Articles in Issues
Tough Road Ahead for Taliban
By: Manish Rai | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Sep , 2021
The Taliban after much wait has announced its 33-member interim cabinet. This new government is exclusively Taliban, and almost all the ministers are of Pashtun ethnicity. Women have no positions...
US Boots-on-the-Ground in India?: Focus on Afghanistan
By: Maj Gen S G Vombatkere | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Sep , 2021
The US Administration is embarrassed by its capitulation to Taliban (signing a peace treaty with Taliban at Doha, February 2020, to allow withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan), the sudden...
Was the Prospect of Nobel Peace Prize behind sell-out of 93,000 Pak...
By: Sudip Talukdar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 Sep , 2021
The left liberals and the anti-nationals greeted the attack on Balakot with howls of disbelief and their usual rants about ‘proof,’ questioning the veracity of the forthright Indian...
China’s Rising Shenanigans Sprouts AUKUS
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Sep , 2021
With signs of Beijing seemingly escaping from releasing the Wuhan Virus, China’s aggressive moves are on the rise, buoyed by the America’s humiliation in Afghanistan. Beijing has brushed...
Durand Line not Recognised by Taliban Causing Clash with Pakistan
By: Col (Dr) PK Vasudeva | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Sep , 2021
The taking over of Afghanistan by the deadly terrorist organisation Taliban on 15 August 2021, reverabrated with celebration in Pakistan. However, Pakistani officials fear that once again the...
The Re-Incarnation of INS Vikrant
By: Dr Krishna S Dhir, PhD | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Sep , 2021
Often, a newborn is given the name of a parent, or a grandparent or a great-grandparent, and so on. In India, a number of kings have been named Vikramaditya. In the western cultures similar...
The world must realise that Pakistan is a rogue state
By: Col Jaibans Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Sep , 2021
The 9/11 anniversary this year has brought in its wake old memories and new horrors. After two decades and Trillions of Dollars down the drain the world is back to square one, the difference being...
1962 War: Battle of Chusul
By: Col Bhaskar Sarkar | Issue: Book Excerpt: Outstanding Victories of the Indian Army | Date: 16 Sep , 2021
Background to the Battle The war with China in 1962 is remembered as a national debacle and a litany of disasters. Under Pandit Nehru as Prime Minister, the Indian Armed forces were totally...
China’s Military Drill in Tibet a Warning to India: Experts
By: J. M. Phelps | Issue: Courtesy: The Epoch Times | Date: 15 Sep , 2021
The Chinese regime’s recent show of military strength in Tibet was an attempt to intimidate neighboring India amid heightened tensions, according to two former high-ranking military officers....
The Quandary in Counterterrorism
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Sep , 2021
Calls for the world to unite against terrorism in all forms in bilateral and multilateral forums are not new. India has been suffering cross border terrorism past three decades plus. Forbes had...
A Costly Afghan Mistake
By: Slavisha Batko Milacic | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Sep , 2021
The Taliban’s quick seizure of Afghanistan is an exact replay of what happened there 25 years ago. The, radical Islamists have managed to gain control over the entire territory of the country,...
Beyond ‘Wait and Watch’ in Afghanistan: Global Implications
By: Maj Gen SB Asthana | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Sep , 2021
Backdrop Taliban supported by Pakistan took over Afghanistan by force, amidst an embarrassing, botched withdrawal of US and allies, posing a façade of negotiated takeover. With announcement of a...
It’s Time Pakistan Either ‘Reforms’ or Finds Another ‘Whipping Boy’
By: Nilesh Kunwar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Sep , 2021
Ever since its creation, Pakistan has found a convenient ‘whipping boy’ in India for two reasons. One, by portraying its Eastern neighbour as a ‘Hindu nation’,it becomes very easy to...
India as Humanitarian Partner of Afghanistan Must Reach out to Afghan People...
By: Neelapu Shanti | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Sep , 2021
Sadly, Afghan people once again facing undue hardships with the unceasing political tension attributed by conflict and a constant fierce challenge is characterized by the recent change of the new...
1971 War on the Eastern Front: Observations, Comments and Lessons
By: Gen KV Krishna Rao | Issue: Book Excerpt: Prepare or Perish: A Study of National Security | Date: 09 Sep , 2021
Grand Strategy Pakistan, at its creation, comprised the Western and Eastern Wings, separated by a distance of about 1600 kilometres. For the survival of Pakistan, it was essential that both the...
Battle for Panjshir
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Sep , 2021
The Taliban claimed on September 6 that they have captured Panjshir Valley and overcome the anti-Taliban forces of the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan (NRFA) led by Ahmad Massoud. The...
With the Taliban on Its Side, Beijing Mulls Making India...
By: Hemant Adlakha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Sep , 2021
Pitch As China gears up for “seizing the golden opportunity” in Afghanistan under the Taliban, a key component of Beijing’s Afghan strategy is to render the Indian role there...
Is India doomed to being a Soft State?
By: Sudip Talukdar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Sep , 2021
Is India doomed to being a soft state, too disinclined to derive lessons from serial blunders committed during the more than 70 years of independence, with eyes wide open? The question keeps...
Battle of Basantar 1971 War
By: Col Bhaskar Sarkar | Issue: Book Excerpt: Outstanding Victories of the Indian Army | Date: 07 Sep , 2021
Background to the Battle As the situation kept deteriorating in East Pakistan, Pakistan’s President, General Yahya Khan threatened India with total war. On November 30, 1971, the Government of...
What Should India do to Protect its Interest in Afghanistan
By: Deepak Kumar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Sep , 2021
Afghanistan geo-strategically is extremely important country for India. To reach Central Asian Republics and counterbalancing the influence of China and Pakistan in North-West Frontier region,...