Articles in Geopolitics
NATO's Expansion: Ramifications for India
By: Brig Vijai K Nair | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 16 Nov , 2011
Formed in 1949, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) constituted a system of collective defence that continued to enlarge its membership in keeping with Cold War imperatives to contain...
Punjab's Pakistan
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Vol 22.4 Oct-Dec 2007 | Date: 13 Nov , 2011
The part that constitutes the Punjab province in Pakistan, like other provinces of Sindh, NWFP and Balochistan, were not enthusiastic about the concept of Pakistan. It was much later, in the early...
End game in Afghanistan
By: Pinaki Bhattacharya | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 11 Nov , 2011
Then Associated Press (AP) published a story on 29 August 2010 about how Afghan government officials outed the secret about U.S. talks with the Taliban, which had reached a fairly substantive...
Tibet and British India - I
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Book Excerpt: Tibet - The Lost Frontier | Date: 11 Nov , 2011
Started in 1600 as a company with shareholders to peacefully and profitably develop trade with the Asian continent, the East India Company was no longer a trading concern by the beginning of the...
Jihadis will capture the Pak Military - IV
By: Ramtanu Maitra | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 11 Nov , 2011
Ilyas Kashmiri, whose death in a 2011 U.S. missile attack still remains to be confirmed, founded Brigade 313, later an operational arm of al-Qaeda, within his jihadist organisation Harkat...
China takes over Nepal
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Nov , 2011
What is going on in Nepal? If one goes by the latest news, nothing good for India. Why did Mr. Shyam Saran, the Prime Minister’s Special Envoy had to pay a quick visit to the former Himalayan...
Jihadis will capture the Pak Military - III
By: Ramtanu Maitra | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 10 Nov , 2011
Bringing the Taliban to Power By conducting a proxy-war on behalf of the Western nations and Saudi Arabia against the Soviet military, Pakistan morphed into a central hub that attracted a...
Jihadis will capture the Pak Military - II
By: Ramtanu Maitra | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 08 Nov , 2011
Encouraging Sunni Militants: The Rise of Shia Iran There were still other factors in and around Pakistan that contributed to the transformations that Gartenstein-Ross addressed. For instance,...
Jihadis will capture the Pak Military - I
By: Ramtanu Maitra | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 07 Nov , 2011
The military brass who have begun to embrace the jihadis may have other interests in mind, as well. For instance, Pakistan’s military has been in power, or directing those in power from its...
Tibetan unrest spreads
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 Nov , 2011
The unrest of Tibetan monks, which has so far led to 10 attempts to commit self-immolation — seven of them successful resulting in deaths — in Western Sichuan, is now showing signs of spreading...
The Jihadi War - II
By: Col Harjeet Singh | Issue: Vol 23.2 Apr-Jul 2008 | Date: 01 Nov , 2011
Operation Enduring Freedom Operation Enduring Freedom is the official name used by the US government for its military response to the 11 September 2001 attacks on the country. Holding the Taliban...
The Jihadi War - I
By: Col Harjeet Singh | Issue: Vol 23.2 Apr-Jul 2008 | Date: 31 Oct , 2011
The lack of success in operation enduring Freedom in Afghanistan results from the US-led coalition’s failure to develop and implement, jointly, a coherent strategy for its conduct that...
Thinking the Unthinkable
By: Lt Gen Vinay Shankar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 Oct , 2011
While our Prime Minister plays the conjuror with war clouds and the mysteries of lightening strikes, a grave and potently disastrous possibility of an armed Indo –Pak conflict is being...
Libya: An Old Evil Is Dead, A New Evil Is Born
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Oct , 2011
No right-thinking person would shed tears over the death of Gaddafi, the Libyan dictator, but any well-informed analyst with his feet firmly on the ground would be nervous over the likely sequel...
Islam and its many trends
By: Anand K Verma | Issue: Vol 24.1 Jan-Mar 2009 | Date: 16 Oct , 2011
Except the war zones, palestine, Iraq and Afghanistan and the proxy war zones Kashmir and India, for quite sometime the rest of the world has not witnessed a major terrorist incident. This is...
U.S. Needs a Bold Strategy on Pakistan
By: B Raman | Date: 16 Oct , 2011
The indicators from reliable sources in Pakistan are that the just-concluded visit ( October 21,2011) of Mrs.Hillary Clinton, the US Secretary of State, to Pakistan at the head of a high-power...
Why has Libya been attacked?
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Oct , 2011
Since the exit of President Mubarak in Egypt, the geopolitical contours of the Arab world has been changing rapidly. What was touted as a revolution for democracy has now degenerated into pure...
India expands its strategic presence
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Oct , 2011
Slowly, but steadily and unrelentingly, India has been expanding its strategic presence. One dimension of this became evident during the recent visit of President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan to...
Confronting the Dragon: Assertiveness Required
By: Maj Gen Dhruv C Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Oct , 2011
Chinese actions over the last few years reflect an increasing assertiveness bordering on domination. While the relationship between India and China could be considered stable at the strategic...
The Arab Spring: opening a pandora's box?
By: Anand K Verma | Issue: Vol. 26.3 July - Sept 2011 | Date: 02 Oct , 2011
The so called Arab spring represents a massive popular movement, not seen or predicted in the Arab world ever since the Suez sponsored Nasserite upheaval. It is as significant as the falling of...