of Whole Situation and China’s Strategic Decision Making
By: Dr Sundaram Rajasimman |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 June 2020
To be attacked by the Enemy is not a bad Thing but a good thing! — Mao Zedong 26 May, 1939 Introduction: Is it Land? Despite all the noise made over the Indian media, the fact that – India’s...
Expediting Negotiation in Defence Contracts
By: Amit Cowshish |Issue: Courtesy: IDSA | Date: 26 June 2020
Commercial negotiations are virtually the last stage in the long-drawn capital procurement process. Negotiations are conducted with the lowest bidder or L1 by a Contract Negotiation Committee...
Deescalating Eastern Ladakh – China may not abide
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 June 2020
It was heartening to know that after the marathon 12-hours India-China talks at Moldo on June 22, both sides have agreed to deescalate from the confrontation in Eastern Ladakh. The Indian...