Interviews/Spotlights
India’s Sub-Conventional Warfare Deficit
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Vol. 30.1 Jan-Mar 2015 | Date: 28 Aug , 2015
National security strategies should aim at the creation of national and international political conditions favourable to the protection or extension of vital national values against existing and...
The Quest for a Solution to the Kashmir Problem
By: Lt Gen (Dr) Mohan Bhandari, (Retd.) | Issue: Book Excerpt: Solving Kashmir | Date: 21 Aug , 2015
A Colonial Legacy The Kashmir problem continues to vex the two nations created out of a colonial exit which devoted limited thought on the future of such populous entities. Pakistan feels...
The border is fixed: The Simla Conference
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Book Excerpt: 1962 and the McMahon Line Saga | Date: 17 Aug , 2015
In 1913, war in Europe appeared imminent for the British; they finally realized that the treaties regarding Tibet signed with China (and Russia) had no relevance as they could not be implemented...
Indian Hypocrisy and Security
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Vol 23.1 Jan-Mar 2008 | Date: 15 Aug , 2015
For any cogent action against a potential or a festering problem, the rudimentary requirement for decision makers is to be convinced that there is a problem, and then define its import. This...
Operation Safed Sagar
By: Air Vice Marshal Satish K Jain | Issue: Vol 16.3 July-Sep 2001 | Date: 12 Aug , 2015
In the aftermath of Lahore, Feb 99, India was looking forward to easing of tensions with Pakistan. Various confidence building measures were being toyed with. There was hope. The phoney peace was...
The Panchsheel Agreement
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Book Excerpt: Tibet - The Lost Frontier | Date: 05 Aug , 2015
The “Agreement on Trade and Intercourse between the Tibet region of China and India” was signed on 29th April 1954 in Beijing by the Indian Ambassador N. Raghavan and Chang Han-fu, the Chinese...
'India First' Policy Mandatory: What they don’t teach in Indian schools!
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Vol 16.2 Apr-Jun 2001 | Date: 03 Aug , 2015
The five thousand years of civilisation we talk of can be broken in two distinct periods. The first four thousand years appear to be an age of enlightenment. Though I was not there! The last one...
Crass politicization of terrorism in India
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Aug , 2015
Ever since India began to be subjected to unremitting terrorism from Pakistan, mostly in direct collusion with the authorities in that country, there have been unmistakable signs on part of...
Dinanagar Terror Attack Attempt to revive militancy in Punjab?
By: SP Sharma | Issue: Courtesy: www.dailyexcelsior.com | Date: 29 Jul , 2015
The terror attack in Dinanagar town of Gurdaspur in Punjab and the growing incidents of terrorism in J&K coupled with frequent appearance of flags of the notorious ISIS terrorist outfit are a...
Crossing the Prohibited Line
By: Madhumanti Sen Gupta | Issue: Courtesy: Uday India | Date: 22 Jul , 2015
Four-time US president, Franklin Roosevelt could never forget his ancestral roots—in Denmark and in France. As I am putting down my thoughts on this topic, his famous words ring in my ears:...
Military Diplomacy - An Underutilised National Resource
By: Col Arjun Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Jul , 2015
In India diplomacy has so far been the domain solely of diplomats. A diplomat in India is a generalist who learns on the job, if so inclined. Modern international relations are such that...
Iraninan Breakthrough A Win Win Situation For India
By: Brig Arun Bajpai | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Jul , 2015
Let there be no doubt that Tuesday the 14 July will go down in the world history as one of the most epoch making day on which the Axis of Evil as Iran is termed by America and the Great Satan...
Expanding the EU: Changed Variables, Same Equations
By: Anant Mishra | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Jul , 2015
Since the foundation of European Union and the treaty of Rome in 1958, the question of expansion of the EU has always been a hot topic. Beginning with the “first Six”, the membership has...
Indo-Russian ties need regular nurturing for time tested friendship
By: Col (Dr) PK Vasudeva | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Jul , 2015
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit to India has served to reaffirm bilateral bonds between the two countries. Beyond the positive rhetoric – New Delhi assured Putin that Moscow will...
The Years of Hindi-Chini Bhai-Bhai
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Book Excerpt: Tibet - The Lost Frontier | Date: 03 Jul , 2015
Zhou’s First Visit to Delhi During the years following the signing of the Panchsheel Agreement, Delhi continued its efforts to champion the newly independent nations of Asia and Africa. The...
China’s move on Lakhvi not about terrorism, but about sending India and...
By: Vikram Sood | Issue: Courtesy: Economic Times | Date: 29 Jun , 2015
The Chinese bailout of Pakistan on the Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi case in the United Nations on Tuesday was as obvious as a hurtling fivetonne truck around the corner. What was more astonishing was...
Where is the LAC?
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Courtesy: http://claudearpi.blogspot.in/ | Date: 22 Jun , 2015
Once again, the LAC or Line of Actual Control has recently come in the news. The latest mention came from Beijing, where China turned down an Indian proposal to exchange maps of the LAC; a move...
'Active Defence': China’s Body Language is Aggressive
By: Brig. Gurmeet Kanwal | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Jun , 2015
China released its tenth biennial White Paper on National Defence in the last week of May 2015. Entitled “China’s Military Strategy”, this is the first White Paper that focusses on a...
Raid on insurgents heralds assertive strategy against trans-border extremism
By: Col R Hariharan | Issue: Courtesy: www.col.hariharan.info/ | Date: 12 Jun , 2015
The successful raids by Indian army commando on two camps of motley collection of Northeast insurgent groups under the leadership of the Naga Socialist Council of Nagaland-Khaplang group...
C I Operations in the Northeast
By: Brig SP Sinha | Issue: Vol 21.2 Apr-Jun 2006 | Date: 10 Jun , 2015
Prior to 20th century guerrilla warfare was regarded as purely military form of waging war. It was the weapon of the weak against the strong. The guerrillas employed ‘hit and run’ tactics...