Articles in Courtesy: CLAWS
Doklam Standoff – Secure Peace But Prepare for War
By: Brig Narender Kumar (Retd.) | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 22 Jul , 2017
In the Chinese language, the word “crisis” is composed of two characters, one representing the danger and the other, opportunity. The Doklam standoff offers risk of escalation of local war and an...
Military “Regime Change” Plan for Iran is Insanity
By: Sumantra Maitra | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 10 Jul , 2017
The CIA recently came out with the complete documents of the coup in Iran. As US is facing a riptide of a debate about foreign influence in another sovereign state’s domestic policy, the timing...
China’s Farce on the Verisimilitude of Hong Kong’s “Autonomy”
By: Dr Monika Chansoria | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 06 Jul , 2017
Chinese President Xi Jinping is back to doing what he does best – rule with an armed iron fist in the name of development. The location and occasion for the latest diktat this time being Hong...
‘Obey The Order’ – No Questions Asked, Or…
By: Lt Gen (Dr) Rakesh Sharma, PVSM,UYSM,AVSM,VSM (Retd.) | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 27 Jun , 2017
A recent trail on social media extolled a statement of General Mark Milley, the Chief of Staff for the US Army in May 2017, with a stunning comment about the order and discipline of the...
Defence Spending: More From Where?
By: Dnyanada Palkar and N. Soundararajan | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 23 Jun , 2017
India spends 2.35 per cent of GDP on defence. This includes defence pensions; and pensions must be included because it is after all an integral part of defence expenditure. This is also the norm...
Digitised Battlefield and its Impact on War Fighting
By: V Mahalingam | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 18 Jun , 2017
The evolution of modern technologies in the fields of communication, remote sensors, computers, and networking has transformed the fundamentals of the modern day battlefield environment and the...
The South China Sea Conundrum and the ASEAN Unity
By: Neha Surwade | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 02 Jun , 2017
Due to the vast amount of oil deposits, mineral wealth and even possibility of hydrocarbons[i], China and several neighboring states namely The Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Brunei...
‘Operation Tupac’: The Continuing Stimulus behind Pakistan Army’s...
By: Lt Gen Philip Campose | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 09 May , 2017
The killing of two Indian soldiers and subsequent mutilating of their bodies on the Line of Control (LoC) on May 1st, 2017, reportedly by a combined team of Pakistani soldiers and terrorists,...
Talking to the Taliban: It’s no longer a question of ‘if’ but of...
By: Chayanika Saxena | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 30 Apr , 2017
Afghanistan is witnessing a revival of ‘regional’ interest towards settling the conflict between the government and the deemed anti-government forces. Where this returning of the gaze has...
Blurring the Lines of Decisive or Aggressive: The US Strike on Syria
By: Kimberley Anne Nazareth | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 29 Apr , 2017
The US response to the alleged use of chemical weapons attacking Syria came in the form of a military strike on the Al Shayrat airfield in Syria. The launching of the 59 Tomahawks from US warships...
Don’t Be Naïve: Pakistan will Bypass the Frontiers to Fight Within Kashmir
By: Brig Narender Kumar (Retd.) | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 27 Apr , 2017
It is from the greatest dangers that the greatest glory is to be won – Thucydides It is a tired ideology to fight unjust war with just means. This strategy sooner or later is destined to...
Russia-US Move into Cold Peace- Implications for India in South Asia
By: Prateek Kapil | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 24 Apr , 2017
This article argues that contrary to popular opinion, the US military strike on the Syrian Airfield does not indicate a deterioration of US-Russia relations. The Syria strike was limited to...
Modernisation of Artillery Guns and Missiles – A Great Leap Forward
By: Maj Gen PK Chakravorty | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 20 Apr , 2017
The Indian Artillery is currently in a Network Centric Warfare (NCW) Environment that has to provide Surveillance and Reconnaissance resulting in Target Acquisition which would lead to engagement...
Iran-Pakistan Relations- Yet Another False Start?
By: Meenakshi Sood | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 17 Apr , 2017
The neighbour on Pakistan’s western border that takes up much of its time and energy is Afghanistan, never Iran. Iran and Pakistan share a 900-kilometre border that causes occasional...
India’s Military Deterrence and Modernisation in an Era of Optimal Warfare
By: Lt Gen Philip Campose | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 11 Apr , 2017
This article is written as a sequel to the previous one articulated a week ago on ‘Optimal Warfare.’ In that, the author had argued that, ‘optimal warfare’ – a limited, calibrated,...
Building A Defence Industrial Base
By: Lt Gen (Dr) NB Singh | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 10 Apr , 2017
The 21st Century has been designated as the era of knowledge and knowledge workers. In the sphere of military operations, classical fire and manoeuvre has been gradually replaced by Information &...
Political Direction of War in India in the State of Transient
By: Brig Narender Kumar (Retd.) | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 27 Mar , 2017
“A nation that draws a demarcation between its thinking men and its fighting men will soon have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools.” – Sir William Francis Butler There...
Modi's Neighbourhood First Policy Must March on, With or Without Pakistan
By: Kamal Madishetty | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 20 Mar , 2017
When Narendra Modi took oath as the 14th Indian Prime Minister in May 2014, he made an unprecedented diplomatic outreach to India’s neighbours by inviting their heads of government. The...
BeiDou & A2AD: Where is China Headed?
By: Praggya Surana | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 13 Mar , 2017
Humiliated by the GPS signal blackout during the Taiwan Strait Crisis in 1995-96, which resulted in China losing track of some of its satellites, China fast-tracked the development of its own...
Concerting for Peace in Afghanistan: Will the 'Meeting of Six' have a Tune...
By: Chayanika Saxena | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 11 Mar , 2017
Peace in Afghanistan appears to be on the minds of many. If the recent concert by the regional powers surrounding Afghanistan – Russia, Iran, India, China and Pakistan – is anything to go by,...