Articles By Col (Dr) P K Vasudeva
Defence Budget 2019-20 Not Based on Threat Perception
By: Col (Dr) P K Vasudeva | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Feb , 2019
Surprisingly, not considering the threat perception the defence budget for the fiscal 2019-2020 has been merely increased by 6.87 per cent to Rs. 3,18,93 crore against last year’s allocation of...
Is Indian Defence Preparedness Adequate in 2019?
By: Col (Dr) P K Vasudeva | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 Jan , 2019
India is the world’s sixth-largest economy by nominal GDP and the third largest by purchasing power parity (PPP). Since 2014 India’s economy has been the world’s fastest growing, surpassing China....
Situation in J&K: Serious but not insurmountable
By: Col (Dr) P K Vasudeva | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Dec , 2018
The Kashmir conflict is a territorial conflict primarily between India and Pakistan, having started just after 1947 partition. India and Pakistan have fought three wars over Kashmir –...
Maldives gets pro-people and pro-India government under Ibrahim Solih
By: Col (Dr) P K Vasudeva | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 Nov , 2018
After five years of strong-armed domestically political dissent rule by a government under Abdulla Yameen, the Maldives has now put a pro-people and pro-Indian administration in power, under...
Revival of National Security Council (Un) Justified
By: Col (Dr) P K Vasudeva | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Oct , 2018
The decision to make National Security Adviser Ajit Kumar Doval as the chairman of the Strategic Policy Group (SPG) of the beleaguered and unwieldy National Security Council (NSC) has surprised...
Modi-Putin summit will be a game changer
By: Col (Dr) P K Vasudeva | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Oct , 2018
After wide-ranging talks between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Vladimir Putin, Indian and Russia on October 5, signed $5 billion five S-400 Triumf missile defence system deal in New...
Situation in J&K improving however, normalcy is still a distant dream
By: Col (Dr) P K Vasudeva | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Sep , 2018
Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) witnessed a hike of more than 166 per cent in civilian causalities in 2017 from a year ago, but security forces were successful in killing 42 per cent more terrorists...
Cadre Review: Lean and Mean Indian Army
By: Col (Dr) P K Vasudeva | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Sep , 2018
The Chief of the Army Staff (COAS) General Bipin Rawat on June 21 ordered a long awaited cadre review of the 1.2 million strong Indian Army to cover wide ranging issues including cutting of...
Can the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation bring India and Pakistan closer?
By: Col (Dr) P K Vasudeva | Issue: Vol. 33.3 Jul-Sep 2018 | Date: 18 Sep , 2018
With India and Pakistan as newly incorporated members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), China is likely to face an increasing amount of divisiveness within a regional economic and...
Indo-US 2+2 Dialogue: An Analysis
By: Col (Dr) P K Vasudeva | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Sep , 2018
After cancellation twice in the last 14 months, foreign minister Sushma Swaraj and Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman held the first high-level 2+2 talks on September 6 with their US...
Karmapa’s Controversy Leads to the Dalai Lama’s Headache
By: Col (Dr) P K Vasudeva | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 Aug , 2018
In a recent statement of the 17th Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje (OTD), seen as the most influential Tibetan Buddhist religious leader after the Dalai Lama from New York conveyed to the Government...
His Holiness the Dalai Lama in the news again
By: Col (Dr) P K Vasudeva | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Aug , 2018
Surprisingly, exiled spiritual Tibetan leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama said on 8 August at an event in management institute of Goa that Partition would have been averted had Quaid-e-Azam...
US granted STA-1 status to India to strengthen defence partnership: India to...
By: Col (Dr) P K Vasudeva | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Aug , 2018
India has become the 3rd Asian country after Japan and South Korea and 37th in the world to get the Strategic Trade Authorisation-1 (STA-1) status when the US issued a federal notification on 4th...
Indo-US 2+2 Crucial Dialogue Shifted from Washington to Delhi
By: Col (Dr) P K Vasudeva | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Jul , 2018
The inaugural ‘two plus-two’ dialogue between India and the US has now shifted from Washington to Delhi. The strategic top-level talks, agreed upon by US President Donald Trump and Indian...
Major blow to Indo-US Ties
By: Col (Dr) P K Vasudeva | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Jul , 2018
The US-India two plus two dialogue (2+2 dialogue) was scheduled for July 6 and was going to be the first simultaneous meeting of Indian and American defence and external affairs ministers —...
Has the US conceded more than gained from North Korea at historic summit
By: Col (Dr) P K Vasudeva | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Jun , 2018
If there is one event in recent times that has taken the world by storm is the summit between North Korean President Kim Jong Un and his US counterpart Donald Trump at Singapore. The successful...
Indo-China informal summit creates trust and mutual understanding environment
By: Col (Dr) P K Vasudeva | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 May , 2018
India and China share very old cultural and civilisational ties. Prime Minister Narendra Modi took initiative to hold an informal summit on 28 April to 29 April at Wuhan with Chinese President Xi...
Government’s Defence Planning Committee under NSA is Old Wine in New Bottle
By: Col (Dr) P K Vasudeva | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 Apr , 2018
When the Lok Sabha elections are due in 2019, the present dispensation eyes new national security strategy under the Chairmanship of National Security Adviser (NSA) Ajit Doval known as Defence...
Indo-Iranian Relations Stepped Up
By: Col (Dr) P K Vasudeva | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Feb , 2018
Substantive discussions’ between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani during his three days visit to New Delhi in mid February have taken Indo-Iranian relations to a...
Defence Budget 2018-19 Dashes Hopes For Modernisation
By: Col (Dr) P K Vasudeva | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Feb , 2018
While the government has increased the defence budget by 5.91 per cent for FY 2018-19 to Rs 2,95,511.41 crore, the allocation is estimated at around 1.58 per cent of the GDP — the lowest since...
