Articles in Geopolitics
Why US Strategy in Afghanistan Failed Against Taliban-Pakistan Nexus?
By: Maj Gen SB Asthana | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Aug , 2021
Backdrop As Taliban, captures two provincial capitals, UN envoy has reported to UNSC about Afghan war entering deadlier and more destructive phase, with over 1000 civilian casualties.US may have...
India must counter China's imperial ambitions
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Vol 24.4 Oct-Dec 2009 | Date: 06 Aug , 2021
First published on IDR print Issue Vol 24.4 Oct-Dec 2009. New Delhi cannot afford to sit around while others plot its destruction. Surrounded with sullied strategic environment and the spreading...
How Article 370 Abrogation Wrecked Pakistan’s Contrived Kashmir Narrative
By: Nilesh Kunwar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Aug , 2021
If rhetoric alone was the deciding factor on the issue of Kashmir, then Pakistan would undoubtedly have won its case hands down. Fortunately, things don’t happen that way in real life, something...
Taliban Surge in Afghanistan: Calibrating Indian Response
By: Lt Gen Rameshwar Yadav | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 Aug , 2021
The US draw down from Afghanistan has opened up political space for grabs resulting in unprecedented violence by Taliban to seize power. They are obviously not confident of their popularity to...
China in Nuclear Arms Control Treaty
By: Col RN Ghosh Dastidar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 Aug , 2021
On 28 July 21, most leading newspapers in the world published the news of Federation of American Scientists, stating that China is building a second field of nuclear silos for launching nuclear...
Anthony Blinken’s Visit – and future Indo-US trajectory?
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Aug , 2021
US Secretary of State Anthony J Blinken arrived on his maiden two-day visit to India on July 27. Concurrently, US State Department spokesperson Ned Price stated that: America is excited to expand...
Chinese- Checkers in Maldives
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Jul , 2021
Certain events in Maldives since May 2021 are significant for India-Maldives relations. On May 6, an assassination attempt was made against Mohamed Nasheed, current speaker of Maldives Parliament...
Taliban’s Second Coming Implications for J&K
By: Lt Gen Bhopinder Singh (Retd) | Issue: Courtesy: www.dailyexcelsior.com | Date: 28 Jul , 2021
If there was any doubt about the ground surge of the Taliban in Afghanistan, the US Chairperson of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Milley, has confirmed that the, ‘Strategic momentum...
Xi Jinping’s Tibet Visit Signals Hardened Chinese Position on Border Issue...
By: admin | Date: 28 Jul , 2021
Maldives and Indian Relationship Crisis
By: Col (Dr) PK Vasudeva | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 Jul , 2021
Maldives and India are having a relationship crisis due to recurring articles and social media posts attacking the dignity of the Indian High Commission office in the Maldives. The Indian High...
National Mobilizations Will Push Back Taliban: General Ata Mohammad Noor
By: Manish Rai | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 Jul , 2021
General Ata Mohammad Noor, Leader of Jamiat-e Islami Afghanistan and the Former Governor of Balkh Province have been the most important strongman and commander in North Afghanistan. Currently,...
Democratic Quad versus China Quad
By: KN Pandita | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 Jul , 2021
PLA centenary celebration has generated over-confidence in the Peoples’ Republic of China. Together with that, President Xi’s aggressive tone does not reflect a conciliatory mood towards her...
Now, Taliban controls Pakistan
By: Maj Gen Harsha Kakar | Issue: Courtesy: www.defenceinfo.com | Date: 22 Jul , 2021
Imran Khan in an interview with the New York Times, stated, ‘Given that the US gave a date of withdrawal, from then onward, our leverage diminished on the Taliban. And the reason is that the...
Afghanistan: A Way Ahead
By: Lt Gen PG Kamath | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Jul , 2021
Pakistan is sitting pretty looking at the crumbling of Ashraf Ghani’s government in Afghanistan. All the terrorists’ groups nurtured and trained in Pakistan against various countries like...
Rebranding of terrorists in Syria
By: Slavisha Batko Milacic | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 Jul , 2021
Just a few months since Joe Biden’s election, US idea of terrorism has radically changed. With the media having spared no effort making people believe that the real terrorists are indeed the...