Articles By Dr Subhash Kapila
Afghanistan Geo Political Situation End 2018- Revisted
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Date: 21 Sep , 2018
Geopolitically, Afghanistan in end-2018 can best be characterised that it has certainly not turned out as United States second not so victorious Vietnam War despite Pakistan’s effort in...
Indian Armed Forces Imperatives towards a credible Miliary Posture
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 14 Sep , 2018
In 2018 India stands geopolitically tall as the Asian pivot of Indo Pacific security and stability and a nett provider of regional security. Perceptions count when it comes to credibility of...
China's Maritime Silk Road- Strategically impacts Indo-Pacifc Security
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Date: 06 Sep , 2018
China’s Maritime Silk Road projects underway in the last two years emerges as a direct strategic and military challenge to the Indo Pacific Security Template adopted by the United States, India...
China & Pakistan in United States Crosshairs in 2018
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 04 Sep , 2018
China and Pakistan in 2018 find themselves in United States strategic crosshairs in relation to their policies perceived as adversarial to US interests in East Asia and South Asia and in the...
China's Political Outreach to India 2018 Contextualised By China-US Trade War
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Date: 02 Sep , 2018
China’s political reachout to India, markedly in 2018, needs necessarily to be analysed in the context of the increasing China-US Trade War. Chinese present reachout to India is transactional...
Myanmar: Report of fact-finding Mission on Rohingya: Its Aftermath
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Date: 31 Aug , 2018
Towards the end of last month, the fact-finding Mission of OHCHR of UN released its formal report on the situation in Rohingya that is to be submitted to the UN Security Council next month. The...
Japan-India Special Strategic Partnership Needs Added Special Robustness
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Date: 26 Aug , 2018
Perceptively missing and noticeable in the last one year is that the Japan-India Special Strategic & Global Partnership is progressing routinely without the fizz that should be attendant on it by...
Pakistan New PM-Imran Khan: Nothing Changes
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Date: 20 Aug , 2018
PM Imran Khan, Pakistan’s twenty second Prime Minister sworn on August 18 2018 was not swept into office with a thumping political majority but a cobbled coalition of sorts. Hovering over PM...
South China Sea's Annexation By China and Japan's Strategic & Economic Security
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 11 Aug , 2018
China’s forcible annexation of virtually the entire maritime expanse and consequent militarisation of the South China Sea in the last decade has generated grave regional and global...
Indo-Pacific's Centrality in US National Strategy and Indian Position
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 09 Aug , 2018
Indo Pacific security and stability in 2018 occupies a centrality in US National Strategy stands unambiguously asserted at the highest levels of Trump Administration. India is expected by United...
Pakistan Army-PM Imran: A Lethal Combination for India
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Date: 04 Aug , 2018
Pakistan Army’s propensity for consistently subjecting India to entire spectrum of military conflict and provocations is a documented fact enabled by its conversion of Pakistan as a...
Pakistan General Elections- Sobering Thoughts the day After
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Date: 26 Jul , 2018
Pakistan’s political dynamics in the last seventy years stand significantly distinguished by a singular irony that in rare periods when there is no military rule, the civilian Prime Minister of...
United States Reachout to Russia- An Overriding Geo Political Imperative
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 26 Jul , 2018
United States suffers a serious drawback in being unable to make a dramatic geopolitical reachout to Russia as American policy formulations on strategically cooperative relations with Russia are...
United States-Russia Relations- Domestic Debate vs National Security
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Date: 23 Jul , 2018
In mid-July 2018 the United States stands uncertainly poised at both geopolitical and strategic crossroads where due more to domestic political compulsions the United States is seemingly unable to...
China's Game Plan to Ease Out US- Suceeding?
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Date: 13 Jul , 2018
China for decades has chafed at the overwhelming geopolitical and military predominance that the United States had superimposed in the Western Pacific at China’s doorsteps. China for decades has...
Pakistan General Elections July 2018 Subverted by the Army-Judiciary Nexus
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Date: 10 Jul , 2018
Pakistan General Elections July 2018 could have been a defining moment in Pakistan’s political history of a back-to-back democratic transfer of power through the ballot box. But all portents...
East Asia Security Not Visibly Conflictual After Trump-Kim Summit
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Date: 06 Jul , 2018
The Singapore Summit between US President Trump and North Korean Chairman Kim on the question of denuclearisation of North Korea on June 12 2018 seems to have been hyped out of proportion by the...
Pakistan General Elections July 2018 - Perspectives
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Date: 23 Jun , 2018
Pakistan’s General Elections are scheduled for mid-July 2018 but the perspectives on it remain clouded in that in the run-up what has become abundantly clear is that the Pakistan Army-Supreme...
Indo Pacific Security & US-India Strategic Partnership Reviewed 2018
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 12 Jun , 2018
Geopolitical developments of China’s exponential military rise in the last two decades endangering Indo Pacific Security can be attributed to the earlier evolution of the US-India Strategic...
United States Pillars of Asian Security 2018
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Date: 09 Jun , 2018
United States strategic embedment in Asian security can only be successfully effective when US policy in 2018 reflects that India and Japan are the pillars of Asian security and therefore a US...