Articles By Brig Amar Cheema
Competitive Shia-Sunni Gas Pipelines Politics?
By: Brig Amar Cheema | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 Jun , 2014
When combat soldiers are faced with a chemical attack, the military practice to exhale polluted air before donning a protective mask is by shouting ‘gas-gas-gas.’ By repeating the ‘G’...
Article 370 and Nation-Building: A Reality Check
By: Brig Amar Cheema | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 31 May , 2014
“Nothing is as admirable in politics as a short memory’’ –John Galbraith Nation building is an ‘ongoing’ phenomenon and in the case of India’s quest for nationhood, it is definitely...
Arming ‘After’ Aiming: Agenda for the New Government
By: Brig Amar Cheema | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Apr , 2014
“The inability to think beyond rigid assumptions and perceptions in matters strategic have often led to surprise, failure and disaster” Mr Stephen Cohen needs to be complemented for flagging...
Games Nations Play: Chinese Assertiveness & America’s Re-balancing
By: Brig Amar Cheema | Issue: Vol. 28.4 Oct-Dec 2013 | Date: 28 Dec , 2013
Realpolitik dictates a policy of ‘congagement’ of China and explains America’s reasons for accommodating the former at the grand table. Thus, while the US-Chinese relationship is expected...
War over Syria: Imperatives, Ramifications and Implications
By: Brig Amar Cheema | Date: 02 Sep , 2013
Despite the plain talk by President Barack Obama, there is still no clarity on ‘when,’ ‘how’ and ‘with what’ the ‘coalition of the willing,’ led by the USA would act against Syria...
Reactivation of the Kashmir Frontiers
By: Brig Amar Cheema | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Aug , 2013
The Line of Control (LC) that marks the de-facto Indo-Pak border in the disputed state of J&K is witnessing the familiar sequence of infiltration, reverberating gunfire and mindless violence which...