Articles By Sumantra Maitra
Probability Game about War between China and USA in Asia
By: Sumantra Maitra | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 18 Nov , 2017
Not reading Thucydides is a mistake, misreading Thucydides is fatal Ever since the curtain of the 19th party congress in China, there has been a flurry of contradictory political analysis on the...
Military Modernization of India Must Include an Urgent Naval Buildup
By: Sumantra Maitra | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 31 Oct , 2017
In a recent under-reported news a pair of Chinese warships sailed up in River Thames. This is the first time Chinese warships made port calls in Britain, ad post Brexit Britain seeks closer...
China’s Naval Ambition Needs to be Balanced Urgently
By: Sumantra Maitra | Date: 22 Aug , 2017
Two key events drew two key but different reactions recently. The first one was predictable. China recently launched the first Type 55 Destroyer. [i]It is China’s first heavy destroyer, and...
Military “Regime Change” Plan for Iran is Insanity
By: Sumantra Maitra | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 10 Jul , 2017
The CIA recently came out with the complete documents of the coup in Iran. As US is facing a riptide of a debate about foreign influence in another sovereign state’s domestic policy, the timing...
The Maritime Balance of Power Slowly Shifts
By: Sumantra Maitra | Date: 21 May , 2017
The naval balance of power slowly shifts in the Indo-Pacific region, especially in the Indian ocean, as China launches its first domestically built, and the second aircraft carrier of its navy....
Western Military Intervention Won’t Help Syria
By: Sumantra Maitra | Date: 06 May , 2017
The drums of Western military intervention in Syria started banging again in Liberal analytical circles, as renowned voices started calling for another middle east intervention in the West....
Hybrid Warfare and the New Normal: Criteria and Retaliatory Threshold
By: Sumantra Maitra | Date: 10 Mar , 2017
As Russian involvement and covert interference arguably increases in US and European democratic processes, and with the ever-increasing chances of open conflict in Eastern Europe, the focus on...
Assessment: Russian Military Strategy, Operational Tactics and Objective in...
By: Sumantra Maitra | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 24 Jan , 2017
Russian military intervention in Syria started around September 2015, after an official request from the Syria’s Bashar Al-Assad government. A revanchist Russia, even with a stagnated...
What Are The Options For India Vis-À-Vis Sino-Japanese Rivalry?
By: Sumantra Maitra | Date: 06 Sep , 2016
Credit goes to Mr Shinzo Abe, as he drove his liberal party to a second straight victory in Japan’s elections. When in 2012, Abe first won, he came on a platform of plain economic realities that...
Obama, Vietnam, China and the Theory of Balancing of Power and War
By: Sumantra Maitra | Date: 01 Jul , 2016
China warned Obama, on lifting his arms embargo of Vietnam, a historical move given the recent geopolitical situation in South China Sea. This came a day after the US lifted a decades-old arms...
Hope for Sino-Indian Multilateral Progress Evident, But Major Concerns Remain
By: Sumantra Maitra | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 05 May , 2016
It has been an interesting couple of weeks between India and China. The Chinese finance minister Lou Jiwei met with Indian finance minister Arun Jaitley in Washington at the sidelines of the...