Articles in Courtesy: South Asia Monitor
Bravehearts of Killer Squadron: Recalling Indian Navy’s 1971 Valour
By: Anil Bhat | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Monitor | Date: 30 Dec , 2021
President Ram Nath Kovind awarded the President’s Standard to the 22nd Missile Vessel Squadron, also known as the Killer Squadron of the Indian Navy, at an impressive ceremonial parade at Naval...
The Maritime Dimension of the India-Pakistan Conflict
By: Niranjan Marjani | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Monitor | Date: 26 Nov , 2021
In a bid to counter India, China recently delivered its most advanced warship to Pakistan. It is designed and built by China State Shipbuilding Corp Ltd (CSSC). It was commissioned in the Pakistan...
India needs to become Drone-Conscious to Counter Aerial Cross-Border Threats
By: Anil Bhat | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Monitor | Date: 07 Aug , 2021
Terrorism exported by Pakistan’s military to Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) did not end with the abrogation of Article 370 – which had given limited autonomy to the then state – of the Indian...
Vikrant sets Sail: India Demonstrates Prowess to Design and Build Aircraft...
By: Cmde C Uday Bhaskar (Retd.) | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Monitor | Date: 05 Aug , 2021
Wednesday, 4 August 2021 will be remembered as a momentous day in the annals of India’s chequered maritime history as the first indigenously designed and built aircraft carrier – the 37,500...
La Perouse: Quad Emerges as Strategic Fulcrum of like-minded Nations
By: Cmde C Uday Bhaskar (Retd.) | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Monitor | Date: 08 Apr , 2021
In a significant development related to the Indian Ocean region (IOR), the five-nation, three-day La Perouse naval exercise led by France will conclude on Thursday (April 7). The participating...
Why New Delhi should not Fear the Taliban’s return to Power in Kabul
By: Hamayun Khan and S Nasrat | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Monitor | Date: 12 Mar , 2021
Despite being a pro-Pakistan group ever since its emergence in 1994, the Taliban’s dominance in Afghanistan can no longer be a big threat for India. After 20 years, the Taliban finally signed a...
Need for Reinventing India’s Aeronautical Industry
By: Admiral Arun Prakash (Retd.) | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Monitor | Date: 22 Feb , 2021
Whether it was a scheduled visit, or happenstance, India’s Defence Minister Rajnath Singh was in Moscow, in June 2020 within days of the alarming sanguinary encounter between Indian and Chinese...
For India’s National Security, Time for Civil and Military Synergy
By: Lt Gen PR Kumar (Retd.) | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Monitor | Date: 07 Feb , 2021
“War is a continuation of politics by other means,” Carl Von Clausewitz, Prussian general and military theorist. Let us start by unequivocally stating that it is nations that go to war. The armed...
India Beefs up Air force with Indigenous Fighter Jets: Dawn of a New Era in...
By: Admiral Arun Prakash (Retd.) | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Monitor | Date: 21 Jan , 2021
“Quantity has a quality, all its own,” is a phrase attributed to Soviet leader Joseph Stalin. He was referring to Russia’s numerical preponderance in men and machines, which had brought the...
India should take lead in Shaping Global Maritime Conventions to Protect...
By: Cmde Anil Jai Singh (Retd) | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Monitor | Date: 09 Jan , 2021
The presence of 23 Indian sailors on board MV Jag Anand at anchorage off the Chinese port of Jingtang since June 13, 2020, and the 16 sailors on board MV Anastasia at anchorage off the port of...
Terrorists may not Seize Power in Pakistan, but enabling Environment for...
By: Michael Kugelman | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Monitor | Date: 25 Dec , 2020
John Bolton, a prominent US foreign policy hawk, has taken some controversial positions over the years. So it’s unsurprising that he made some eyebrow-raising comments about Pakistan in a recent...
China Factor will continue to Impact India-US Relations
By: Aneek Chatterjee | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Monitor | Date: 07 Nov , 2020
October 2020 will be cherished as a remarkable month for India-US relations. US Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo and Secretary of Defence Mark T. Esper visited India on October 26-27 for the...
Recalling the Pain of 1962 Indo-China War: Lessons Forgotten, Truth Buried
By: Cmde C Uday Bhaskar (Retd.) | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Monitor | Date: 22 Oct , 2020
On October 20, 1962, the Chinese troops launched a surprise attack against India across what has become the LAC (Line of Actual Control) and then prime minister Jawahar Lal Nehru was bewildered...
Corporatisation of Ordnance Factory Board: A Strategic Necessity for India
By: Anil Bhat | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Monitor | Date: 26 Sep , 2020
An Empowered Group of Ministers has been constituted under the chairmanship of Defence Minister Rajnath Singh to oversee and guide the entire process of corporatisation of Ordnance Factory Board...
It's going to be a long eyeball-to-eyeball standoff with China: But India is...
By: Anil Bhat | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Monitor | Date: 12 Sep , 2020
After exactly 53 years since September 1967, of being reactive on the ground to thousands of moves/attempts by China’s Peoples’ Liberation Army (PLA) trying its tricks to grab India’s...
FATF credibility is at stake: How many more shades of grey for Pakistan?
By: Jai Kumar Verma | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Monitor | Date: 24 Oct , 2019
Instead of downgrading Pakistan to the ‘blacklist’ from its ‘grey list,’ the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) gave Islamabad four more months to comply with its conditions. The FATF...
Credible Deterrence must remain Leitmotif of India’s Security Policies
By: Admiral Arun Prakash (Retd.) | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Monitor | Date: 06 Sep , 2019
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Independence Day announcement on August 15 about the institution of a Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) has, justifiably, evoked hosannas from the armed forces...
After constitutional integration, integrate the population of Kashmir with India
By: Jai Kumar Verma | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Monitor | Date: 08 Aug , 2019
Home Minister Amit Shah announced in Parliament on Monday August 5 that the major part of Article 370 of the Indian Constitution had been revoked and Article 35A, relating to Kashmir, scrapped. He...
Al Qaeda video a desperate attempt to revive dying Kashmir Militancy
By: Jai Kumar Verma | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Monitor | Date: 23 Jul , 2019
Raveesh Kumar, spokesperson for India’s Ministry of External Affairs, commenting on the latest video issued by al Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri, rightly stated on July 11 that Indian security...
20 year after Kargil: India's Military Modernisation remains unaddressed
By: Cmde C Uday Bhaskar (Retd.) | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Monitor | Date: 16 Jul , 2019
July 2019 marks the 20th anniversary of the Kargil war that caught India by surprise in the summer of 1999. Pakistani troops under the guise of being ‘irregulars’ violated Indian...