Articles By Dr Subhash Kapila

Tibet Freedom Needs to be Pivotal Thrust of Indian Foreign Policy 2020

Tibet Freedom Needs to be Pivotal Thrust of Indian Foreign Policy 2020

By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 10 Sep , 2020

India’s foreign policy establishment and its mandarins for decades have swept under the carpet the issue of Tibet’s “Freedom” from brutal Chinese Military Occupation impelled by...

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China-Iran Strategic Partnership Agreement - Geopolitical Implications Analysed

China-Iran Strategic Partnership Agreement - Geopolitical Implications Analysed

By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Date: 06 Sep , 2020

China-Iran Strategic Partnership Agreement whose Draft was leaked in public domain some weeks back may appear at first sight to be a game-changer  in Middle East geopolitics  but when analysed...

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Pakistan PM Imran Khan Mortgages Nation’s Future to China

Pakistan PM Imran Khan Mortgages Nation’s Future to China

By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Date: 25 Aug , 2020

Pakistan PM Imran Khan in a riposte to Saudi Arabia’s hardened stand snub against Pakistan consequent to Pakistan Foreign Minister’s threats to the Head of OIC on Kashmir issue has post-haste...

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Japan & India Convergent Strategic Perspectives on ‘China-Threat’ Analysed

Japan & India Convergent Strategic Perspectives on ‘China-Threat’ Analysed

By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Date: 25 Jan , 2020

Japan and India while adhering to diplomatic niceties may under-play or de-emphasise  the ‘China Threat’  as detrimental to Asian Security and to respective national security interests of...

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Kashmir As "Disputed Territory" Bogey Fades into History- 2019

By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Date: 03 Sep , 2019

Kashmir as ‘Disputed Territory’ bogey nauseatingly maintained by Pakistan ever since 1947 and permissively perpetuated by past Indian Governments due to  political timidity faded into history...

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Pakistan Army Pushes Pakistan to Existential Cross Roads

Pakistan Army Pushes Pakistan to Existential Cross Roads

By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Date: 24 Aug , 2019

Pakistan Army which tightly controls Pakistan’s foreign policy and security formulations has endangered Pakistan’s survival as an independent Nation-State with a looming critical existential...

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China’s Military White Paper 2019 - Perceptionally Analysed

China’s Military White Paper 2019 - Perceptionally Analysed

By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Date: 29 Jul , 2019

Perceptionally, the Chinese Military White Paper 2019 publicly released on July 24 needs to be viewed as a direct response to the United States generated geopolitical churning on China’s...

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China Fighting a Losing Battle against US in Indo Pacific Region-2019

China Fighting a Losing Battle against US in Indo Pacific Region-2019

By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Date: 04 Jun , 2019

Perceptional battles which today constitute the main ingredient of foreign policies of major Nations indicates that China is losing out to United States in the Indo Pacific Region in 2019 going by...

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Japan Visit by US President Trump May 2019- Vexatious Geopolitical Overhang...

Japan Visit by US President Trump May 2019- Vexatious Geopolitical Overhang...

By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Date: 27 May , 2019

US President Trump’s ongoing visit to Japan (May 25-28 2019) takes place when Japan singularly stands out contextually as US bulwark against vexatious geopolitical overhang of challenges posed...

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India’s Foreign Policy- Post May 23 2019- Three Scenarios

India’s Foreign Policy- Post May 23 2019- Three Scenarios

By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Date: 13 May , 2019

India’s geopolitical significance rose to unprecedented heights in global strategic calculus under the assertive foreign policy initiatives and formulations of Prime Minister Modi during period...

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Indian Navy 2019: Formidable Impeatives of Indian Ocean Dominance

Indian Navy 2019: Formidable Impeatives of Indian Ocean Dominance

By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 29 Apr , 2019

The Indian Ocean in 2019 emerges as yet another arena of ‘Great Power Games’ in which intersect powerful maritime ambitions of China on one hand and India and the Western Powers on the other...

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Indian Army Downsizing: Strategically Imprudent

Indian Army Downsizing: Strategically Imprudent

By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 23 Apr , 2019

The Indian Republic to attain and sustain the status of a credible predominant military power in South Asia and to ascend the aspirational ladder of emerging as a Major Global Power needs a 2...

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Indian Air Force Strike Power Needs critical Augmentation

Indian Air Force Strike Power Needs critical Augmentation

By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 18 Apr , 2019

The Indian Air Force spectacular and dramatic deep penetration strikes on Pakistan terror camps at Balakot on February 26 2019 by India’s valiant ‘Air Warriors’ enabled by bold & decisive...

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Afghanistan’s Future Cannot be secured by sidelining India

Afghanistan’s Future Cannot be secured by sidelining India

By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Date: 08 Apr , 2019

US Special Envoy on Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad skipping India as he cavorts across other regional capitals from Islamabad to Amman to broker a peace settlement with Taliban raises crucial...

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China Does not walk the talk extolling the Wuhan Spirit

China Does not walk the talk extolling the Wuhan Spirit

By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Date: 17 Mar , 2019

The Chinese Prime Minister was recently extolling the Wuhan Spirit and how it has helped in keeping China-India relations on a friendly footing. Rhetoric aside, China’s actions in the wake of...

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China: Persists in Imposing Adversarial Template in Masood Azhar Case

China: Persists in Imposing Adversarial Template in Masood Azhar Case

By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Date: 14 Mar , 2019

China brazenly and wilfully reinforced Indian perceptions that its policies and actions in intent and deed are decidedly those of a diehard military opponent of India and Indian national security...

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Pakistan and India Visits by Saudi Arabia Crown Prince- Analysed

Pakistan and India Visits by Saudi Arabia Crown Prince- Analysed

By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Date: 26 Feb , 2019

Saudi Arabia Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman, the de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia visited Pakistan and India – February 2019 with a further follow-up visit to China. Saudi Arabia’s underlying...

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Pakistan Based Terrorism and Suicide Bombings against India raising Ugly...

Pakistan Based Terrorism and Suicide Bombings against India raising Ugly...

By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Date: 15 Feb , 2019

Pakistan- based and Pakistan-reared terrorism and suicide bombings against India targeting Kashmir Valley have again raised their ugly heads in February 2019 which again brings into central focus...

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Afghanistan’s Future- Exclusive Preserve of Afghan People and not...

Afghanistan’s Future- Exclusive Preserve of Afghan People and not...

By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 10 Feb , 2019

Afghanistan’s future and decisions thereto are exclusively the preserve of the will of the Afghan people and not within purview of the United States-Taliban Agreements as perceptionaly the...

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Afghanistan Endangered By US Imparting Political Legitimacy to Taliban

Afghanistan Endangered By US Imparting Political Legitimacy to Taliban

By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Date: 04 Feb , 2019

Afghanistan’s secure and stable future, however apparently uncertain in 2019, stands more endangered by United States imparting political legitimacy to Afghan Taliban by engaging them in...

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