Articles By Brig Anil Gupta
Nagrota Encounter: A Critical Appraisal of Pakistan’s intent and our Response
By: Brig Anil Gupta | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 Nov , 2020
The successful encounter at Nagrota, near Jammu on NH 44, in which four heavily armed Pakistani terrorists were eliminated by the alert and diligent Indian security forces, has once again exposed...
Joe Biden and Bharat
By: Brig Anil Gupta | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Nov , 2020
On January 20, 2021 the White House would have a new occupant. President Trump will vacate the same to welcome President elect Democrat Joe Biden as the 46th President of the United States of...
The Myths and Lies being spread by Gupkaris
By: Brig Anil Gupta | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 Oct , 2020
Dr Farooq Abdullah and his other colleagues are busy spreading certain myths and lies in order to regain the lost sympathies of the people who have displayed open hatred for them for the miseries...
Accession Day with a Difference
By: Brig Anil Gupta | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 Oct , 2020
26th October is a red letter day in Indian history. On this day in 1947 the then ruler of the princely state of Jammu & Kashmir finally signed the Instrument of Accession (IOA) paving way for...
Why China is so sensitive about Taiwan
By: Brig Anil Gupta | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Oct , 2020
In an unprecedented move Chinese embassy in New Delhi has issued a series of directives to Indian media and media houses regarding coverage of impending National Day of Taiwan on 10th October....
Caucasus on the Boil Again – Battle of Nagorno-Karabakh
By: Brig Anil Gupta | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Oct , 2020
While the global community was glued to Eastern Ladakh and South China Sea as flash points that may endanger the global peace due to growing Chinese belligerence because of the dissension at home...
Will Xi Jinping Relent
By: Brig Anil Gupta | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Sep , 2020
The 12-hour marathon military commanders’ level meeting, first after the 5-point consensus at Moscow, has once again ended with all indicators pointing towards stalemate. India on its part is...
Five Mistakes India Should Not Make
By: Brig Anil Gupta | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Sep , 2020
The five-point consensus signed between the foreign ministers of India and China on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) meeting at Moscow to ease tension in the Eastern...
Kashmir a settled issue should be taken off the UN Agenda
By: Brig Anil Gupta | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Sep , 2020
India has a made very strong appeal for permanently removing the Jammu & Kashmir issue under outdated agenda item of the India-Pakistan question from the United Nations Security Council (UNSC)...
India also needs Anti Access Area Denial Capabilities
By: Brig Anil Gupta | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Sep , 2020
With the fire-spitting dragon becoming aggressive by the day and two-front threat becoming almost a certainty, India needs to shed its historic “continentalist” mind set and transform from a...
Gupkar Declaration 2.0
By: Brig Anil Gupta | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Aug , 2020
Not content with anti-national, seditious, pro-separatist Gupkar Declaration signed on 04 August 2019, a day prior to the historical announcement of Modi Government, the six leaders of Kashmir...
Winds of Change in Kashmir but Pakistan refuses to Relent
By: Brig Anil Gupta | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Aug , 2020
Kashmir is fast returning to normalcy. The Central Government has decided to withdraw 100 companies of Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) which were inducted post 05 August 2019, to maintain law...
Jammu & Kashmir: Challenges before the New LG
By: Brig Anil Gupta | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Aug , 2020
The union territory (UT) of Jammu & Kashmir (JK) is undergoing a metamorphosis. Once famous world-wide as “Heaven on Earth”, it has been turned into a hell because of three decades of...
Pakistan Must End Kashmir Obsession
By: Brig Anil Gupta | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Aug , 2020
Pakistan’s obsession with Kashmir is the main cause of its economic collapse and international labelling as fountainhead of terror. Pakistani political and military leadership continues to...
One Year Without 370
By: Brig Anil Gupta | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Aug , 2020
Till 05 August 2019 the state of Jammu & Kashmir had a unique status in that it was protected by the discriminatory Article 35A and divisive Article 370. These two articles were utilised by the...
Challenging the New Kashmiri Narrative
By: Brig Anil Gupta | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Aug , 2020
Ever since the historical day of 05 August 2019 when two J&K specific articles of the Constitution of India were abrogated/made dysfunctional, the hardliner lobby in Kashmir led by the Gupkar Gang...
Dragon Enters Iran-Indian Dilemma
By: Brig Anil Gupta | Date: 17 Jul , 2020
As media reports indicate the possibility of Iran falling into China’s lap is increasing by the day. Both the nations feeling isolated globally and facing challenge from a common enemy are most...
Will Galwan become nemesis of Xi Jinping
By: Brig Anil Gupta | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Jul , 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...
The Ball is in China’s Court
By: Brig Anil Gupta | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Jul , 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...
Duplicitous Dragon could be Dodgy Again
By: Brig Anil Gupta | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Jun , 2020
The events of fateful night of 15 June in the vicinity of Patrolling Point 14 (PP14) in Galwan Valley may well turn out to be a watershed in the Sino-Indian relations on the Line of Actual Control...