Articles By RSN Singh
China becoming a superpower or just a regional player?
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Book Excerpt: Asian Strategy and Military Perspective | Date: 05 Jan , 2015
The end of the Cold War in 1989, and the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, opened up strategic opportunities for China. As per Chinese perceptions, the era of bipolarity had given way to a...
Threat Perception of India
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Book Excerpt: Asian Strategy and Military Perspective | Date: 26 Dec , 2014
Very few countries in the world are beset with as many hostile or uncomfortable neighbours as India. With its two neighbours China and Pakistan, it has a post-independence history of wars and the...
Sardar Patel's Letter to Jawaharlal Nehru on Tibet
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Book Excerpt: The Unmaking of Nepal | Date: 31 Oct , 2014
My dear Jawaharlal, Ever since my return from Ahmedabad and after the Cabinet meeting the same day which I had to attend at practically fifteen minutes’ notice and for which I regret I was not...
Why ISIS should torment Omar Abdullah?
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Oct , 2014
On October 10, masked men hoisted the ISIS flag in Srinagar’s Jamia Masjid. This incident followed the Friday prayers. A similar incident had taken place on October 6, wherein some youth waved...
Pakistan was designed for proxy war
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Oct , 2014
…Jawaharlal Nehru had referred to a pamphlet written by the former Chief of General Staff of Pakistani Army in his address to the Cabinet’s Defence Committee meeting on the issue of the...
But for China!
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Oct , 2014
The decade of 50s was characterized by romanticisation of communism in India. Such was the romance that many leaders of the post-Independence dispensation, most of who claimed to have made huge...
China's Threat Perception
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Book Excerpt: Asian Strategy and Military Perspective | Date: 17 Sep , 2014
Ancient China, was unparalleled in matters of strategic thinking, defence technology and organisation of Armed Forces, but became extremely inward looking by the 16th century, and was thus...
Israel's Threat Perception
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Book Excerpt: Asian Strategy and Military Perspective | Date: 10 Sep , 2014
Israel’s geo-political location is a security nightmare for Israeli defence planners, given the hostile or potentially belligerent neighbourhood on each of its flanks. Nevertheless, for the US...
Defence Industry of Pakistan
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Book Excerpt: Asian Strategy and Military Perspective | Date: 30 Aug , 2014
After partition, Pakistan did not inherit any military production facilities. In 1951, the Pakistan Ordnance Factory was established at Wah cantonment to produce small arms, ammunition and...
China's Ballistic Missile Programme & Its Defence Industry
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Book Excerpt: Asian Strategy and Military Perspective | Date: 14 Aug , 2014
The ballistic missile capability that China had acquired was in evidence in the 1960s when it had deployed DF-1 (conventionally armed Short Range Ballistic Missile – SRBM), DF-2 (CCS-I Medium...
Nepal: The ticking time-bomb
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Vol 24.2 Apr-Jun 2009 | Date: 04 Aug , 2014
Nepal is at a critical crossroad; in fact the rebirth of the country as a new nation-state is in question. To assess the evolving situation, I recently undertook an extensive tour of the country....
Ballistic Missiles and NBC Weapon Programme of North Korea
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Book Excerpt: Asian Strategy and Military Perspective | Date: 04 Jan , 2013
North Korea’s missile development programme began in the 1970s and is totally predicated on reverse engineering. To begin with, it reverse engineered Frog-5 missiles and Soviet made Scud-B...
Is Colonel Purohit guilty?
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Vol. 23.4 Oct-Dec 2008 | Date: 18 Jul , 2012
The article was written one month prior to 26/11 and was published in Indian Defence Review issue No. 23.4 (Oct-Dec 2008) under the the title “Spare the Army“. Going by the selective and flip-flop...
The Talibanization of Kashmir
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Jul , 2012
The threat to Sikhs for conversion to Islam has upset the Hurriat leaders, both the Geelani and Umar Farooq factions. They have conveniently blamed the Indian intelligence agencies for this new...
Maoists' Final Assault on Democracy
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 May , 2012
An analysis of recent events related to Maoist terrorism shows that the four-decades-old phenomenon has entered its most dangerous phase. The abduction of two Italian nationals, Paolo Bosusco and...
Iran's NBC and Missile Programme
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Book Excerpt: Asian Strategy and Military Perspective | Date: 09 Apr , 2012
Iran embarked on a comprehensive missile programme during the Iran-Iraq War. During the post war period, it has made a determined bid to enhance its missile arsenal and capabilities by reaching...
Strategic Significance of Maldives
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Mar , 2012
Strategically significant and geopolitically sensitive, Maldives, a chain of 1192 islands 199 of which are inhabited and home to 3,15,000 people, has recently been brutalized by violence and coup,...
India Losing War Against Terrorism
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Feb , 2012
The desperation to equate Pakistan sponsored terror with so-called ‘Hindu Terror’ or ‘Saffron Terror’ is largely motivated by selfish considerations of very few at the cost of the nation....
Punjab's Pakistan
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Vol 22.4 Oct-Dec 2007 | Date: 13 Nov , 2011
The part that constitutes the Punjab province in Pakistan, like other provinces of Sindh, NWFP and Balochistan, were not enthusiastic about the concept of Pakistan. It was much later, in the early...
Convergence of Terror
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Nov , 2011
The insurgencies that impacted the Indian landscape till early this decade were generally in isolation. Though, they, like all insurgencies had external links, but the internal linkages between...