Articles in Geopolitics
Extended South Asian Region - II
By: Col Harjeet Singh | Issue: Vol 22.2 Apr-Jun 2007 | Date: 02 Oct , 2011
The Indian Ocean Region The Indian Ocean is the third largest body of water on the globe, covering 20% of the earth’s surface. They are the waters of wealth as well as conflict, depending on...
Pakistan military’s Swat offensive
By: Col Rajinder Singh | Issue: Vol 24.3 Jul-Sep 2009 | Date: 01 Oct , 2011
Most people and even some military minds do not appreciate the difference between fighting a conventional war and an unconventional war. The former is against a known enemy with well-defined...
Indian built Zaranj-Delaram Highway under Taliban Control
By: VK Shashikumar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Oct , 2011
The Zaranj-Delaram highway in Afghanistan built by India and handed over to the Afghan government on January 22, 2009 is now under Taliban control. Within two years of the commissioning of this...
Extended South Asian Region - I
By: Col Harjeet Singh | Issue: Vol 22.2 Apr-Jun 2007 | Date: 01 Oct , 2011
Till the early 20th century Asia was referred to as one entity – the Orient. Subdivision of its regions changed the nomenclatures to Near East, East (the Indian subcontinent) and the Far East....
Unification of China?
By: Maj Gen Sheru Thapliyal, PhD | Issue: Vol. 26.3 July - Sept 2011 | Date: 28 Sep , 2011
China’s economic growth, growing diplomatic leverage, and improvements in the PLA’s military capabilities, contrasted with Taiwan’s modest defence efforts, have the effect of shifting the...
US-Pakistan Tensions: China's Cautious Stance
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 Sep , 2011
The Chinese media have started informing the Chinese people of the tensions in Pakistan’s ties with the US without any editorial comment so far.There have been no comments from the spokesperson...
Beijing Irked by Myanmar Decision to Suspend Dam Construction in Kachin State
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 Sep , 2011
The Government of Myanmar announced on September 30,2011, the suspension of its plans to build, with Chinese assistance, a massive dam on the Irrawaddy River in the Northern Kachin State. The...
US-Pakistan: Search for Mutually Face-Saving Option Continues
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 Sep , 2011
The search for a mutually face-saving option in the dramatic turn of events in the relations between the US and Pakistan has continued over the week-end. The dramatic turn came following the...
Is Nazi China emerging?
By: Rajinder Puri | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Sep , 2011
For years I have maintained that China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) is a government within a government. I have repeatedly pointed out that the actions of the Beijing government betray...
China: Checkmating India in Afghanistan
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Sep , 2011
China has shown interest in the construction of two railway lines—-one in Pakistan via the Gilgit-Baltistan region and the other in Afghanistan. While the railway line through Gilgit-Baltistan,...
The Af-Pak boundary is not a border
By: Lt Gen JFR Jacob | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Sep , 2011
There has been a heated debate on the validity and legality of Sir Henry Mortimer Durand’s line, a line some 2,640 kilometres long between former British India and Afghanistan, which now...
South China Sea: India should avoid rushing in where even US exercises caution
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Sep , 2011
China has reacted — moderately through a spokesperson of its Foreign Office and somewhat virulently through the Party-controlled “Global Times” — to reports that India has been...
Pakistan: A Convoluted Script
By: Wilson John | Issue: Vol 22.4 Oct-Dec 2007 | Date: 14 Sep , 2011
When the time comes for writing an epitaph for Pakistan’s President-General Pervez Musharraf, two critical blunders committed by him in 2007 would be mentioned without fail. First would be the...
India's Strategic Engagement of the East
By: SD Muni | Issue: Vol 20.4 Oct-Dec 2005 | Date: 14 Sep , 2011
India’s ‘Look-East Policy’, initiated during the early 1990s as a part of India’s attempts to cope with the post-Cold War shifts in world and Asian politics, has picked up the threads,...
Pakistan: Testing of Tactical Nuclear Weapons
By: Cdr Abhijit Singh | Issue: Vol. 26.3 July - Sept 2011 | Date: 12 Sep , 2011
Pakistan’s recent tests of its Tactical Nuclear Missiles suggest a lowering of the threshold for nuclear conflict. More portentous is the underlying assumption of Tactical Nuclear Missiles...
Rabbani's Assassination: A wake-up call for India
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Sep , 2011
The assassination on September 20,2011, of Burhanuddin Rabbani, a Tajik leader of Afghanistan, is of strategic significance to India. Rabbaniwas the President of Afghanistan in the 1990s when...
US frets & fumes against Pakistan, but finds its options limited
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Sep , 2011
The past few days have seen the US fretting and fuming against Pakistan for its use of the Haqqani network to make the US forces bleed in Afghanistan reach an unprecedented new high. This has...
Pakistan: A Troubled Legacy and an Uncertain Future - II
By: Lt Gen Kamal Davar (Retd) | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 06 Sep , 2011
Relations with the United States Pakistan’s relations since the early 1950s with its mentor, the United States, has been a roller-coaster ride. Pakistan has been kept afloat all these years by...
Pakistan: A Troubled Legacy and an Uncertain Future - I
By: Lt Gen Kamal Davar (Retd) | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 05 Sep , 2011
It is the seventh-largest nation, with the sixth-largest armed forces, in the world and an alarmingly growing nuclear arsenal. Yet, Pakistan stands at the edge of an abyss and the crossroads of...
Sino-India Relations
By: Anil K Singh | Issue: Vol 22.1 Jan - Mar 2007 | Date: 04 Sep , 2011
The visit of the Chinese President Hu Jintao to India (20-23 November, 2006) has opened new vistas of concretisation of relations between New Delhi and Beijing, with emphasis on augmentation in...