Articles By Dr Subhash Kapila
Afghanistan’s End-Game- Scenarios-Perspectives- Analysed
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Date: 31 Jan , 2019
Afghanistan’s preferred end-scenario in positive terms of a ‘Stable and Secure Afghanistan’ not materialising after seventeen years of US military embedment arises mainly from United States...
Russia’s Japan Policy on wrong side of Geo Political Realities
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Date: 27 Jan , 2019
Russia seems in 2019 to have got its geopolitical realties wrong going by the condescending and arrogant statements of Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov made at an annual conference directed at...
United States Potent Existential Crisis- 2018- The China Threat
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Date: 19 Jan , 2019
The ‘China Threat ‘emerging in 2018 in comprehensive and diverse manifestations poses an existential crisis challenging not only the continuance of United States as the global unipolar...
Russia-India Relationship Perspectives Beyond 2018
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Date: 11 Jan , 2019
Russia-India relationship beyond 2018 in terms of perspectives does not offer the same optimism and generate the same fizz as it did till before the disintegration of the Former Soviet Union....
Bangladesh: Sheikh Hasina Wins a Third Term: BNP Routed
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Date: 01 Jan , 2019
In the elections held on December 30, the Awami League led Alliance won 288 seats with the BNP led Alliance winning only 7 sets. Three seats went to others. It is a land slide victory for Hasina...
Indo-Pacific Security Endangered by United States’ Likely Exit From...
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 30 Dec , 2018
Afghanistan’s geostrategic location and presence of US Forces embedded in Afghanistan provide a sheet anchor for Indo Pacific security on its Western Periphery. Indo Pacific Security template...
Pakistan Army’s Day of Infamy-December 16 1971-Time to Ponder
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Date: 22 Dec , 2018
Pakistan’s annals of history in the decades to come will carry rankling of December 16 1971 as “Pakistan Army’s Day of Infamy” when General Niazi of the Pakistan Army and 93,000 of his...
Japan’s Security Challenges and its Deterrent Military Posture
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 17 Dec , 2018
Japan facing comprehensive threats from a militaristic China and its nuclear proxy North Korea has finally woken up from its Peace Constitution Article 9 slumber realising that the ‘China...
Afghanistan as US Policy Conundrum-end 2018
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 12 Dec , 2018
Geopolitically in end-2018 the United States finds itself in a policy conundrum on Afghanistan primarily because of the inability of US policy planners to recognise that Afghanistan geographically...
Pakistan-US Relationship in Spiralling Nosedive -End 2018
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Date: 04 Dec , 2018
Strategic denouement of the United States with Pakistan’s limited strategic utility to US interests was noticeable in end of last decade and has finally come to a head in end-2018 with emergence...
China and United States on a Collision Trajectory -2018
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Date: 25 Nov , 2018
China in end-2018 seems set firmly on a collision trajectory with the United States which has got accentuated with Chinese President Xi Jinping with his oversized strategic ambitions having met...
China Attempts Resetting Relations with Japan under Geo Political Pressures
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 18 Nov , 2018
China’s invitation to Japanese PM Shinzo Abe to visit China in end-October 2018 may be significant in terms of China’s shift to reset relations with Japan due to prevailing geopolitical...
Pakistan-China headed for Massive Shift due to Geopolitical Compulsions
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Date: 11 Nov , 2018
Geopolitical compulsions seem to be bearing down heavily in steering Pakistan- China ‘All Weather Iron Brother Relations’ towards a massive shift in end-2018 whose first indicator has been the...
Japan- Enhancing Security & Military Profile in Indo-Pacifc
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Date: 27 Oct , 2018
Japan imperceptibly but surely is engaged in enhancing its security and military profile in a comprehensive manner which augurs well for overall Indo Pacific security and stability in what can be...
China's natural Allies -Pakistan and North Korea in Economic Distress
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 27 Oct , 2018
Pakistan and North Korea long maintained by me as China’s only ‘Natural Allies’ are in an acute economic distress. China may have built-up Pakistan and North Korea as nuclear weapons states...
Pakistan's Failing Economy Arises from Oversized Pak Army's Budget
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Date: 21 Oct , 2018
Pakistan in 2018 has ended up as a ‘Economically Failed State’ chiefly due to massive appropriations by Pakistan Army GHQ in Rawalpindi with no questions dare asked nor accountability called...
India’s Pivotal Indo-Pacific Power Build up needs US & Russian Inputs
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Date: 10 Oct , 2018
Contemporary and unfolding geopolitical imperatives dictate that both the United States and Russia need to stand committed to the power-buildup of India as the pivotal Indo Pacific Power....
Pak's offer to India by Imran Khan's Regime is Determined by International...
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 04 Oct , 2018
Contextually in September 2018 Pakistan PM Imran Khan’s peace dialogue offer to India is more determined by compulsions of international optics where Pakistan is globally isolated because of...
Putin's Visit to India -October 2018-Comes with a heavy Pakistani Baggage
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Date: 03 Oct , 2018
The Russia-India Special Strategic Partnership spanning decades has lost its sheen for India with Russia’s pivot in South Asia towards Pakistan as a piquant response to the growing US-India...
Middle East Acocalypse Now with Regional Power Tussle-2018
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Date: 29 Sep , 2018
In the closing months of 2018, the Middle East security environment presents the spectacle of an intense power struggle going on among the major regional powers like Iran, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and...