Articles By Bharat Verma
Prepare for the Next Great War
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Vol 24.2 Apr-Jun 2009 | Date: 30 Jun , 2014
Today, India is ringed by turbulent states – Pakistan (land boundary with India 3,310 kms in the northwest), Nepal (land boundary with India 1,751 kms in the north), Bangladesh (land boundary...
Leapfrog the Technological Gap
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Vol 21.2 Apr-Jun 2006 | Date: 22 Jun , 2014
India needs to do a China. Beijing has successfully converted China into a low cost manufacturing hub of the world. Similarly, New Delhi should rapidly transform India into a low cost, high end...
The three dangers to India
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Vol 22.3 Jul-Sep 2007 | Date: 18 Jun , 2014
Very few policy makers in India dare to acknowledge the danger to the nation’s territorial integrity. The security and integrity of the nation has become hostage to vote-bank politics. Democracy...
Pakistan's Fault Line
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Vol 22.1 Jan - Mar 2007 | Date: 09 Jun , 2014
The so-called land of the pure, Pakistan, on its creation in 1947 had approximately 13 percent minorities residing within an Islamic population of 76 million. In its unholy fervour to achieve...
हमारा नहीं पाकिस्तान का हित...
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Courtesy: www.jagran.com | Date: 02 Jun , 2014
प्रधानमंत्री नरेंद्र मोदी ने दक्षेस सदस्य देशों को अपने शपथ ग्रहण समारोह...
सेना और व्यवस्था में न पनपे...
By: Bharat Verma | Date: 15 May , 2014
पाकिस्तान के एक जनरल ने कहा था- ‘अगर भारतीय सेना टूट जाए, तो भारत को तोड़ा जा...
Chinese are coming…
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Vol. 28.2 Apr-Jun 2013 | Date: 05 May , 2014
After the Mughals and the British, it now appears to be China’s turn to encircle, enslave and make India a surrogate power. Apparently, China firmly believes that two tigers cannot live on the...
'The P-17 Frigates, heralds a paradigm shift in the design'
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Vol 25.2 Apr-Jun 2010 | Date: 27 Apr , 2014
Interview with Rear Admiral KN Vaidyanathan, Director General Naval Design Shivalik, the first Ship of the P-17 Class, appears different from earlier designs of IN ships. What are the major new...
How Antony's incompetence has left India's defences in a mess
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Courtesy: Rediff.com | Date: 12 Mar , 2014
In the past seven years Defence Minister A K Antony’s incompetence has ensured that India’s military capability rapidly shrinks. Primarily, the tax-payer spends money on appointing the defence...
The Fake Military Coup
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Feb , 2014
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh should order investigations by a retired Supreme Court Judge into the fake military coup propagated by former Defence Secretary Shashi Kant Sharma maligning and...
2014 में रक्षा की प्राथमिकताएं
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Courtesy: Rashtriya Sahara | Date: 06 Jan , 2014
हमारे देश में हर चीज के साथ ही असंगत दृष्टिकोण अपनाया जाता है। हम मुकम्मल...
Slow Pace of Army Modernization
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 Jan , 2014
Strange as it may seem, Indian genius can successfully launch multiple satellites or a spacecraft to Mars but seems hopelessly ill-equipped to develop a basic armament such as a rifle, carbine or...
Military: The Grid of Violence
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Vol. 28.4 Oct-Dec 2013 | Date: 11 Nov , 2013
Violence unleashed upon a nation can only be met by developing the capability to counter the violence. In the twenty-first century, unless societies with deep-rooted beliefs in non-violence and...
घुसपैठ भारत की कमजोरी
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Courtesy: Rashtriya Sahara | Date: 09 Oct , 2013
केरन सेक्टर में घुसपैठ का खुलासा 23 सितम्बर को हुआ लेकिन पाकिस्तान की यह...
Strategy for incremental influence in Asia
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Vol 17.4 Oct-Dec 2002 | Date: 03 Oct , 2013
In the unfolding geopolitical scenario, two major forces are driving the world today: modernisation and globalisation on one hand and terrorism on the other. The attacks on America on September...
The Chinese Game Plan
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Vol. 28.3 Jul-Sep 2013 | Date: 26 Aug , 2013
With the opening of two fronts against New Delhi, Beijing will, in collusion with Islamabad, repeat ‘1962’ in the near future on an enlarged scale. The ‘peace’ witnessed in Kashmir for...
China's 'New Cold War' puts democracies in danger
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Vol 25.4 Oct-Dec 2010 | Date: 06 Jul , 2013
The spread of two authoritarian streams, Chinese communism and the Islamic fundamentalism, in combination or otherwise, threaten the survival of democracies in Asia. First, Beijing deftly sucked...
How India can acquire great power status?
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Vol 23.1 Jan-Mar 2008 | Date: 29 Jun , 2013
Due to New Delhi’s slavish use of ‘carrot’ since Independence, without any equilibrium with the ‘stick’, the great power potential of India lies in tatters. In fact it threatens to...
End the neglect of the Military
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Vol. 28.1 Jan-Mar 2013 | Date: 26 Apr , 2013
Growing threat perceptions call for urgent sprucing up of the military machine which has been grossly neglected in India so far. The Pakistan Army’s strategy in the near future will be based...
India's Shrinking Military Capabilities
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Vol 26.2 Apr-Jun 2011 | Date: 20 Feb , 2013
Indian military capabilities shrink rapidly while the threats multiply. Instead of removing poverty, the politician turned poverty into business of vote-bank-politics. Result: Sixty-two years...