Articles in Geopolitics
Japan-Taiwan relations: A look back on 2021 and look ahead to 2022
By: admin | Date: 01 Feb , 2022
Ukraine: Games Nations Play
By: Lt Gen (Dr) JS Bajwa | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 31 Jan , 2022
One is reminded of a couple of books published sometime in the mid and late sixties – ‘I am Ok, You are Ok’ by Thomas Anthony Harris and ‘Games People Play’ by Eric Berne. Harris...
Ukraine Crisis – Cold War and Beyond
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 Jan , 2022
Rapid developments are taking place in the Ukraine crisis. Addressing a press conference in Kyiv on January 28, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called on the West not to create panic amid...
Western support for Russian opposition
By: Slavisha Batko Milacic | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 Jan , 2022
The growing pressure on Russia from Europe every day does not lead to support for street protests and a wave of discontent among Russians, as well as to mass opposition demonstrations, no matter...
Impending Russian Attack on Ukraine?
By: Gp Capt TP Srivastava | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Jan , 2022
World is waiting with bated breath. When will Russian offensive to annex Ukraine commence? Very large number of well informed Military Strategists think that current Russia-Ukraine face off is a...
Pakistan's National Security Policy is Full of Wishful Thinking, Starkly...
By: admin | Date: 28 Jan , 2022
Fissures Developing in Sino-Pak Relations?
By: Nilesh Kunwar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 Jan , 2022
In his letter to Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang written in May last year to commemorate 70 years of Sino-Pak friendship, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan mentioned how “Our time-tested...
China Should Know That it’s Investment is not Safe in Balochistan: BNA
By: Manish Rai | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Jan , 2022
Two important Baloch armed groups Baloch Republican Army (BRA) and the United Baloch Army (UBA) recently announced their merger and formation of a new “resistance organization,” the Baloch...
Pakistan: Wages of ‘Keeping Snakes in the Backyard’
By: Nilesh Kunwar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Jan , 2022
It was in 2011, when former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had warned Pakistan about the dangers of providing safe sanctuaries and sustenance to terrorists by saying that “you can’t keep...
Pakistan heading for a fall is all the more dangerous for the world
By: Col Jaibans Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Jan , 2022
A few days back, two gunmen on a motorcycle opened fire on a police checkpoint in Islamabad, the capital city of Pakistan. In the ensuing fire-fight, an officer was killed, while two policemen...
Hundred Years of Peace with India: A Non-Starter from the Word Go
By: Lt Gen (Dr) JS Bajwa | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Jan , 2022
As expected there was a wave of euphoria amongst the Indian liberal community. They see the Pakistani National Security Policy as a success of all their Track 1.5, Track 2 and the other Umpteen...
14th Round : Endless Negotiations, ‘Insipid’ Line, Unsettled Border,...
By: Hemant Adlakha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Jan , 2022
It can be argued, when Henry McMahon drew an “insipid” line sitting in beautiful surroundings in Simla Office over one hundred years ago, he was only being dutiful in maximizing British...
Defence reform: Jointness and command and control
By: Ali Ahmed | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Jan , 2022
The story of General Rawat’s efforts as the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) to infuse critical velocity into the military’s jointness process is well known. Empowered by the amendment to the...
Pakistan’s National Security Policy
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Jan , 2022
The National Security Policy of Pakistan 2022-2026 is an attempt to deflect from the country’s consistent national security policy (NSP) of TERRORISM. The military which has run Pakistan from...
India’s Friendship with Afghan People – for a Common Humanity
By: Neelapu Shanti | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 Jan , 2022
“Yaari hai iman mera, yaar meri zindangi”- ardor of Zanjeer movie and amity of Aye Mere Payare Watan- Rabindranath Tagore’s novel ‘Kabuliwala’- reflects the surest anchor in India’s...
America and the Iran-China Bond
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Jan , 2022
During the recent visit of the Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian to China, Chinese Foreign Minister Wan Yi reaffirmed China’s opposition to unilateral sanctions by the US against...
The 14th Round of Talks in Ladakh: And the PLA’S Training Mobilisation...
By: Lt Gen (Dr) JS Bajwa | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Jan , 2022
On 4th January 2022, the Chairman of the Chinese Central Military Commission (CMC), Xi Jinping, signed and issued the Training Mobilisation Order (TMO) to the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) for...
USS Connecticut (SSN-22): I am not that Innocent!
By: Dr Rajasimman Sundaram | Issue: Vol. 36.4, Oct-Dec 2021 | Date: 14 Jan , 2022
A continental power adheres to a “closed-sea” concept, while a maritime power adheres to an “open-sea” concept. This difference also informs the naval strategy chosen by both, a maritime...