Articles By Cmde C Uday Bhaskar (Retd.)
Vikrant sets Sail: India Demonstrates Prowess to Design and Build Aircraft...
By: Cmde C Uday Bhaskar (Retd.) | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Monitor | Date: 05 Aug , 2021
Wednesday, 4 August 2021 will be remembered as a momentous day in the annals of India’s chequered maritime history as the first indigenously designed and built aircraft carrier – the 37,500...
La Perouse: Quad Emerges as Strategic Fulcrum of like-minded Nations
By: Cmde C Uday Bhaskar (Retd.) | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Monitor | Date: 08 Apr , 2021
In a significant development related to the Indian Ocean region (IOR), the five-nation, three-day La Perouse naval exercise led by France will conclude on Thursday (April 7). The participating...
Recalling the Pain of 1962 Indo-China War: Lessons Forgotten, Truth Buried
By: Cmde C Uday Bhaskar (Retd.) | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Monitor | Date: 22 Oct , 2020
On October 20, 1962, the Chinese troops launched a surprise attack against India across what has become the LAC (Line of Actual Control) and then prime minister Jawahar Lal Nehru was bewildered...
Rafale induction and the make-believe brigade: India should focus on hard...
By: Cmde C Uday Bhaskar (Retd.) | Date: 15 Sep , 2020
The induction of five Rafale multi-role fighter aircraft into the Indian Air Force at a high-visibility ceremony at the Ambala Air Force Station on September 10 marks the first phase of the...
20 year after Kargil: India's Military Modernisation remains unaddressed
By: Cmde C Uday Bhaskar (Retd.) | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Monitor | Date: 16 Jul , 2019
July 2019 marks the 20th anniversary of the Kargil war that caught India by surprise in the summer of 1999. Pakistani troops under the guise of being ‘irregulars’ violated Indian...
Space warfare: The aspiration-constraint challenge for India
By: Cmde C Uday Bhaskar (Retd.) | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Monitor | Date: 20 Jun , 2019
Media reports indicate that India is organizing its first simulated space-warfare exercise in late July, ostensibly to counter China’s growing capabilities in this hi-technology domain that...
India's Terrorism Challenge cannot be Framed in Dangerous Binaries
By: Cmde C Uday Bhaskar (Retd.) | Date: 14 Apr , 2019
Terrorism has become a major issue in the current election campaign and Prime Minister Narendra Modi set the tone in a very undesirable and divisive manner when he addressed a rally in Wardha,...
Modi Foreign-Security Policy Record: Some success, some hard realities
By: Cmde C Uday Bhaskar (Retd.) | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Monitor | Date: 01 Apr , 2019
As India prepares for the next general election in April-May, where almost 900 million citizens are eligible to vote in what is often described as the biggest carnival of democracy, the pre-poll...
Pulwama-Balakot can be defining moment for India in a long drawn out war
By: Cmde C Uday Bhaskar (Retd.) | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Monitor | Date: 11 Mar , 2019
The grenade attack in Jammu city on Thursday (March 7) that killed two people and injured more than 40 has been attributed to the Hizbul Mujahedin and comes a few weeks after the Pulwama attack....
Pulwama attack: Need for a radical review of internal security, foreign policy
By: Cmde C Uday Bhaskar (Retd.) | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Monitor | Date: 17 Feb , 2019
The suicide bomber terror attack on a paramilitary convoy in the Pulwama district February 14 that killed more than 40 troopers of the Central Reserve Police Force and injured many others is the...
Kabul flux a foreign policy challenge for India
By: Cmde C Uday Bhaskar (Retd.) | Date: 23 Jan , 2019
Kabul remains vulnerable to Taliban terror attacks even as it is the focus of renewed diplomatic activity in the new year. January 2019 is the 18th such dawn since the 9/11 al-Qaida attacks...
India-Pakistan: The Berlin Wall Moment is Still Far Away
By: Cmde C Uday Bhaskar (Retd.) | Date: 19 Dec , 2018
The six kilometre Kartarpur corridor that will connect the Indian state of Punjab with the holy Sikh shrine in Pakistan—the much revered Kartarpur Sahib—the final resting place of Guru Nanak,...
The complicated India-Pakistan Dynamic: Can it build on the Kartarpur hope?
By: Cmde C Uday Bhaskar (Retd.) | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Monitor | Date: 30 Nov , 2018
The politics, and the complicated dynamics, enveloping the troubled India-Pakistan relationship came into sharp focus once again at the foundation stone-laying ceremony of the “Kartarpur...
Turbulence in Sri Lanka: Are leaders playing the proxy India-China game?
By: Cmde C Uday Bhaskar (Retd.) | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Monitor | Date: 31 Oct , 2018
Sri Lankan politics witnessed unexpected turbulence when President Maithripala Sirisena decided to sack his Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and, in a surprising move, appointed his arch-rival...
India distributes its strategic dependence: Prioritising US, but no dilution...
By: Cmde C Uday Bhaskar (Retd.) | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Monitor | Date: 20 Sep , 2018
The twice-postponed 2 plus 2 talks between India and the USA which brought the foreign and defence ministers of both countries together at one forum concluded on an upbeat note in New Delhi on...
India must show its a different kind of a Nuclear-Weapon Power
By: Cmde C Uday Bhaskar (Retd.) | Date: 06 Aug , 2018
August 6 is etched in an apocalyptic manner on the global consciousness given the nuclear enormity that engulfed the unsuspecting residents of Japan’s Hiroshima on that day in 1945. Three days...
Needed a Vajpayee template to resolve Kashmir
By: Cmde C Uday Bhaskar (Retd.) | Date: 02 Jul , 2018
The bugle for the 2019 national election has been sounded by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) through its decision to pull out of an uneasy and prickly alliance it had forged with the...
Resetting India–Nepal ties: Oli shows his pragmatism
By: Cmde C Uday Bhaskar (Retd.) | Date: 18 Apr , 2018
The visit by Nepalese Prime Minister KPS Oli to Delhi on April 6 continued a tradition going back to 1990, wherein the elected leader of Kathmandu makes India the first destination for an official...
DefExpo 2018: Can it be the catalyst for India's goal of strategic autonomy?
By: Cmde C Uday Bhaskar (Retd.) | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Monitor | Date: 07 Apr , 2018
The four-day long DefExpo 2018 that opens outside of Chennai on April 11 has been innovatively and generously showcased as ‘India: The Emerging Defence Manufacturing Hub’ and a large...
India needs to bring more Innovation, Indigenisation in National Security Matrix
By: Cmde C Uday Bhaskar (Retd.) | Date: 01 Feb , 2018
India’s overall financial outlay in the national budget offers some instructive insights about the constraints and the opportunities in which national security in its most...