Articles in Issues
Reforms in Defence Acquisition
By: Prof (Dr) SN Misra | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Jan , 2020
Defence is a strategic component of Sovereign India and the Services have the onerous responsibility to discharge this ‘integrity’ mandate. The expenditure, that the country commits, though...
Is China-Myanmar Economic Corridor turning out to be another CPEC for India?
By: Maj Gen SB Asthana | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Jan , 2020
Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Myanmar on January 18, 2020 at a time when it was struggling global criticism over its treatment of the Rohingya Muslim minority. It is learnt that the two...
De-radicalization: Chief of Defence Staff Hit the Bull’s Eye
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Jan , 2020
Gen Bipin Rawat, first Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) of India, in a function ‘Raisina Dialogue’, expressed his anguish over the radicalization in the country, which has not spared even 10 to 12...
India must help defuse Iran-US tension
By: K.N. Pandita | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 Jan , 2020
After some select Asian countries, China, India, and Pakistan achieved nuclear capability, its impact on regional strategy was obvious. Even repercussions of the neo-proliferation possibility had...
Kashmiri Pandits offered three choices by Radical Islamists
By: Col (Dr) Tej Kumar Tikoo (Retd.) | Issue: Book Excerpt: Kashmir: Its Aborigines and their Exodus | Date: 19 Jan , 2020
On Jan, 04, 1990, a local Urdu newspaper, Aftab, published a press release issued by Hizb-ul-Mujahideen, asking all Pandits to leave the Valley immediately. Al Safa, another local daily repeated...
Emerging Technologies in Contemporary Ocean Warfare
By: Abhinav Dutta | Issue: Vol. 34.3 Jul-Sep 2019 | Date: 18 Jan , 2020
It is being widely debated that the revolution in science and technology and its role in military strategy would prove to be game changers in international politics and in the dynamics of...
Kashmir: Lessons from the Rise and Fall of a Decorated Cop
By: Nilesh Kunwar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Jan , 2020
For the J&K Police, which till now was being lauded for its resolute anti-militancy operations despite being targeted by terrorists, Dy SP Davinder Singh being caught red-handed while...
Relevance of Arthashastra in the 21st Century
By: Vice Admiral MP Muralidharan | Issue: Vol. 34.4 Oct-Dec 2019 | Date: 17 Jan , 2020
There is possibly a misconception in the Western world that ancient India was ignorant of aspects such as strategy, statecraft or administration even though the Indian epics spoke of vast kingdoms...
Air-Sea Doctrine
By: Gp Capt TP Srivastava | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Jan , 2020
Marshal Lin Piao, a probable successor to Mao, had said prophetic words in the context of Indian Ocean in early 60s. He said, I quote “INDIAN OCEAN IS NOT INDIA’s OCEAN” unquote. We as a...
Defence Minister flags-off 51st K9 VAJRA-T Gun from L&T’s Armoured System
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Jan , 2020
Armoured Systems Complex is currently producing 100 ‘K9 Vajra-T’ 155 mm 52 Cal Self-propelled Tracked Howitzers under first major Make in India Program of the Indian Army All the 51 Guns...
The Indian Republic under Siege – Termites Crawling out of the Woodwork
By: Jay Bhattacharjee | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Jan , 2020
The last few weeks have been incendiary (both literally and figuratively) for our country. For almost every day during this period, our country which is young in the narrow political...
Afghanistan has changed but Taliban hasn’t: Afghan Envoy
By: Manish Rai | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Jan , 2020
Mr Tahir Qadiry is Afghanistan’s envoy to India (Charge d’Affaires). In an exclusive interview to Manish Rai, Editor of Viewsaround and a geo-political analyst spoke about various issues...
Elevating India-Brazil Relations will benefit both
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Jan , 2020
Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro will be the Chief Guest at Republic Day celebrations in January 2020. He had accepted Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s invitation for the occasion when they...
Japan's take on the escalating US-Iran tensions
By: Simran Walia | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 Jan , 2020
Japan, the world’s third largest economy is yet again in a great dilemma to balance its relations with the US and Iran, owing to the assassination of the Iranian leader Qassem Suleimani on...
To challenge status quo J&K needs new age, dynamic, baggage-free leadership
By: Col Jaibans Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Jan , 2020
The need for a dynamic leadership to chart out the course of new Jammu and Kashmir that is emerging post reorganisation has been spoken of by many academicians and intelligentsia. In fact, one of...
America’s Subcontinental Priority
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Jan , 2020
Citing a leaked letter of Pakistan’s foreign ministry, Asian Lite has reported that some 14 members of Pakistani military were killed recently by Baloch militants based in Iran and that this was...
BRICS must define the scope of the Upcoming War
By: Dr Sundaram Rajasimman | 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...
Relocations on India’s Borders
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Courtesy: http://claudearpi.blogspot.in/ | Date: 11 Jan , 2020
In the recent months, China has started in a massive relocation scheme in Tibet, redrawing the demography of India’s borders. Beijing admits that though the rural poverty rate was more than 97.5...
Defensive Action or Unnecessary Provocation-Trump’s Dilemma
By: Brig Anil Gupta | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Jan , 2020
2020 is an election year in the USA. President Donald Trump is trying for a second term. The American public will definitely review his performance before giving him a second chance. As far as...
CAA: Pakistan and China engineered the protests
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Jan , 2020
Irena Akbar in her article ‘Why I protest as a Muslim’ in the Indian Express dated 03-January-2020 wrote: “I did not protest just against the legislation (CAA) … it was a protest against...