Articles By Dr Subhash Kapila
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...