Articles By Col R Hariharan
Maldives’ Maladies
By: Col R Hariharan | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 Apr , 2024
Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu, who got elected flaunting his “India out” credentials, surprised everyone last week by saying India will continue to remain his country’s closest ally. In...
Coming to terms with China: Modi’s foreign policy initiatives in our...
By: Col R Hariharan | Date: 26 Apr , 2018
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is meeting President Xi Jinping in what is described as informal summit on April 27 and 28, 2018. They are expected to try and reboot their relations which had come...
Nationalism isn't a dirty word
By: Col R Hariharan | Date: 12 May , 2017
I was astounded to see the caption in a recent TV debate: “Stone pelters versus Nationalists.” It is shocking to see, after decades of efforts to establish law and order in Kashmir, made with the...
Why India is alone in the war against terrorism and Pakistan
By: Col R Hariharan | Issue: Courtesy: www.col.hariharan.info/ | Date: 25 Jun , 2015
There are three disturbing trends brought out in the latest Country Reports on Terrorism 2014 released by the US State Department on June 19, 2015 that affect India’s national interest. The...
Raid on insurgents heralds assertive strategy against trans-border extremism
By: Col R Hariharan | Issue: Courtesy: www.col.hariharan.info/ | Date: 12 Jun , 2015
The successful raids by Indian army commando on two camps of motley collection of Northeast insurgent groups under the leadership of the Naga Socialist Council of Nagaland-Khaplang group...
Strategic perspectives on China’s South Asian connectivity
By: Col R Hariharan | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Jan , 2015
China’s presence in South Asia is now firmly established. Most of the South Asian countries including India are trying to take advantage of China’s desire to increase its trade and economic...
China’s dilemmas in Af-Pak region
By: Col R Hariharan | Issue: Courtesy: www.col.hariharan.info/ | Date: 08 Sep , 2014
Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to Pakistan to be scheduled along with his visit to India this month has been cancelled. It was strategically a very important visit for both China and...
India, China and Sri Lanka: the uneasy triangle
By: Col R Hariharan | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Aug , 2014
China’s President Xi Jinping has accepted a long-standing invitation from President Mahinda Rajapaksa to visit Sri Lanka sometime this year. The first-ever visit by a Chinese President to Sri...
Unraveling the direction of India’s China policy
By: Col R Hariharan | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Jun , 2014
Since then Prime Minister Modi has returned home after his maiden foreign visit to Bhutan. Modi’s as a relationship building exercise it may be called a moderately successful visit, considering...
Foreign Policy and Power Projection under Modi
By: Col R Hariharan | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 May , 2014
Narendra Modi, the BJP’s prime ministerial candidate, has been given massive mandate by the people in the just concluded general elections to the parliament. The BJP is poised to get a...
National security after 66 years of independence
By: Col R Hariharan | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Nov , 2013
Indian armed forces were guardians of British colonial rule before independence. They have now distinguished themselves as the defenders of independent India by shedding their blood on more than...
China cashing on India’s Sri Lanka woes
By: Col R Hariharan | Date: 08 Nov , 2013
Even as the Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh was finding it hard to make up his mind over attending the CHOGM (Commonwealth Heads of Governments Meeting) to be held in Colombo in two weeks from...
Is Army entering politics?
By: Col R Hariharan | Date: 10 Oct , 2013
[This article includes comments made by the author in a panel discussion titled “Is the army entering politics?” in a TV news channel on September 24, 2013. Other two panelists belonged to...
India-China stand-off: Sun Tzu in action
By: Col R Hariharan | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 Apr , 2013
Merely by sending a platoon of their troops to camp 19 km (upgraded after 10 days from 10 km reported earlier) inside our territory on February 15 near Daulat Beg Oldi (DBO) along the Line of...
Why the North Korean stand off?
By: Col R Hariharan | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Apr , 2013
There are both contemporary and historical reasons behind the North Korean threat to launch an offensive against South Korea and strike at U.S. bases in Guam and Hawaii. North Korea (Democratic...
Chinese defence minister’s visit to Sri Lanka: an Indian perspective
By: Col R Hariharan | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Sep , 2012
China’s Defence Minister General Liang Guanglie’s visited Sri Lanka for five days from August 29, 2012. The first-ever visit by a Chinese defence minister to Sri Lanka with an entourage of 23...
Strategic power play in Myanmar
By: Col R Hariharan | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 May , 2012
The US Secretary of State Ms Hilary Clinton’s recent visit to Myanmar, the first ever of its kind in the last five decades, is likely to be a turning point in the estranged relationship between...
PM's Conference on Internal Security - Q&A
By: Col R Hariharan | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Apr , 2012
Prime Minister has said Left Wing extremism remains a major challenge to the internal security of the country? What are your views? The Prime Minister had highlighted Left Wing extremism (LWE) as...
Subterranean threats to India-Sri Lanka relations
By: Col R Hariharan | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Apr , 2012
According to a news item in the Colombo daily “The Island,” Sri Lanka intelligence services have received information that around 150 terrorists who returned to Sri Lanka from India were now...
Is Myanmar-China relation entering a tricky phase?
By: Col R Hariharan | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Mar , 2012
Myanmar’s decision to suspend the construction of the Chinese-aided Irrawaddy Myitsone hydroelectric dam project in Kachin State comes as a pleasant surprise, whatever be the reasons behind the...