Articles in Courtesy: CLAWS
Prime Minister Modi’s Iran Visit: Chabahar and Beyond
By: Brig NK Bhatia, SM (Retd) | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 23 May , 2016
The finalizing of dates for visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Iran, 22 May to 23 May 2016 has generated a good amount of enthusiasm in India. Simultaneously, it is also aimed at sending a...
Nurturing Radical Professionalism
By: Ali Ahmed | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 08 May , 2016
With the conduct of the first Lt Gen Hanut Memorial Lecture, the Center for Joint Warfare Studies has taken on annual yeoman’s task. While the lecture topics will over coming years no doubt...
Hope for Sino-Indian Multilateral Progress Evident, But Major Concerns Remain
By: Sumantra Maitra | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 05 May , 2016
It has been an interesting couple of weeks between India and China. The Chinese finance minister Lou Jiwei met with Indian finance minister Arun Jaitley in Washington at the sidelines of the...
Pakistan's Game Plan to Check Expanding Indian Footprints in Chabahar
By: Brig NK Bhatia, SM (Retd) | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 27 Apr , 2016
India has been making the right moves with a view to enhance its interests in Persian Gulf, latest being the India –Iran –Afghanistan Trilateral Agreement on Transport and Transit Corridors...
Making the Future ICV in India
By: Lt Gen Philip Campose | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 21 Apr , 2016
The induction of the Soviet origin Infantry Combat Vehicle ICV BMP1 and concurrent creation of the Mechanised Infantry Arm of the Indian Army in 1979, as a result of the recommendations of the...
China-Nepal ‘All-weather Friendship’ – Should India be Wary?
By: Dr Rajeev Kumar | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 10 Apr , 2016
China-Nepal-India is a very complex set of relationship often invoking concerns and raising questions whenever Nepal gets closer to either India or China by playing the so called ‘card’...
Why Pakistan Orbited Out of SAARC Satellite Project?
By: Radhakrishna Rao | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 06 Apr , 2016
In a surprising development, Pakistan has decided to opt out of the ambitious South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) satellite project, mooted by India to help the member...
India and Japan Boarding the Shinkansen
By: Hargunh Kahlon | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 21 Mar , 2016
Indo-Japanese ties have seen what one can call an irresistible change in the last two decades. The growth to present day strategic partnership has been on the basis of common democratic values and...
Chabahar: India's Opportunity to Connect with Afghanistan and Central Asia
By: Brig NK Bhatia, SM (Retd) | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 17 Mar , 2016
Indian External Affairs Minister reiterated in a seminar in New Delhi recently that “connectivity today is central to the global process and particularly imperative for Asian growth and...
Strengthening the Indo Russian Relationship
By: Maj Gen Alok Deb | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 08 Jul , 2015
The Prime Minister embarks on his first visit to Russia next week to attend the BRICS summit and a meeting of the SCO. A visit by an Indian dignitary to that country is fraught with symbolism,...
UN Sanctions Must Be Imposed On Pakistan
By: Brig. Gurmeet Kanwal | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 04 Jul , 2015
On June 22, 2015, the Afghan Parliament was attacked by Jihadi extremists while it was in session. According to Haseeb Sediqi, a spokesman for Afghanistan’s intelligence agency the National...
Nuclear Energy – The Politics Of It
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 13 Apr , 2015
There has been much debate in India for and against nuclear energy for electricity. The country witnessed unprecedented agitation preceding the commissioning of the Kudankulam Nuclear Power...
Is America subcontracting Afghanistan to Pakistan?
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 22 Mar , 2015
Henry Kissinger writes in his book ‘World Order’, “A further radicalization of the Arab world or heightened conflict in Pakistan could expose India to significant internal pressures.”...
Military Courts: Pakistan’s Counter Terrorism Intervention
By: Maj Gen Dhruv C Katoch | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 21 Jan , 2015
On 6 January 2015, the National Assembly of Pakistan approved the 21st Constitutional Amendment and Pakistan Army (Amendment) Bill 2015. The President of Pakistan, Mr Mamnoon Hussain, gave assent...
Defence Acquisitions: Mismanage Projects and Lose Money
By: Vikram Taneja | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 18 Jan , 2015
As observed by an alarmed Parliamentary Standing Committee on Defence, the estimated losses accrued due to time and cost overruns in Naval acquisitions/ developmental projects amount to a...
ISIS’s Impact on Pakistan: Will India Bear the Brunt?
By: Kirit Nair | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 24 Dec , 2014
Irrespective of whether ISIS continues to expand or gets eliminated, its most visible impact on Islamic nations in South Asia is the inspiration that its radical elements derive from ISIS’s...
Anti Naxal Operations: Initiative must be Regained
By: Maj Gen Dhruv C Katoch | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 10 Dec , 2014
On the morning of 1 December, 14 CRPF personnel including two officers were killed and over a dozen injured in an ambush carried out by the People’s Liberation Guerrilla Army (PLGA) of the CPI...
Counter Terrorism in Cyberspace
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 10 Nov , 2014
American writer-intellectual Gore Vidal once said, “The ‘war on terrorism’ is a war of ideas; and ideas cannot be bombed out of existence. The Bush-Blair partnership changed the word to...
Al Qaeda’s India Threat
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 15 Oct , 2014
Immediately post Ayman al-Zawahiri announcing establishment of an India Wing of Al Qaeda, prompt came a US media report quoting US counter-terrorism expert Bergen that there is no evidence of Al...
How much will the ISIS and Al Qaeda impact Indians?
By: Ganapathy Vanchinathan | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 01 Oct , 2014
Recently, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in his first interview as Prime Minister of India to a TV channel, responding to a question on the formation of AQIS, said it would be delusional to think...