Articles By Ashok Kapur
Aftermath of the 1962 War
By: Ashok Kapur | Issue: Book Excerpts: India's Strategic Problems | Date: 13 Nov , 2015
India’s humiliating defeat was a game changer in three significant ways. 1. It revealed the serious flaws in Nehru’s approach to China and defence, and it revealed the institutional defects...
Centres of Gravity of Indian Strategic Actions
By: Ashok Kapur | Issue: Book Excerpts: India's Strategic Problems | Date: 31 Oct , 2015
By expanding its strategic footprint in Asia, and through this avenue in the world, Indian practitioners could dilute the ill-effects of past policies of China and America vis-à-vis India and...
India’s Geostrategic Problems and Opportunities in the 21st Century
By: Ashok Kapur | Issue: Book Excerpts: India's Strategic Problems | Date: 26 Oct , 2015
India’s strategic problems took shape in past centuries and Indian history reveals two recurring patterns. First, foreign powers will not leave India alone and they have the tools to keep...
China-US- North Korea: The Dynamics of a Strategic Triangle
By: Ashok Kapur | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 31 Aug , 2013
China has developed a double policy in relation to North Korea. Its primary interest was and remains to maintain North Korea as a strategic buffer against the extension of American commercial,...
China's Destructive Policies
By: Ashok Kapur | Issue: Book Excerpt: Rising India | Date: 11 Apr , 2011
Three great powers –the USA, the USSR and PRC – have interfered on an extended basis in Indian foreign and military affairs since India gained independence. Combined with the harm done to...