Articles in Issues
Indian Brand of ‘Islam’ is the solution
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Mar , 2019
In 2018, 44 militants were killed in the Shopian district in Kashmir. BurhanWani, killed in 2016 also had Shopian connection. The district is prodigious in producing jihadis as well as apples. The...
The F-16 vs Mig-21 Bison: More Questions than Answers
By: Air Marshal Harish Masand | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Mar , 2019
The analysis of the much-reported dogfight between the IAF and the PAF on 27th February as a fall-out of the Balakot strike the previous morning has thrown up a number of theories, conjectures and...
Operation ‘Sunrise’
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Mar , 2019
News of India conducting a ‘Third Surgical Strike’ in Myanmar has suddenly exploded in media on March 14-15. Over the last three years, all Indian military operations are prefixed with...
Is China preparing for a conflict with India?
By: Gp Capt Ravinder Singh Chhatwal | Issue: Vol. 34.1 Jan-Mar 2019 | Date: 19 Mar , 2019
The Indian armed forces need not match the numerical superiority of the PLA in terms of manpower and equipment. There is no need for India to get into an arms race with China and match its...
Jaw-Jawing Special Forces
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Mar , 2019
Post the Pulwama car-bombing of February 14 and IAF airstrikes on Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) terror camps inside Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (POK) and Pakistan on February 27, the media exploded with...
China does it Again
By: Brig Anil Gupta | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Mar , 2019
The nation yet again is busy discussing China’s decision to block efforts at the United Nations to ban Jaish chief Masood Azhar for the fourth consecutive time. The discussion appears to be...
The Joint Venture for AK-203: The Long Term Challenge of Indigenisation
By: S.N. Misra | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Mar , 2019
The Army has been looking for a modern assault rifle to replace the INSAS which was inducted in 1994. The army has been generally dissatisfied with the rifle design of INSAS because of its...
China Chooses to Stand with Terrorists for the Fourth Time
By: Maj Gen SB Asthana | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 Mar , 2019
It’s not a big surprise for any strategist that China has blocked the bid to have Jaish-e-Mohammed chief Masood Azhar designated a global terrorist for the fourth time. China has repeated the...
A Paradgim Shift in India’s Security Strategy
By: Lt Gen (Dr) JS Bajwa | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 Mar , 2019
In the wee hours of the morning of February 26, 2019, India reacted to the Pulwama suicide attack on the Indian Security Forces with a “pre-emptive strike on terrorist targets” by the Indian...
No More Unlikely Friends, Russia building bridges with Pakistan
By: Neetu Arpan Grover | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Mar , 2019
Never say never in international politics because only national interest is paramount, friends and adversaries change accordingly. Russia is making a comeback to South Asia with a gradual...
Anti India sentiments serve Pakistan’s interests
By: Farooq Wani | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Mar , 2019
Politics makes strange bedfellows while destiny imposes difficult neighborhoods. The two nation theory being followed by Pakistan survives on spewing venom at its secular, democratic and...
Airstrikes wipe out decades of cowardice and humiliation
By: Sudip Talukdar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Mar , 2019
Fast paced events have overtaken the country, quite unprecedented in its post independence historical sweep, such as the devastating air strike on Balakot, the nerve-centre of Jaish-e-Mohammed’s...
Pulwama-Balakot can be defining moment for India in a long drawn out war
By: Commodore C Uday Bhaskar (Retd.) | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Monitor | Date: 11 Mar , 2019
The grenade attack in Jammu city on Thursday (March 7) that killed two people and injured more than 40 has been attributed to the Hizbul Mujahedin and comes a few weeks after the Pulwama attack....
Balakot: Why was the Air Strike Successful
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Mar , 2019
In the year 1989, we freed five jihadis in exchange for one Rubbaiya. Ten years later in 1999, we traded 160 Indian citizens for three jihadis. This reflects the trajectory of global jihad in...
Pakistan: Reeling under the impact of self created fault lines
By: Col Jaibans Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Mar , 2019
The high tension created by the face-off between India and Pakistan post the barbaric terrorist attack on the Indian Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) convoy at Pulwama, Kashmir, in...
What Beyond Balakot?
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Mar , 2019
The unprecedented use of image of Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthman, a serving IAF officer, indicates the low to which the ruling political party is prepared to stoop. This too after the...
‘Out of box options’ needed to deal with Pakistan’s Proxy War, post...
By: Maj Gen SB Asthana | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Mar , 2019
Backdrop India has suffered enough of Proxy War since last 30 years, which continues in Imran’s ‘Naya Pakistan’ with same vigor as hitherto fore. The surgical strikes launched in 2016 post...
The long shadow of Taliban hangs over Afghanistan
By: Sarbhanu Nath | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Monitor | Date: 09 Mar , 2019
One fact stands out in a glaring manner in the peace talks being conducted between the Taliban and Afghan and United States envoys – the Afghan government is conspicuously absent from the...
Kunan-Pushpora Resurfaces with Crackdown on Separatists
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Mar , 2019
Concurrent to the crackdown on the separatists and Jamaat-e-Islami in the Kashmir Valley, the fictitious case of Kunan-Pushpora mass rape case has resurfaced. This could be due to instructions...
Afghanistan: Thinking in Terms of Hindu Kush
By: S Rajasimman | Issue: Vol. 34.1 Jan-Mar 2019 | Date: 08 Mar , 2019
It would be in strategic error if India considers the myriad of political events occurring within Afghanistan as subject matter of its foreign policy. The security situation in Afghanistan has...
