Articles By Lt Gen Kamal Davar (Retd)
Managing Dragon's Consistent Perfidy
By: Lt Gen Kamal Davar (Retd) | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 Dec , 2022
The phenomenal rise in the past two decades or so of the global hegemon, China, is unquestionably one of the major challenges confronting peace loving and international laws-abiding nations...
Gearing up for the Emerging Global Order
By: Lt Gen Kamal Davar (Retd) | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Jul , 2022
It will be stating the obvious that in the last two and half years, the world, owing to the China-originated COVID 19 witnessed a catastrophic economic upheaval and social disruptions never ...
Re-Emergence of Global Terror
By: Lt Gen Kamal Davar (Retd) | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 Aug , 2021
That Terrorism is the scourge of the world is a harsh truism of the times is beyond dispute since the last few decades. That global challenges necessitate global solutions requires no elaboration...
The Wuhan Pneumonia and Biological Warfare
By: Lt Gen Kamal Davar (Retd) | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 Apr , 2020
An increasingly assertive China on the global stage has a more than adequate arsenal of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD). In military parlance, WMDs are weapons employed to wage nuclear, chemical...
The Super Power Buckles
By: Lt Gen Kamal Davar (Retd) | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 31 Jan , 2019
Eighteen years after the US launched the first global war on terrorism in Afghanistan, the end state desired at its commencement by the US and its Afghan supporters for this impoverished and...
Military Diplomacy: A Vital Tool for Furthering National Interests
By: Lt Gen Kamal Davar (Retd) | Issue: Vol. 33.2 Apr-Jun 2018 | Date: 17 Apr , 2018
“While the civil bureaucracy and the political leadership in our MOD continue to constrain the Indian military’s engagement with the world, China is consciously promoting it.” — C Raja...
India should be prepared to fight its own battles
By: Lt Gen Kamal Davar (Retd) | Date: 02 Jan , 2018
With the call that “America is in the game and America is going to win” strongly reminiscent of his populist campaign speeches, US President Donald Trump launched his first National...
India should not Gloat over a Moderate Tactical Success
By: Lt Gen Kamal Davar (Retd) | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Monitor | Date: 26 Oct , 2016
The last three weeks may not have been historically momentous, as some in the establishment would like us to believe, but certainly India has been in the news, both within and globally, and more...
Afghanistan: In the Grip of Spiraling Instability
By: Lt Gen Kamal Davar (Retd) | Date: 28 Jul , 2016
Violence-stricken Afghanistan continues to find itself being helplessly crushed under the weight of spiraling political instability and mindless killings, which are often sponsored from across the...
Thwarting the Threat of Nuclear Terrorism: India can lead the way
By: Lt Gen Kamal Davar (Retd) | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Monitor | Date: 09 Apr , 2016
‘Global challenges demand global solutions’ is an oft quoted truism, parroted by many global leaders, but on which there is hardly any display of concerted action. Be it the implementation of...
Is India wasting its energies in totally unproductive and self-destructive...
By: Lt Gen Kamal Davar (Retd) | Date: 19 Mar , 2016
At the cusp of becoming a reckonable global player, India, relatively a young nation but importantly, the inheritor of an ancient and a great civilization, displays an uncanny propensity for...
2016: Year of reckoning for Modi government
By: Lt Gen Kamal Davar (Retd) | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Monitor | Date: 04 Jan , 2016
Elected governments for the tall claims they make to their overly aspirational electorates are expected fulfill millions of promises. This natural yearning of the people in any vibrant democracy...
Time running out for Afghanistan
By: Lt Gen Kamal Davar (Retd) | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Monitor | Date: 24 Oct , 2015
War ravaged Afghanistan, the “graveyard of empires”, continues to descend into growing political instability and recurrent fratricidal conflict. That the overall security situation in the...
Pakistan: Back to square one
By: Lt Gen Kamal Davar (Retd) | Date: 23 Dec , 2014
It was indeed a carnage, rarely witnessed in recent human history, when more than 145 innocent children and their teachers were massacred by deranged monsters belonging to the terror outfit...
Tackling the LWE Menace in India
By: Lt Gen Kamal Davar (Retd) | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Nov , 2014
“Of all kinds of dangers, internal dangers should be got rid of first, for it is internal troubles, like the fear from a lurking snake, that are more serious than external troubles.” —...
Combating Left-Wing Extremism
By: Lt Gen Kamal Davar (Retd) | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 01 Jun , 2013
Among the security perils that afflict India internally, the gravest and most alarmingly burgeoning is left-wing extremism (LWE), commonly dubbed as the Naxal-Maoist threat. Alluded to as being...
Next Generation Defence Reforms
By: Lt Gen Kamal Davar (Retd) | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Aug , 2012
The noted American strategic analyst George Tanham succinctly expressed some years back that “Indian elites show little evidence of having thought coherently and systematically about...
China’s growing assertiveness and shaping the Indian response
By: Lt Gen Kamal Davar (Retd) | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Jul , 2012
“Indian elites show little evidence of having thought coherently and systematically about strategy.” – George Tanham Nearly 200 years back, Napoleon had prophetically stated that “ let...
Red Dragon in India’s North West
By: Lt Gen Kamal Davar (Retd) | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Jul , 2012
Defence Secretary level talks between India and Pakistan held on 11-12 June 2012 at Islamabad for resolving the Siachen issue ended on expected lines with both nations sticking to their often...
The snows of hope
By: Lt Gen Kamal Davar (Retd) | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Nov , 2011
Notwithstanding the separatists and their masters, Pakistan’s infamous Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) engineered grenade blasts in the last month, come the next few weeks, the beautiful...