Articles By Harsh Behere
New Delhi looks upbeat on the Iran factor but must not forget Afghanistan
By: Harsh Behere | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 Aug , 2022
Following two weeks of Chinese huffing and puffing in the Taiwan straits, this week has brought optimism around Tehran, with prospects of a Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) revival...
Perpetual turmoil till November
By: Harsh Behere | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Aug , 2022
In the ancient Chinese game of Weiqi, better known in the West as Go, the objective is not to knock out your opponent but to weaken and stifle the enemy with more space. Players seek to build...
Indo-Pacific Charter: Mapping the Post Shinzo Abe Era
By: Harsh Behere | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 Jul , 2022
As the world mourns the passing of a towering global statesman and a born strategist, former Japanese Prime Minister (PM) Shinzo Abe, QUAD nations must come together to write the Indo-Pacific...
Mainstreaming India's National Security Studies
By: Harsh Behere | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Jul , 2022
As the foundation stone of INDU (Indian National Defense University) forlorn on a field in Haryana and the INDU Bill languishes in the Lok Sabha, Pakistan’s National Defense University (NDU) has...
Assessing Pakistan’s food insecurity
By: Harsh Behere | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 May , 2022
A tormenting heat wave swept through the subcontinent aggravating non-traditional security challenges. One wonders what Kautilya would have thought sipping aampanna in this scorching heat gazing...
Frenemies reunited by Putin
By: Harsh Behere | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Mar , 2022
Putin has shaken up West Asia realpolitik once more. Convergence of interests has brought in an unlikely friendship like UAE-Israel and Saudi-Russia. As the war in Ukraine drags on, ententes are...
The first casualty of war: Information
By: Harsh Behere | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Mar , 2022
“They lie in the office but beat them in the field” – Suvorov. As a result of the ongoing war in Ukraine, one gets the impression that Russian, and even more so Soviet-styled, Information warfare...
India's Diplomatic Bharatnatyam
By: Harsh Behere | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Mar , 2022
“A nation has security when it does not have to sacrifice its legitimate definitions interests to avoid war, and is able, if challenged, to maintain them by war.” ~ Walter Lippmann While the...
ASEAN seeks centrality with regional alliances to offset Beijing
By: Harsh Behere | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Feb , 2022
While the world is stands fixated on the Ukraine Imbroligo, the interplay of regional alliances and maritime law enforcement is taking place. Regional powers and QUAD are slowly making head waves...
Ukraine Imbroglio
By: Harsh Behere | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Feb , 2022
Chamberlain: “Why have you massed so many troops at the border?”. Hitler: “In case of a provocation”. C: “But what if there is no provocation”. H: “How can there not be a provocation with so many...