Articles By Brig Anil Gupta
LOC Ceasefire: Need for a Formal Agreement
By: Brig Anil Gupta | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Feb , 2021
An unexpected and sudden announcement merely 24 hours prior to the eve of the second anniversary of the Balakot air strike that had brought two nuclear neighbours to the brink of war has brought...
New wave of Terror in Jammu & Kashmir
By: Brig Anil Gupta | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Feb , 2021
Post 05 August 2019, Pakistan has tried different tricks to remain relevant in Kashmir. However, most of the Pakistani moves have either failed or backfired. But as far as Pak sponsored terror is...
Why did the Dragon Relent
By: Brig Anil Gupta | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Feb , 2021
The agreement reached between the two Asian giants to ease tensions on the Line of Actual Control (LAC) took many by surprise. The implementation began on 10th February with phased withdrawal from...
Lasting Peace a Distant Dream Unless We Change
By: Brig Anil Gupta | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 31 Jan , 2021
Despite ongoing series of talks to resolve the contentious military standoff in Eastern Ladakh, the Chinese incursions and aggressiveness continues on the borders. Close at the heels of revelation...
Five Fingers Dream of Mao Zedong
By: Brig Anil Gupta | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Jan , 2021
Chairman Mao Zedong, modern China’s most powerful ideologue, considered Tibet to be the right hand’s palm of China with Ladakh, Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan and NEFA (Arunachal Pradesh) as its five...
Xi Jinping and the Future of CCP
By: Brig Anil Gupta | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Jan , 2021
In an unprecedented move effective from the New Year’s Day, China has removed the military from the government control and expanded the powers of its Central Military Commission (CMC), headed by...
Naya Jammu and Kashmir: Winds of Change
By: Brig Anil Gupta | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 Dec , 2020
Year 2019 ended in J&K with mixed feelings. Towards the end of the year a major transformation had taken place with the erstwhile state being divided into two Union Territories (UTs) namely Jammu...
Article 370 is Gone for Good
By: Brig Anil Gupta | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Dec , 2020
The response of the people across both regions to the ongoing elections for the District Development Councils (DDCs) is a curt message to the status quo lobby led by the Peoples’ Alliance for...
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...