Articles in Courtesy: CLAWS
Pakistan Eyes J-20: Why India Needs to Accelerate the PAK-FA
By: Anushree Dutta | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 26 Feb , 2017
Stealth technology is a sub-discipline of military tactics and passive electronic countermeasures, which covers a range of techniques used with personnel, aircraft, ships, submarines, missiles...
Why China is up in Arms over the Defensive Missile System, THAAD
By: Praggya Surana | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 12 Feb , 2017
China has strongly opposed the proposed deployment of the US missile system, ‘Theatre High Altitude Area Defense’ (THAAD) in South Korea. It has argued that the US should strongly reconsider...
Military Courts in Pakistan: Army Should be the Enabler, not the Provider of...
By: Meenakshi Sood | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 28 Jan , 2017
There comes a moment in every nation’s life when the banality of evil and routinised violence becomes unbearable, when it is shaken to the core by the destruction perpetrated by demons it has...
Assessment: Russian Military Strategy, Operational Tactics and Objective in...
By: Sumantra Maitra | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 24 Jan , 2017
Russian military intervention in Syria started around September 2015, after an official request from the Syria’s Bashar Al-Assad government. A revanchist Russia, even with a stagnated...
Towards Power Sufficiency and Power Parity in Afghanistan
By: Chayanika Saxena | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 22 Jan , 2017
Ravaged by decades of violent conflicts, Afghanistan today finds itself treading a difficult path towards sustainable and effective reconstruction and redevelopment. In its attempt to rebuild the...
Post Sanctions Iran - Deal or a Deal Breaker for India?
By: Neha Surwade | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 18 Jan , 2017
China’s ambitious One Belt One Road (OBOR) project, of building rail, road and pipelines across the ancient Silk Route is seen as a game changer in the geopolitics of 21st Century. Pumping of...
Russia's Cyber War: Options before the US
By: Sarosh Bana | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 16 Jan , 2017
US intelligence’s findings holding Russian President Vladimir Putin directly responsible for a cyber campaign that ensured Republican Donald Trump’s victory in the 2016 presidential election...
‘One China’ Policy : Should Trump Let Sleeping Dogs Lie?
By: Praggya Surana | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 29 Dec , 2016
United States President-elect Donald Trump chose to receive a phone call from the Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen, congratulating him on his victory. This conversation broke decades of diplomatic...
Assessing the Right Strategy to Deal with Emerging Contours of Conflict in J&K
By: Brig Narender Kumar (Retd.) | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 28 Dec , 2016
Armies do not fight wars; nations fight wars. War is not a military activity conducted by soldiers, rather a social activity that involves entire nations. Carl von Clausewitz noted that passion,...
The Heart of Asia Conference: Zero Tolerance to Terrorism
By: Sumit Kumar | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 21 Dec , 2016
The sixth Heart of Asia (HoA) Conference was held in Amritsar on 3rd and 4th December 2016, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani inaugurating the ministerial...
Geostrategic Convergence of India’s Act East Policy and Indo-Pacific...
By: Surbhi Moudgil | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 12 Dec , 2016
Asia today stands at a geopolitical intersection with increasing shift in economic powers, growing strategic disability and subverting unilateral contentions grounded on unsettled historical...
Unknown is the New Normal
By: Subhasis Das | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 06 Dec , 2016
Can Wargaming tools aid the Military Decision Maker in the uncertain future? A series of world events in the last few years is a pointer to the increasingly unpredictable nature of the future....
Barbarism is Not a Tactical or Strategic Escalation Ladder
By: Prateek Kapil | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 30 Nov , 2016
“To know only one thing well is to have a barbaric mind: civilization implies the graceful relation of all varieties of experience to a central human system of thought.” ― Robert Graves It...
India-Nepal Relations
By: Sumit Kumar | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 24 Nov , 2016
President Pranab Mukherjee’s three day visit to Nepal in November 2016 was historic. He became the first Indian President in the last 18 years to visit Nepal. Nepalese President Bidhya Devi...
The King of Guns Will Soon Be Home
By: Debalina Chatterjee | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 20 Nov , 2016
In mid-November 2016, the much delayed M-777A2 Ultra-Light Howitzers (ULH) also known as the “Triple Seven” has been approved for purchase by the Defence Acquisition Council (DAC). India...
Devised Leadership Crisis in Taliban: Takeover by Haqqanies
By: Shreyas Deshmukh | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 16 Nov , 2016
Since American offensive started in Afghanistan against Taliban regime in 2001, the entity remained homogeneous without any serious fractionalisation in exile till June 18, 2013 when Taliban...
The Tactical Nuclear Weapons (TNW) Conundrum
By: Maj Gen PK Chakravorty | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 20 Oct , 2016
Introduction The Indian Army needs to be complimented for undertaking precise surgical strikes at numerous locations across the Line of Control (LoC) on the night of 28 and 29 September. Though...
China’s Shenzhou 11 Mission: A Step Closer to a Permanent Space Station
By: Puneet Bhalla | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 16 Oct , 2016
On 15 September 2015, a Chinese Long March 2F rocket put Tiangong-2 (Heavenly Palace), the 8.6 tonne Chinese Space Laboratory into the low Earth orbit (LEO) of 380 kilometres. Over the next...
INSTC and CPEC: Conflicts and Politics of Corridors
By: Brig NK Bhatia, SM (Retd) | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 09 Oct , 2016
South Asia is in for some exciting times ahead with fast changing geo political developments with primary focus being on connectivity. China’s quest to establish “One Belt One Road”, an...
China-Russia ‘Joint Sea-2016’ Drill: Timely Convergence or Strong Signal?
By: Dr Rajeev Kumar | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 27 Sep , 2016
Chinese and Russian navies concluded their week-long “Joint Sea-2016” drill from 13-19 September 2016. These are the fifth Sino-Russian ‘Joint Sea’ drills since 2012. They are the single...