Articles By Lt Gen (Dr) JS Bajwa
Is India Finally Emerging: From its Strategic Reticence?
By: Lt Gen (Dr) JS Bajwa | Issue: Vol. 35.4 Oct-Dec 2020 | Date: 07 Dec , 2020
“The world is a gymnasium where nations come to make themselves strong.” — Swami Vivekananda Ancient Indian identity was forged by distinct geographical reality that insulated India from...
Did a Global Pandemic Generate a Global Pandemonium?
By: Lt Gen (Dr) JS Bajwa | Issue: Vol. Apr-Jun 2020, (35.2) & Jul-Sep 2020, (35.3) | Date: 26 Sep , 2020
“The state… always feels itself weak if there is another that is stronger. Its security and preservation demand that it make itself more powerful than its neighbours. It can increase, nourish...
China’s Peaceful Rise: A Hypothetical Scenario
By: Lt Gen (Dr) JS Bajwa | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Sep , 2020
“Our path is different from both the paths of Germany in World War I and Germany and Japan in World War II, when they tried to overhaul the world political landscape by way of aggressive wars....
1965 Indo-Pak War: Victory or Stalemate?
By: Lt Gen (Dr) JS Bajwa | Issue: Vol. 30.3 Jul-Sep 2015 | Date: 20 Aug , 2020
“We live in a wondrous time, in which the strong is weak because of his scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity.” —German Chancellor, Otto von Bismarck. Fifty years ago,...
LAC: Fast Forward to the Summer of 2021
By: Lt Gen (Dr) JS Bajwa | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 Jul , 2020
The 1962 Chinese attack was – “To demolish India’s arrogance and illusions of grandeur. China had taught India a lesson and would do so again and again.” – Chinese President Liu Shaoqi to...
China: Threat or Challenge?
By: Lt Gen (Dr) JS Bajwa | Issue: Book Excerpt: China: Threat or Challenge? | Date: 17 Jun , 2020
China’s sustained double digit economic growth over three decades transformed China. It has lifted 700 million Chinese people out poverty – an unparalleled feat in human history. Its economic...
Understanding the Political Perspectives of the Jammu and Kashmir War (1947-48)
By: Lt Gen (Dr) JS Bajwa | Date: 28 Feb , 2020
“On 12th and 13th December 1948, the Indian Air Force bombed a Pakistani military stores and ammunition dump at Palak, situated between Kotli and Mirpur. These activities appeared to have added...
India Under a Hybrid Attack?!
By: Lt Gen (Dr) JS Bajwa | Issue: Vol. 35.1 Jan-Mar 2020 | Date: 11 Feb , 2020
“Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent’s fate.” —Sun Tzu In...
A Paradgim Shift in India’s Security Strategy
By: Lt Gen (Dr) JS Bajwa | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 Dec , 2019
In the wee hours of the morning of February 26, 2019, India reacted to the Pulwama suicide attack on the Indian Security Forces with a “pre-emptive strike on terrorist targets” by the Indian...
Is the World Coming Apart at the Seams?
By: Lt Gen (Dr) JS Bajwa | Issue: Vol. 34.4 Oct-Dec 2019 | Date: 08 Dec , 2019
“The darker and bigger the cloud, the more brilliant is the silver lining.” — Hope is not lost. The recent proceedings at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) where the Pakistani Prime...
As India Consolidates its Comprehensive Power
By: Lt Gen (Dr) JS Bajwa | Issue: Vol. 34.3 Jul-Sep 2019 | Date: 02 Sep , 2019
“If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there”, said the Cheshire Cat to Alice. — Alice in Wonderland, By Lewis Carrol August 5th 2019, fortunately Indian Government...
Article 370 and Pakistan’s Nuclear Bombast
By: Lt Gen (Dr) JS Bajwa | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Aug , 2019
“The world will not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried. Most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita; Vishnu is trying to persuade...
Rebuttal to article 'Why India's announcement on Kashmir is such a serious...
By: Lt Gen (Dr) JS Bajwa | Date: 12 Aug , 2019
The article “Why India’s announcement on Kashmir is such a serious mistake” authored by Tim Willasey-Wilsey (former senior British diplomat who worked in Southern Africa, Central America and...
Two Year Membership of UNSC: Euphoria Over Crumbs!!!
By: Lt Gen (Dr) JS Bajwa | Issue: Interview in www.sify.com | Date: 01 Jul , 2019
There has been much euphoria in the media over India being backed by 55 members of the UN for a seat as a non-permanent member of the UNSC for which votes will be cast in June 2020 for a two year...
Securing India’s Rightful Place in the Comity of Nations
By: Lt Gen (Dr) JS Bajwa | Issue: Vol. 34.2 Apr-Jun 2019 | Date: 14 Jun , 2019
By end-May, a new government will be in power in India. Evidently it will be a NDA government with reinforced mandate in power for the 17th Lok Sabha. However, the wounded opposition is likely to...
World sans a Global Policeman: Turmoil as US exits
By: Lt Gen (Dr) JS Bajwa | Issue: Vol. 34.1 Jan-Mar 2019 | Date: 02 Mar , 2019
“It is the policy of the United States to seek and support the growth of democratic movements and institutions in every nation and culture, with the ultimate goal of ending tyranny in our...
Kashmir – Let Truth Be Told
By: Lt Gen (Dr) JS Bajwa | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 Feb , 2019
“Nero fiddled while Rome burnt.” In July of the year 64 CE (Common Era) a great fire ravaged Rome for six days destroying seventy percent of the City and leaving half its population homeless....
An Aggressive Irredentist: China Expanding Its Geography
By: Lt Gen (Dr) JS Bajwa | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Jan , 2019
Two decades into the twenty first century, and here we have the head of a huge state issuing threats to a tiny nation off its eastern coast that it would not hesitate to use armed force to...
Defending India: Buying Land for Defence Works!!
By: Lt Gen (Dr) JS Bajwa | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 Dec , 2018
A quaint situation exists in the State of Arunachal Pradesh. Land required by the security forces for construction of defence works which include bunkers, firing positions and tracks is to be...
Resizing the Army: One Size that Doesn’t Fit All
By: Lt Gen (Dr) JS Bajwa | Issue: Vol. 33.4 Oct-Dec 2018 | Date: 22 Nov , 2018
“It is too true, however disgraceful it may be to human nature, that nations in general will make war whenever they have a prospect of getting anything by it.” — John Jay, The Federalist...