Articles By Dr Rajasimman Sundaram
The Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF) and the decline of US Leadership
By: Dr Rajasimman Sundaram | Issue: Vol. 38.1, Jan-Mar 2023 | Date: 01 May , 2023
The Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF) Having first been conceived in October 2021, and launched in May 2022, the United States (US) Trade Representative Katherine Tai and Secretary of...
Political Settlement of the Ukraine Crisis: China’s Ambivalence Prevails
By: Dr Rajasimman Sundaram | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 Feb , 2023
Coinciding with the anniversary of Russia-Ukraine Warthat has left at least 8,006 civilians dead and 13,287 injured over the past 12 months[1], in addition to the numerous lives previously lost...
India-US Military Exercises and China’s Woes: Stop Reacting, Start Responding
By: Dr Rajasimman Sundaram | Issue: Vol. 37.4, Oct-Dec 2022 | Date: 05 Jan , 2023
The state of Sino-Indian bilateral relations according to India’s Foreign Minister and former Foreign Secretary Dr Subrahmanyam Jaishankar is ‘not normal’. Even while the militaries of both...
USS Connecticut (SSN-22): I am not that Innocent!
By: Dr Rajasimman Sundaram | Issue: Vol. 36.4, Oct-Dec 2021 | Date: 14 Jan , 2022
A continental power adheres to a “closed-sea” concept, while a maritime power adheres to an “open-sea” concept. This difference also informs the naval strategy chosen by both, a maritime...
India must shed its Good Boy Image
By: Dr Rajasimman Sundaram | Issue: Vol. 36.2, Apr-Jun 2021 | Date: 05 Jul , 2021
In this game of power, a nation that is able to quickly arrest the spread of virus within its own territory as well as research, develop and manufacture the vaccines, wins. For this to happen, a...
BRICS: The Story So Far
By: Dr Rajasimman Sundaram | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Nov , 2020
The idea of BRICS group of nations as originally hypothesized was based on the future potential of its collective economic performance that may exceed that of G-7 nations (Jin O’Neill; 2001). It...
The Myth of China
By: Dr Rajasimman Sundaram | Issue: Vol. Apr-Jun 2020, (35.2) & Jul-Sep 2020, (35.3) | Date: 11 Nov , 2020
Myth attempts to capture in terms conceivable to humans some of the indeterminate qualities of the divine unknown. Hence myth is something that is understood as – “does not tell truths, but...
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Approaches to Carrier Warfare: A Comparative Perspective [Part-I]
By: Dr Rajasimman Sundaram | Issue: Vol. 35.1 Jan-Mar 2020 | Date: 08 Nov , 2020
Approaches to carrier warfare and the associated operational art vary from navy to navy. A handful of nations employ aircraft carrier in their naval fleet, the latest being the People’s...
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China Task Force [CFT] Act: The US Goes Bonkers Over China
By: Dr Rajasimman Sundaram | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Nov , 2020
Introduction The United States strategic expectation that China will one day adapt to the enshrined values of the western world order –freedom, democracy, and human rights and support a...
Smoke! Smoke on the Horizon: CNS Shandong (山东)
By: Dr Rajasimman Sundaram | Issue: Vol. 35.1 Jan-Mar 2020 | Date: 03 Nov , 2020
On December 17, 2019, China became the first country in Asia to have commissioned the CNS Shandong (山东) – an independently designed and built aircraft carrier since World War II. After India,...
Is the QUAD Winding back the Clock of History?
By: Dr Rajasimman Sundaram | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Oct , 2020
While the stated strategic objective of the Quadrilateral Strategic Dialogue [QUAD – Japan, the US, Australia and India] is to safeguard a free, open, rule based order in the Indo-Pacific region...
The Five Point Consensus – The Calm before the Storm?
By: Dr Rajasimman Sundaram | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Sep , 2020
The re-establishment of peace and tranquility along the Sino-Indian border based on the joint communiqué agreed between the foreign ministers of India and China on 09 September along the...
Indian Chess is Not the Chinese Game of Weiqi
By: Dr Rajasimman Sundaram | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Sep , 2020
Your deployment was as wild geese in flight – nobody understood it, until the cub was caught in the tiger’s den, and all were shocked. [Pan Zhao] Introduction: The situation along the...
India is not Bharat: A Note to Chinese Strategic Thinkers!
By: Dr Rajasimman Sundaram | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Aug , 2020
Of all the strategic variables – intention, capability, objective, strategy, tactics, doctrines, domestic and foreign policy, leadership etc – it is geography that remains a constant – hence...
The Concept of Whole Situation and China’s Strategic Decision Making
By: Dr Rajasimman Sundaram | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 Jun , 2020
To be attacked by the Enemy is not a bad Thing but a good thing! — Mao Zedong 26 May, 1939 Introduction: Is it Land? Despite all the noise made over the Indian media, the fact that – India’s...
India’s DBO Advanced Landing Ground : A Military Initiative, Not Political!
By: Dr Rajasimman Sundaram | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Jun , 2020
The recent face-off between Indian and Chinese troops along it’s yet to be demarcated land border in Ladakh was not a political outcome, but rooted in logic derived from military science. This...
COVID-19 Outbreak in China –An Intent Gone Wrong?
By: Dr Rajasimman Sundaram | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Mar , 2020
“A catastrophe waiting to happen has now happened “said Dr. Francis Boyle[1], drafter of the US Bio-weapons Act [Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989] and author of Bio warfare and...
BRICS must define the scope of the Upcoming War
By: Dr Rajasimman Sundaram | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Jan , 2020
Assassination of Qasem Soleimani [the head of Iran’s elite Quds military force] under direct orders from the President of the United States is likely to further escalate into a military conflict...
The Relevance of Geography and History in the Maritime Domain
By: Dr Rajasimman Sundaram | Issue: Vol. 34.3 Jul-Sep 2019 | Date: 06 Oct , 2019
Command Her! If you can’t command her, control her. If you can’t control her, dominate her. If you can’t dominate her, maintain presence and deny her to others. Oh! The sea is a wild child!...
From Teaching to Learning a Lesson: China’s Nightmare in Pakistan
By: Dr Rajasimman Sundaram | Issue: Vol. 34.1 Jan-Mar 2019 | Date: 16 Apr , 2019
China’s ambitious Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) project, a sub-set of its China Dream and centered on its flagship project – the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is likely to help...