Articles in Courtesy: CLAWS
Chinese Naval Movement in the Indian Ocean: Testing Military Intervention in...
By: Bhartendu K Singh | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 08 Apr , 2018
The recent movement of a Chinese naval flotilla into the Indian Ocean led to whispers of a possible military intervention in Maldives. The Chinese movement has taken place at a time when the...
The Abilene Paradox and Military Decision Making
By: Subhasis Das | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 02 Apr , 2018
The Abilene Paradox is a decision making mystery, which can be easy to comprehend but difficult to resolve. The term was first coined by management professor Jerry B Harvey, Professor Emeritus at...
The Journey of Kashmir From Independence till Pre-Terrorism
By: AS Chonker | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 31 Mar , 2018
The Second Round This second part of the “Kashmir-Know It Yourself Kit” covers the timelines from Independence to the Pre-Terrorism days. Shakespeare’s words “True hope is swift, and flies...
1962 War: A Critical Analysis
By: Maj Gen Sheru Thapliyal, PhD | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 30 Mar , 2018
We in India are perhaps perplexed to this day, over half a century later, as to why the Chinese attacked us in October–November 1962 despite our continued efforts to befriend....
Ideating Force Modernisation: Negotiating Culs de Sac
By: Lt Gen (Dr) Rakesh Sharma, PVSM,UYSM,AVSM,VSM (Retd.) | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 29 Mar , 2018
An intense debate on the doctrinal and force structuring basis of the Armed Forces, most significantly, the Army, is currently underway, becoming mordant as it goes. Four compelling threads merit...
Iranian President Rouhani’s Visit to India: An Analysis
By: Nagapushpa Devendra | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 18 Mar , 2018
The relationship that has built up between Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has transformed New Delhi’s approach towards Chabahar port and Iranian nuclear...
Shooting Across The Line—An Unfamiliar War
By: Ghanshyam Katoch | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 12 Mar , 2018
“All quiet along the Potomac,” they say, “Except, now and then, a stray picket Is shot as he walks on his beat to and fro, By...
Afghanistan’s Catch-22
By: Chayanika Saxena | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 02 Mar , 2018
For Afghanistan, there is nothing different about the year that has just begun except that there is more violence, increasing political fragmentation, a slowing economy, and rising discontent...
Kashmir Valley Behind the Veil - Application of Soft System Methodology in...
By: AS Chonker | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 16 Feb , 2018
Kashmir as a Soft System Soft systems methodology (SSM) is an approach to organizational process modelling (business process modelling) and it can be used both for general problem solving and for...
The Increasing Nuclear Weapons Stockpile of China
By: Neha Kumar Tiwari | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 13 Feb , 2018
Introduction China has always perpetuated the policy of ‘minimum deterrence’ since it carried out its first nuclear weapons test in 1964.[i] It was astonishing for the world to observe that...
Line of Control Ceasefire - ‘Escalate to De-escalate’
By: Lt Gen (Dr) Rakesh Sharma, PVSM,UYSM,AVSM,VSM (Retd.) | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 12 Feb , 2018
The Ceasefire Agreement is historic – dating to 2003, announced as it was initially unilaterally by Pakistan, and later on the Indian suggestion expanded to include Siachen Glacier. As one...
Ideating Force Management: Specialisation of Units
By: Lt Gen (Dr) Rakesh Sharma, PVSM,UYSM,AVSM,VSM (Retd.) | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 05 Feb , 2018
Warfare is currently in transformative phase – akin to the two military technological revolutions of the 21st century – the mechanisation of war and the advent of nuclear weapons. The first...
Augmented Soldier: Ethical, Social & Legal Perspective
By: Arjun Tyagi | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 01 Feb , 2018
Historical Perspective Human Augmentation refers to the modern technologies that actively seek to combine biology, nanotechnology and neurologic elements with other information to provide for the...
Pakistan-China: All Weather Friendship, or a Partnership of Limited Cooperation?
By: Neha Surwade | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 28 Jan , 2018
On inspecting the core nature of China and Pakistan as states, it comes out clearly that both the states are starkly different from one another. China, a colossal communist capitalist state...
Buffer States a Shield to Protect the Frontiers
By: Brig Narender Kumar (Retd.) | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 23 Jan , 2018
Economic and military rise of China has shown early signs of expansionist mindset. China is clear that war or any conflict is waged and won through a strategy. China has put in place a strategy...
Pakistan Mainstreams Terrorists & Radicals: Hafiz Saeed becomes the X-Factor
By: Harsh Upadhayay | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 06 Jan , 2018
It was a historic moment for Pakistan when Nawaz Sharif became Pakistan’s Prime Minister for a record third term after staging a triumphant comeback in parliamentary elections in 2013 as it was...
China's Foreign Policy Shift: Concerns for India
By: Praggya Surana | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 31 Dec , 2017
Keeping a Low Profile to Striving for Achievement Since the 1990s, China’s overarching foreign policy principle was taoguang yanghui, yousuo zuowei – ‘keeping a low profile and achieving...
China’s One Child Policy: Military Implications
By: Praggya Surana | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 29 Dec , 2017
As part of the sweeping military reforms that were initiated in 2015, China is considerably reducing the number of personnel in the PLA to become a leaner, more efficient force. The total PLA...
North Korea Conundrum - Unsustainable Logjam
By: Brig Narender Kumar (Retd.) | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 28 Dec , 2017
North Korea has put its allies and adversaries on the edge by irrational and unpredictable behaviour. It has created a strategic predicament for China because the longer Kim Jong Un stays greater...
Pakistan Military’s 2018 Poll Rigging Plot Underway
By: V Mahalingam | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 23 Dec , 2017
A series of seemingly unconnected events that rocked Pakistan in 2017 appear to be an exercise with profound political motives and far reaching implications for the country and its democracy. The...