Articles By Dr Subhash Kapila
India’s Foreign Policy and the China-Pakistan Axis 2016
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 24 Oct , 2016
India’s foreign policy has far too long been vainly straitjacketed by pious hopes that Indian appeasement policies of the 2004-14 era towards China and Pakistan would induce moderation in their...
Russia Perceptively Retrieves Policy Drift in South Asia Policy towards Pakistan
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 21 Oct , 2016
Russia has finally positively acted in retrieving its South Asia policy drift towards Pakistan witnessed recently in Russia-India Summit on the side-lines of BRICS Summit in Goa last weekend....
BRICS Summit October 2016 in India Against Soured Background
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Date: 12 Oct , 2016
The 8th BRICS Summit is being hosted by India in Goa on October 15-16 2016 ordinarily would have passed off as an eventful diplomatic event, but it now takes place against a soured background due...
India’s Surgical Strikes into Pakistan: The Unintended Consequences
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 11 Oct , 2016
India’s surgical strikes into Pakistan has not only been a game-changer for India’s strategic assertions but as an unintended consequence stirred more notably a domestic debate within...
India Finally Sheds Two Decades of ‘Strategic Restraint’ against Pakistan
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Date: 03 Oct , 2016
India’s military strikes across the LOC on Pakistan Army harboured terrorists launching pads in the early hours of September 29 2016 marks a paradigm shift in India’s much needed dispensing of...
Russia’s Unfriendly Political Signalling to India on Pakistan
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Date: 29 Sep , 2016
Russia’s promiscuous relationship with Pakistan while at the same time professing enduring commitment to its long-standing ‘Special Strategic Partnership’ with India should no longer fool...
Pakistan Army Chief’s Adventurism 2016 and India’s Options
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 23 Sep , 2016
Pakistan Army Chiefs have compulsively resorted to Kashmir-centric military adventurism against India based on flawed and misconceived assessments on Kashmir Valley being ripe for secession from...
SAARC Needs Disbandment
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Date: 15 Sep , 2016
Contemporary politico-military developments in the Indian Subcontinent in the run-up to 2016 clearly posit that SAARC which was raised with great hopes in December 1985 to foster regional...
China’s Mythification as Superpower by United States Fades
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 13 Sep , 2016
Perceptionaly, United States mythification of China as a potential Superpower seems to have lasted as long as China confined itself to use of ‘Soft Power’ strategies to gain influence in Asia...
Afghanistan: The Imperatives of Military Capacity Building by India
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 04 Sep , 2016
Afghanistan in mid-2016 presents a bleak security picture with the country once again being subjected to series of suicide bombings in Kabul and Taliban again becoming active against the State as...
Vietnam: Indian Prime Minister Modi’s Significant Visit
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Date: 01 Sep , 2016
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s scheduled visit to Vietnam is significantly well-timed strategically and politically besides reinforcing the time-honoured Vietnam-India Strategic...
Bangladesh to Balochistan: Pakistan Army’s Sordid Record of Ethnic Genocide
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Date: 20 Aug , 2016
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s stirring reference to Balochistan in his Independence Day Speech 2016 not only marked a strategic shift in India’s foreign policy but also implicit was...
Chinese Foreign Minister's Visit to India on 12th August- Significant
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Date: 12 Aug , 2016
Against the backdrop of Indian Prime Minister’s forthcoming visits to Vietnam and Laos in early September 2016 on his way to attend the G-20 Meet in China, the visit of the Chinese Foreign...
Pakistan Army’s Next Chief of Army Staff?
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Date: 11 Aug , 2016
Pakistan Army’s current Chief of Army Staff, General Raheel Sharif is due to retire in end-November 2016 and though he had declared in January 2016 that he would not seek extension, the...
Russia-US Rapprochement: A Strategic Imperative
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 04 Aug , 2016
Russia and United States estranged relationship impinges on global security and stability with China as a ‘revisionist power’ being the major beneficiary of this estrangement and with vested...
India Needs to Fast-Track Securing Andaman & Nicobar Islands against...
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 30 Jul , 2016
China has cast its covetous designs on India’s Andaman & Nicobar Islands evidenced by recent Chinese statements both in New Delhi and in China. Imperatives exist of fast-track securing of these...
Pakistan in Indian Diplomatic Cross Hairs
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Date: 29 Jul , 2016
In July 2016, Pakistan suddenly finds itself in India’s diplomatic cross hairs due to its political over-reach on Kashmir by Pakistan’s apex levels attempting to maximise Pakistan-generated...
Russia’s Exorbitant Strategic Costs In ‘China Pivot’
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Date: 09 Jul , 2016
Russia’s exorbitant strategic cost incurred in its ‘strategic pivot’ to China is irrefutably true leading to perceptive loss of its global stature and negating President Putin’s...
Chabahar Tripartite Agreement Signals New Geopolitical Power-Play
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 20 Jun , 2016
The Chabahar Tripartite Agreement signed in Tehran on May 23, 2016 between India, Iran and Afghanistan during PM Modi’s Iran visit signals the dawn of a new power- play though essentially...
The Modi Doctrine and the United States: Analysis
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Date: 15 Jun , 2016
The Modi Doctrine christened as such by the Obama Administration in June 2016 was a strategic inevitability from which India shied away in earlier years in defiance of compelling geopolitical and...