Articles in Geopolitics
China Mocking Pussy Footers
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 Apr , 2013
In law, treason is the crime that covers some of the more extreme acts against one’s sovereignty or nation. A person who commits treason is known in law as a traitor. By another...
Let’s not get too relaxed on China
By: Kanwal Sibal | Issue: Courtesy: Mail Today | Date: 24 Apr , 2013
Reports of Chinese soldiers intruding 10 kilometres into Ladakh challenge once again our assumptions about the stability of the situation on the unsettled India-China border. Our expanding...
China: Hum Dekh Rahe Hain – We Are Watching!
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Apr , 2013
Commenting on the latest Chinese intrusion in Ladakh, Foreign Minister Salman Khurshid echoed former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi’s famous cliché “Hum Dekh Rahen Hain, Hamen Dekhna Hoga, Hum...
India-China Border Dispute
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Apr , 2013
The continuing (since April 15,2013) Chinese troop intrusion ( about 20 troops) 10 kms into Indian territory near Burthe in the Daulat Beg Oldi (DBO) area of Eastern Ladakh in the western sector...
17 Unanswered Questions About The Boston Marathon Bombing The Media Is...
By: admin | Date: 23 Apr , 2013
China's arms sales to Pakistan unsettling South Asian security
By: Dr Monika Chansoria | Issue: Vol 25.4 Oct-Dec 2010 | Date: 19 Apr , 2013
Underscoring its primacy as Pakistan’s primary benefactor in the realm of arms transfers, China’s recent upward swing in conventional arms sales to Islamabad has ruffled feathers as far as...
Indian Military in Afghanistan
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 17 Apr , 2013
A study released by the Centre for Strategic and International Studies, USA on 14 Jan 2013 has totaled the direct spending by the US on the war in Afghanistan for the period FY2001 to FY2013 as...
Afghanistan - Future Uncertain
By: Vikram Sood | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Apr , 2013
Events in Afghanistan had gathering momentum in March and quite apparently preparations for end 2014 were now looking serious and urgent. Closely following the visit of Defence Secretary Chuck...
Why the North Korean stand off?
By: Col R Hariharan | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Apr , 2013
There are both contemporary and historical reasons behind the North Korean threat to launch an offensive against South Korea and strike at U.S. bases in Guam and Hawaii. North Korea (Democratic...
BRICS: A wall for some and a platform for others
By: Vikram Sood | Issue: Courtesy: MidDay Mumbai | Date: 05 Apr , 2013
Success at multilateral events like the recently concluded BRICS-5 summit at Durban would be difficult to measure. Nevertheless, members of BRICS must have done something right to have attracted...
Impact of Pakistan's TNWs
By: Maj Gen PK Chakravorty | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 02 Apr , 2013
Pakistan’s nuclear programme is Indo centric and is based on offensive usage of nuclear weapons. On 19 April 2011, Pakistan successfully tested the Hatf IX, named NASR a solid fuelled...
India a mere spectator in the Great Game!
By: Danvir Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 Mar , 2013
The Great Game or the Geo Strategic power play, in Afghanistan, started somewhere in 1813, post Russo-Persian treaty. Since then over the two centuries, this region has witnessed varied players;...