Articles By Dr Subhash Kapila
South China Sea: The Wages of United States Strategic Complacency
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 26 Dec , 2017
The United States in end 2017 is faced with a grave legacy challenge of the South China Sea maritime expanse under illegal military occupation of China as a result of US strategic complacency in...
United States National Security Strategy Document 2017 Saliences Analysed in...
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 22 Dec , 2017
The US National Security Strategy Document 2017, the first to be issued by President Trump in his first year of office is a significant departure from United States existing accommodative policy...
Afghanistan’s Future: The imperatives of United States Resolve
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Date: 19 Dec , 2017
Afghanistan in no military sense has emerged as United States ‘Second Vietnam’ ; however if the United States wavers in its current resolve to stabilise Afghanistan’s governance and...
Russia-China-India Trilateral Geopolitically Redundant in 2017
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Date: 17 Dec , 2017
The recent Russia-China-India Trilateral Foreign Ministers Meet in New Delhi brings into sharp focus the charade of perpetuating a geopolitically redundant conclave which serves no security...
Pakistan Army as a Politically Disruptive Force in Nation-Building
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 13 Dec , 2017
Pakistan Army having ruled over Pakistan for nearly half its existence since 1947 has no credits to distinguish itself in terms of Pakistan’s nation-building; the contrary is true in that...
Japan’s Imperatives to Break-Free from its Pacifist Constitution
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Date: 09 Dec , 2017
Japan on the verge of 2018 is geopolitically a ‘Leading Power’ in Asia along with India, and both as important heavy counterweights to a militarily disruptive China need to fast-track their...
Indo Pacific Treaty Organisation Emerges Asia Security Imperative in end-2017
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 06 Dec , 2017
Indo Pacific Asia as a geopolitical conception replacing the earlier concept of Asia Pacific has evolved markedly since 2008-2009 synchronous with China’s switch from exercise of ‘Soft...
South Korea’s Strategic Imperatives to Shed Historical Mind sets on Japan
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 04 Dec , 2017
Contextual North East Asia security imperatives dictate in 2017 for South Korea to opt for a ‘Nixonian Moment’ of a serious and sustained political and strategic reachout to Japan and shed its...
US President Trump’s Asia Pacific Tour November 2017- An Estimative Analysis
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 13 Nov , 2017
US President Trump’s first tour of the Asia Pacific in November 2017, nearly a year after assuming office, raises two questions in terms of estimative analysis— whether it was a strategic...
Afghanistan 2017 Witnesses the Power Tussle of Two New Strategic Trilaterals
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Monitor | Date: 07 Nov , 2017
Strange and ironical are geopolitical histories of a region where within two decades geopolitical alignments have spun on their heads. This happens to be the case of Afghanistan’s turbulent last...
Pakistan September 2017: State of the Nation & its Regional Implications
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Date: 11 Oct , 2017
Pakistan in September 2017 perceptionaly appears in an existential crisis wherein all major pillars of state stand engulfed in a systemic failure likely to endanger regional security and a crisis...
China & India: Inconceivable for Elephant and Dragon to Dance together
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Date: 05 Oct , 2017
Post-Dokalam Standoff in which China defused the confrontation as a political expedient to save the BRICS Summit in Beijing in September 2017, the new Chinese flavour of the season advocated by...
US-Japan-India Trilateral Ministerial Dialogue September 2017 Analysed
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Date: 26 Sep , 2017
Geopolitically, in the context of a threatening Asian security environment, the Second US-Japan-India Trilateral Ministerial Dialogue of the Foreign Ministers of the three nations was held in New...
Japanese PM Abe’s Visit to India Geopolitically Significant
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 14 Sep , 2017
Japanese PM Shinzo Abe’s visit to India on September 13-14 2017 though officially as part of the Annual Summits between the Prime Ministers of Japan and India emerges as geopolitically...
Afghanistan: Imperatives for United States Permanent Forward Military Presence
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 07 Sep , 2017
Contemporaneous and unfolding geopolitical dynamics in South and South West Asia generated by the China-Pakistan-Russia Trilateral interventionist stances on Afghanistan dictate strong imperatives...
China’s Flawed Military Capabilities Assessments on limited war with India
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Date: 25 Aug , 2017
China’s war threats against India following the Dokalam Standoff in mid-June 2017 have been shrill, threatening and a desire to ‘Teach India a Lesson’. The latest is an SCMP post in which...
Asian Security 2017 Endangered by China and its Proxies War-Mongering
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Date: 20 Aug , 2017
China and nuclear weapons states created as proxies by China, that is, North Korea and Pakistan, have rendered Asian security as explosive in 2017 by their unrestrained war-mongering and...
Afghanistan’s Renewed Significance in United States Geopolitical Calculus 2017
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 08 Aug , 2017
Afghanistan’s renewed significance in United States geopolitical calculus in 2017 seems to be impelled by the challenge of Afghanistan becoming the cockpit of global power games with the...
Pakistan Army’s Graduation from Military Coups to “Judicial Coups”
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 31 Jul , 2017
Pakistan Army yet again succeeded in overturning the strong electoral mandate with which PM Nawaz Sharif rode into power for the third time in 2013 and this time by a “Judicial Coup” with a...
China Going Strategically Berserk in 2017- A Global Concern
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 27 Jul , 2017
Communist China in 2017 emerges as a strategically berserk ‘Revisionist Power’, militarily arrogant with the first flush of unprecedented military power and setting set China on clashing...