Articles in Geopolitics
India and the US: Slow and Steady Relationship
By: Kanwal Sibal | Issue: Courtesy: Mail Today | Date: 24 Sep , 2013
All eyes will be on the meeting between our Prime Minister and President Obama this week and what it produces. This is natural as our relationship with the US is, in many ways, the most important...
Chinese Aggressiveness: Need for appropriate response
By: Maj Gen PK Chakravorty | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 23 Sep , 2013
Incursions from China continue despite protests and meetings by India. It is reported that on 20 August 2013, there were intrusions by China in the Walong- Choglagam sector in Arunachal Pradesh...
Its time for India to be Pro-active
By: Air Marshal RS Bedi | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 Sep , 2013
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s expected visit to Beijing for summit level talks with Chinese President Xi jinping on October 28, despite tension over frequent incursions by the Chinese troops...
Chinese incursions are a regular affair in Arunachal, reveal locals
By: admin | Date: 18 Sep , 2013
The Advancing Borders of the Chinese Empire
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Vol. 28.3 Jul-Sep 2013 | Date: 17 Sep , 2013
The incidents in the Depsang Plain, near the Karakoram Pass in April or more recently, in Chumar in South Ladakh, are the continuance of Nehru’s blind spot for China. There is today a huge...
Pakistan: Peace remains a Chimera
By: Maj Gen Dhruv C Katoch | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 13 Sep , 2013
The successful holding of elections in Pakistan earlier this year marked a significant forward movement in the country’s politics with the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) handing over power to the...
The India - China Border Conundrum
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Vol. 28.3 Jul-Sep 2013 | Date: 12 Sep , 2013
China is becoming increasingly aggressive across the Himalayas for multiple reasons. She takes pride in her ‘Middle Kingdom’ legacy but this mentality is laced with guilt from decades of...
Syria: Need proof to pass judgment
By: Kanwal Sibal | Issue: Courtesy: Mail Today | Date: 10 Sep , 2013
The G 20 meeting in St Petersburg has further exposed and deepened international divisions on Syria. President Obama believes that the Syrian government is responsible for last month’s chemical...
US subcontracting Afghanistan to Pakistan?
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Date: 08 Sep , 2013
In early 1970s, a Captain from the Afghan Army attending Junior Command Course in MHOW had this to say about Pakistan, “You attack them from the front and we will take her from the rear – that...
India's Open Secrets: Effects on sovereignty and democracy
By: Maj Gen S G Vombatkere | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Sep , 2013
American spying challenges comprise three categories, namely, friends, enemies and problems. The top two challenges are Brazil and Egypt. That India is No.3 challenge to U.S intelligence1 is...
Engineering Terror
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Sep , 2013
Abdul Karim Tunda Two dreaded Indian terrorists – Abdul Karim Tunda and Yasin Bhatkal – have been apprehended recently near Indo-Nepal border. Both of them had developed significant Pakistani...
China-US- North Korea: The Dynamics of a Strategic Triangle
By: Ashok Kapur | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 31 Aug , 2013
China has developed a double policy in relation to North Korea. Its primary interest was and remains to maintain North Korea as a strategic buffer against the extension of American commercial,...
India lost in Afghan endgame
By: Kanwal Sibal | Issue: Courtesy: Mail Today | Date: 27 Aug , 2013
The situation in Afghanistan is full of uncertainties and the prospects of India’s neighbourhood becoming even more difficult for us are real. We have little control over the situation in...
Insight into Myanmar
By: Shubhodeep Chattopadhyay | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 26 Aug , 2013
Ethnic minorities constitute almost one-third of the total population; the minority communities are located mainly in seven states, and these are named after these communities. The following...
The Chinese Game Plan
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Vol. 28.3 Jul-Sep 2013 | Date: 26 Aug , 2013
With the opening of two fronts against New Delhi, Beijing will, in collusion with Islamabad, repeat ‘1962’ in the near future on an enlarged scale. The ‘peace’ witnessed in Kashmir for...
Coherence and Resolve in Foreign Policy
By: Maj Gen Pushpendra Singh | Issue: Vol. 28.2 Apr-Jun 2013 | Date: 23 Aug , 2013
In the recent LoC incident, many TV channels indulged in competitive hysteria and opposition too went overboard demanding ten heads for one! This contrasts glaringly with the mature support the...
India's Foreign Policy : A Muddle for Sixty Two Years
By: Maj Gen Sheru Thapliyal, PhD | Issue: Vol 24.4 Oct-Dec 2009 | Date: 17 Aug , 2013
The India-Pakistan joint statement at Sharm-al-Sheikh during the NAM conference in which Balochistan was mentioned for no rational reasons has once again brought into sharp focus, lack of...