Interviews/Spotlights
The China Factor in India’s Strategic Discourse
By: Dr Mohammed Badrul Alam | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 05 Aug , 2016
The role of China in India-Pakistan security issues as well as in future conflict scenarios is crucial when considering two factors- (a) the historical nature of 1962 war and its follow up between...
Russia-US Rapprochement: A Strategic Imperative
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 04 Aug , 2016
Russia and United States estranged relationship impinges on global security and stability with China as a ‘revisionist power’ being the major beneficiary of this estrangement and with vested...
Beyond Cartographic Assertion: A Roadmap on Pakistan Occupied Kashmir
By: Dr Priyanka Singh | Issue: Courtesy: IDSA | Date: 03 Aug , 2016
Most of India’s geopolitical vexations stem from a contested northern periphery, entailing disputes born either in the aftermath of independence or inherited from British rule. Principal among...
Not Many Understand ‘Jammu and Kashmir’
By: Ayushman Jamwal | Issue: Courtesy: www.dailyexcelsior.com | Date: 01 Aug , 2016
The crisis continues in Kashmir and the narrative is no different. In the imagination of the mainstream, the region continues to be a distant, mystical land, a poetic setting of conflict and...
Inter-State Council and Internal Security
By: Shashank Ranjan | Issue: Courtesy: IDSA | Date: 31 Jul , 2016
Chairing the 11th meeting of the Inter-State Council (ISC) on July 13, Prime Minister Narendra Modi noted that “[t]he nation can only progress if the State and the Centre work shoulder to...
India Needs to Fast-Track Securing Andaman & Nicobar Islands against...
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 30 Jul , 2016
China has cast its covetous designs on India’s Andaman & Nicobar Islands evidenced by recent Chinese statements both in New Delhi and in China. Imperatives exist of fast-track securing of these...
It is Time to Call Pakistan’s Bluff on Kashmir
By: Jai Kumar Verma | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Monitor | Date: 29 Jul , 2016
The party in power in Islamabad, Pakistan, the Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N), won 31 out of the 49 seats (direct election is held for only 41 seats) in the assembly elections of Pakistan Occupied...
Dhaka Attacks and Fallouts on India
By: Abhinav Pandya | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Jul , 2016
The attack on a restaurant in the Gulshan area, the high-profile diplomatic enclave of Dhaka, marks the formal arrival of ISIS in the Indian sub-continent. The attack is one of the typical ISIS...
India and Pakistan In A Tug-Of-War Over Stealth Fighters
By: Rakesh Krishnan Simha | Issue: Courtesy: www.swarajyamag.com | Date: 27 Jul , 2016
If India is on the verge of acquiring fifth-generation fighter aircraft, can Pakistan be far behind? With the decks cleared for the Indian Air Force (IAF) to co-produce 127 PAK-FA stealth...
A Letter to My Fellow Kashmiris
By: Col (Dr) Tej Kumar Tikoo (Retd.) | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 Jul , 2016
My Dear Fellow Kashmiris, The summer of discontent is once again haunting the Valley; not for the first time though. The loss of so many young lives, injuries to many others makes me wonder why...
Chinese Investments in Myanmar: A Dam too Far
By: Obja Borah Hazarika | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Monitor | Date: 25 Jul , 2016
In 2011, the Thein Sein-led government of Myanmar citing public protests suspended construction work of the USD 3.6 billion hydropower project called the Myitsone Dam, much to China’s chagrin....
“Make In India” Is On Track with Win-Win Partnerships in The Defence...
By: Surajit Dasgupta | Issue: Courtesy: www.swarajyamag.com | Date: 24 Jul , 2016
Boeing, Lockheed Martin and SAAB-AB have been looking for Indian partners to manufacture their respective aircraft in this country. This means that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “Make in...
Pak Army Managed PoK Assembly Elections
By: Surinder Kumar Sharma | Issue: Courtesy: www.dailyexcelsior.com | Date: 23 Jul , 2016
Even as Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is locked in a one-upmanship race with the Army Chief Gen Raheel Sharif on cornering India over violence in the Kashmir valley, Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (PoK)...
For a Few Tanks More
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Courtesy: http://claudearpi.blogspot.in/ | Date: 22 Jul , 2016
The Chinese are not happy! You may wonder why again? Last week, it was about the announcement of the verdict of the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA). The International Tribunal in The Hague...
Fight For Turkey – The Gateway To India
By: Shelley Kasli | Issue: Courtesy: www.greatgameindia.com/ | Date: 21 Jul , 2016
Coup In The Mad Sultan’s Palace An article published in March on the American Enterprise Institute’s website titled Could there be a coup in Turkey?, considered the possibility of a military...
Chinese Irredentism and the Great Rejuvenation
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Courtesy: http://claudearpi.blogspot.in/ | Date: 20 Jul , 2016
“The great rejuvenation of Chinese nation is an unstoppable historical trend that won’t be diverted by the will of any individual country or person,” is how a Chinese ‘expert’ reacted...
How much is “Maximum” for the so-called Peaceful Protests?
By: Col Jaibans Singh | Issue: Courtesy: www.defenceinfo.com | Date: 19 Jul , 2016
The ongoing wave of violence that has gripped the Kashmir Valley for the last few days, post the killing of the Hizbul Mujahedeen (HM) terrorist Burhan Wani, is causing unprecedented damage to the...
How India Bailed out The West in World War II
By: Rakesh Krishnan Simha | Issue: Courtesy: www.swarajyamag.com | Date: 18 Jul , 2016
Seventy years ago, this month, Germany surrendered to the Allies to end World War II in Europe. It is time India’s game-changing contribution to the victory is acknowledged in the actual context...
Understanding Chinese New Silk Route
By: Col JP Singh, Retd | Issue: Courtesy: www.dailyexcelsior.com | Date: 17 Jul , 2016
‘New silk route’ is a massive Chinese inter and intra continental strategic initiative which adds new roads and seaways to the historical silk route. It is a great initiative in its...
Ashraf Ghani's missive to Pakistan – appears final
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Jul , 2016
At the recent NATO summit in Warsaw, President Ashraf Ghani in his address categorically stated that peace initiatives taken by Afghanistan with Pakistan are not successful as Pakistan...