Articles in Issues
China’s Ladakh Obsession and India’s Option’s
By: Sqn Ldr Vijainder K Thakur (Retd.) and Suruchi Barniyal | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Sep , 2020
Introduction The unilateral realignment of the Line of Actual Control (LAC) by the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA), starting April 2020 and culminating with China de factoclaiming...
The Rafale: Indian Quest for Air Supremacy
By: Danvir Singh | Issue: Vol. Apr-Jun 2020, (35.2) & Jul-Sep 2020, (35.3) | Date: 22 Sep , 2020
The first five of India’s new Rafale fighters touched down at Ambala air base on July 29, 2020. Accordingly 31 more will follow and thus they will form two squadrons of 18 each by the end of...
1971 War: Sinking of the KHUKRI
By: Vice Adm (Retd) GM Hiranandani | Issue: Book Excerpt: Transition to Triumph | Date: 22 Sep , 2020
“The Story of the Pakistan Navy” has recounted the events as seen from the submarine HANGAR which sank the KHUKRI. HANGAR had sailed from Karachi on 22 November for a patrol off the Saurashtra...
Decoding Chinese Strategic Intent in Prolonged Standoff at LAC
By: Maj Gen SB Asthana | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Sep , 2020
Key Points Military posturing and muscle flexing in Ladakh continues with talks, as both sides refuse to blink first. PLA’s centre of gravity of military operations is Eastern Ladakh and...
India’s Endeavour at Recalibrating ties with Iran
By: Vandana Mishra | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 21 Sep , 2020
On September 5, 2020 Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh made a visit to Iran to meet his counterpart Brigadier General Amir Hatami. The main objective of the visit was highlighted in...
Isn’t the Dragon getting oversized?
By: K.N. Pandita | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Sep , 2020
Expansionism by force and by treachery is China’s well-known forte. If the originator of the chain-Hindi Bhai Bhainaiveté became its hopeless victim, bring not the onus to the doorsteps of...
The Assassination of Indira Gandhi
By: B Raman | Issue: Book Excerpt: The Kaoboys of R&AW | Date: 20 Sep , 2020
Till 1985, the IB was the over-all in charge of the security of the Prime Minister — while he or she was in Delhi as well as during his or her travels in India and abroad. The IB’s...
US-Maldives Framework Agreement
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 Sep , 2020
During the recent visit to the US by Maldives Defence Minister Mariya Didi, both countries US signed a ‘Framework for US-Maldives Defence and Security Relationship’ on September 10, 2020. The...
India-China Asymmetry is over
By: Seshadri Chari | Issue: Courtesy: Uday India | Date: 19 Sep , 2020
In less than a week’s time New Delhi sent several strong signals in quick succession to Beijing conveying India’s pre-eminence in defense and diplomatic finesse. One such signal was Defence...
India-China Military Confrontation September 2020: NO De-escalation Foreseen
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 18 Sep , 2020
The India-China Joint Declaration announced in Moscow by the Chinese and Indian Foreign Ministers on September 10,2020 on the side-lines of the SCO Foreign Ministers Meet for speedy de-escalation...
China’s Peaceful Rise: A Hypothetical Scenario
By: Lt Gen (Dr) JS Bajwa | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Sep , 2020
“Our path is different from both the paths of Germany in World War I and Germany and Japan in World War II, when they tried to overhaul the world political landscape by way of aggressive wars....
Kashmir: Self appointed, self serving leadership is now in self preservation...
By: Col Jaibans Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Sep , 2020
In the wake of the bifurcation of the state of Jammu and Kashmir and abrogation of Article 370, the political structures in Kashmir that were aligned with separatism and soft separatism have been...
Leadership in the 21st Century: Sam Manekshaw, MC
By: Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw MC | Issue: Book Excerpt: Field Marshal KM Cariappa: | Date: 17 Sep , 2020
Vice President, Ladies and Gentlemen, I am fully conscious of the honour and privilege which is mine to be invited here to address you this evening. The honour is even greater that you should have...
US-China Trade War: Is it really related to Commerce?
By: Gp Capt TP Srivastava | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Sep , 2020
US-China Trade war has been going on ever since Trump moved into white house. As a novice in the arena of world economics, I too believed that indeed it must be true. But with each passing day,...
Five Mistakes India Should Not Make
By: Brig Anil Gupta | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Sep , 2020
The five-point consensus signed between the foreign ministers of India and China on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) meeting at Moscow to ease tension in the Eastern...
Two Front War Threat: A Historian’s Perspective
By: Col Anil Athale | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Sep , 2020
In April 2020, China amassed troops on Ladakh frontier with India prospect of a two front war has loomed large on Indian horizon. Two front war situations are brought about by geo-political...
The Dilemma of Xi Jinping
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Sep , 2020
Colonel Zhang Shuili, spokesperson of China’s Western Theatre Command (WTC) briefed media on September 8 that Indian Army illegally crossed the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Shenpao Mountain...
Corporatizing the Defence Ordnance Factories: Gainful Employment of Support...
By: Brig Pradeep Sharma | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 Sep , 2020
Introduction On the heels of my earlier article carried by IDR , some very important initiatives have been announced and steps taken by the Government. While these in my considered opinion have...
Crisis Culture in National Security
By: Gen Deepak Kapoor, PVSM, AVSM, SM, VSM, (Retd) | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 14 Sep , 2020
Two major aspects bedevil our approach to our national security. In fact, they are not only relevant to national security but almost to all other spheres of our functioning as a nation. First is...
The Five Point Consensus – The Calm before the Storm?
By: Dr Rajasimman Sundaram | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Sep , 2020
The re-establishment of peace and tranquility along the Sino-Indian border based on the joint communiqué agreed between the foreign ministers of India and China on 09 September along the...