Articles in Courtesy: CLAWS
A Road For a Road- Blocking Chinese Unilateralism
By: AS Chonker | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 20 Dec , 2017
Introduction The Indo-Pacific region is becoming a playground of great Geopolitical powerplay and thus attracting many a scholar to analyze the power equations at play. The Indian Ocean is...
The India Factor in China-Pakistan Defence Ties
By: Anushree Dutta | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 19 Dec , 2017
China and Pakistan have long-standing strategic ties, dating back five decades. China’s partnership with Pakistan first emerged during the mid-1950s when Beijing reached out to several developing...
Iran: India’s Pivot to Connectivity
By: Brig Nalin Bhatia | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 18 Dec , 2017
India’s push to boost connectivity with Eurasia is set to be enhanced further with planned operationalisation of the International North South Transportation Corridor (INSTC) in mid January...
Make in India: Indian Army Initiative since 2016 Interactions with Indian...
By: MKK Iyer | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 15 Dec , 2017
Why this Initiative? Since January 2016, the Indian Army has taken an unusual and extraordinary interaction which is generally miles away from the ‘Holy Cow’ syndrome that Army is generally...
Multiple Object Kill Vehicle (MOKV)
By: Sandeep Tyagi | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 11 Dec , 2017
Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD) The concept of having a defensive system against ballistic missiles came into being in the 1950s, wherein both USA and USSR started coming up with elementary BMD...
Chabahar: Indian Perseverence pays Dividends
By: Brig Nalin Bhatia | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 09 Dec , 2017
The 15 year long wait forthe opening of Chabahar Port, located in Sistan- Balochistan region of Iran, originally conceived in January 2003, ended on 3rd December 2017after its formal inauguration...
Current State of Modernisation in the Indian Artillery
By: Maj Gen PK Chakravorty | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 28 Nov , 2017
The Indian Artillery is currently in a Network Centric Warfare (NCW) Environment and has to provide Surveillance and Reconnaissance resulting in Target Acquisition which would lead to engagement...
Strategic Partnership: The Unresolved Issues
By: Sushil Chander | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 20 Nov , 2017
Self-reliance and indigenisation in defence manufacturing is vital for success in future wars. The doors for Private Industry participation were opened fifteen years hence, but the response has...
Probability Game about War between China and USA in Asia
By: Sumantra Maitra | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 18 Nov , 2017
Not reading Thucydides is a mistake, misreading Thucydides is fatal Ever since the curtain of the 19th party congress in China, there has been a flurry of contradictory political analysis on the...
Military Modernization of India Must Include an Urgent Naval Buildup
By: Sumantra Maitra | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 31 Oct , 2017
In a recent under-reported news a pair of Chinese warships sailed up in River Thames. This is the first time Chinese warships made port calls in Britain, ad post Brexit Britain seeks closer...
Kashmir at the Crossroads of History
By: AS Chonker | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 25 Oct , 2017
Introduction The Kashmir conflict which had its genesis in the birth of two nations India and Pakistan (and may be as direct consequence of British inability to control the “Great Game” any...
The Rohingya Crisis in Myanmar: Options for India
By: Sumit Kumar | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 17 Oct , 2017
Ever since Rohingya Muslim militants killed 12 local persons in the Rakhine state of Myanmar on August 25, 2017, the situation in the country is highly volatile, with least 370 Rohingya having...
Lethal Autonomous Weapons & RMA
By: Shashank Yadav | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 30 Sep , 2017
Recently the UN’s Conference of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) established a Group of Governmental Experts (GGE) on Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems (LAWs). The group is...
Nepal a Crumbling Shield of Heart Land India
By: Brig Narender Kumar (Retd.) | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 20 Sep , 2017
Chanakya had said, “Neighbouring states are most relevant in foreign policy”[1].Nations should do everything possible to protect vital national interests even if it means according greater...
Testing Pakistan’s Conventional Response below the Nuclear Threshold
By: Rameshwar Roy | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 17 Sep , 2017
The Doklam issue stands resolved after a nearly 73-day standoff, at least for the time being. It has been a tremendous battle of nerves and resolve on part of the Indian Army’s to not only...
US-Pakistan ties at a Crossroads
By: Dr Priyanka Singh | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 12 Sep , 2017
Amidst high anticipation, on August 21, 2017, US President Donald Trump unveiled his strategy on Afghanistan and South Asia. Given the new strategy’s continued commitment to the previously-held...
Use of Mine Protected Vehicles against Left Wing Extremism- A Chronicle of...
By: Suparna Banerjee | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 22 Aug , 2017
Introduction While waiting for Godot, the third character, who eventually remains unknown in this famous play by Samuel Beckett, the other two characters in Waiting for Godot, engages in a...
Xi Jinping’s Fight against Coups and Assassination Bids
By: V Mahalingam | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 19 Aug , 2017
Quoting a source identified as a top Chinese Communist Party (CCP) official, Hong Kong’s Trendmagazine indicated[i] in September, 2014, that Xi Jinping has, to date survived six assassination...
Competing Political Authorities and Interests: Crisis Governance in...
By: Chayanika Saxena | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 10 Aug , 2017
Much like any other country across the world, Afghanistan too contains many faultlines within its polity. A seemingly obvious consequence of the existence of such cleavages is their mobilization...
The Process of CPEC – Confidence, Corruption, Elections, China
By: Prateek Kapil | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 04 Aug , 2017
PM Nawaz Sharif was forced to resign one year before his stipulated five- year term in light of the Supreme Court verdict indicting him for disproportionate foreign assets revealed as part of the...