Geopolitics
Why an Invasion of Taiwan is not Xi Jinping’s Immediate Priority
By: Col Deepak Kumar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Jan , 2023
Reunification of Taiwan with mainland China has been the generation long ambition of the present lot of leaders of the Chinese Communist Party. During many Congresses of the Communist Party this...
Pakistan Army’s Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan Problem
By: Nilesh Kunwar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Jan , 2023
To be on the same page with Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari is certainly not a compliment. Hence, when I say that by expressing the “hope that the establishment’s...
Pakistan in Hot Soup
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Jan , 2023
Pakistani historian and academic FS Aijazuddin wrote in a recent article, “At the moment, Pakistan, like some charpoy left out in the rain, is precariously balanced on its four uneven corners....
India-US Military Exercises and China’s Woes: Stop Reacting, Start Responding
By: Dr Rajasimman Sundaram | Issue: Vol. 37.4, Oct-Dec 2022 | Date: 05 Jan , 2023
The state of Sino-Indian bilateral relations according to India’s Foreign Minister and former Foreign Secretary Dr Subrahmanyam Jaishankar is ‘not normal’. Even while the militaries of both...
Why Anti-Taliban Resistance Should be Supported
By: Manish Rai | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 Jan , 2023
Recently the Taliban have ordered an indefinite ban on university education for the country’s women. The Ministry of Higher Education stated this in a letter issued to all government and...
Pakistan’s War on Terror: Just Sound and Fury?
By: Nilesh Kunwar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Jan , 2023
Déjà vu In the first corps commanders’ conference chaired by Pakistan Army Chief Gen Asif Munir which concluded recently, it was “resolved to fight against terrorists without any...
Managing Dragon’s Consistent Perfidy
By: Lt Gen Kamal Davar (Retd) | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 Dec , 2022
The phenomenal rise in the past two decades or so of the global hegemon, China, is unquestionably one of the major challenges confronting peace loving and international laws-abiding nations...
Escalating-Level of Crisis and Widening Geo-political Divides Hitting...
By: Neelapu Shanti | Issue: Vol. 37.4, Oct-Dec 2022 | Date: 29 Dec , 2022
Afghanistan is riven by geopolitical divides, conflicts, and instability for decades which inflicted incalculable damage and the unflinching testimonies of a future of constant crises and...
Egypt Until Democracy
By: Dr Pushpa Adhikari | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Dec , 2022
Introduction River valleys and deltas are the known cradles of civilization all over the world. Situated in the northeastern corner of Africa, Egypt is one of the principal civilizations of...
Turkey’s Rise in the Security Sphere: Can Turkey Sustain it or will She...
By: Danvir Singh | Issue: Vol. 37.4, Oct-Dec 2022 | Date: 27 Dec , 2022
Turkey’s geo-strategic location in Europe gives it a unique bridging ability between Russia and the West. Turkey’s geo-political influence expands across continents, from states on its...
China Wins Nepal Again
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 Dec , 2022
The Nepali Congress emerged as the single largest party winning 89 seats in the recent General Elections in Nepal to elect the 275 members of the House of Representatives; 165 members from...
Dark secrets of the Ukrainian conflict
By: Slavisha Batko Milacic | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Dec , 2022
In December of this year, another report appeared in the Russian media telling about the plight of the wounded Ukrainian military. In particular, the Russians point out that some of the...
Today’s Era is Not of War: A Strong Nation Needs a Strong Military
By: Lt Gen (Dr) JS Bajwa | Issue: Vol. 37.4, Oct-Dec 2022 | Date: 20 Dec , 2022
"Today’s Era is Not of War: A Strong Nation Needs a Strong Military" “I know today’s era is not of war…… that democracy, diplomacy and dialogue touch the entire world”. Prime...
Violence Upsurge in South Asia
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Dec , 2022
There is a sudden spurt of violence in South Asia. The Afghanistan-Pakistan border is afire. Pakistan had reported seven civilians killed in the recent incident of exchange of fire between the...
Tighter China-Saudi Embrace
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Dec , 2022
The superlative welcome accorded to Chinese President Xi Jinping at Riyadh was witnessed world over. In contrast, a ‘comparatively’ modest welcome was given to US President Joe Biden when...
First Chinese War 1840–1842
By: Thomas Carter | Issue: Book Excerpt: Medals of the British Army and how they were won | Date: 07 Dec , 2022
In consequence of the Chinese government having commenced summary measures without sufficient previous notice, the British superintendents of trade applied to the Governor-General of India for a...
The Impossibility of Ukraine Ceasefire
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Dec , 2022
A recent telephone call from German Chancellor Olof Scholz to Russian President Vladimir Putin has triggered speculation about a possible ceasefire in Ukraine. But Scholz is a messenger boy of...
Gen Asim Muneer inherits a can of worms
By: KN Pandita | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 Dec , 2022
“The banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has announced an end to the months-long “indefinite ceasefire”, accusing the government of beaching the agreement brokered by the Afghan...
Pakistan: A Promotion, Resignation and Ceasefire Retraction
By: Nilesh Kunwar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Dec , 2022
A ‘Coincidence’? Some feel that Lt Gen Asim Munir’s elevation as Pakistan army chief, resignation of former ISI chief commander of Peshawar based XXXI Corps Lt Gen Faiz Hameed and the...
The Unfulfilled Dream of India-Afghanistan on the Way of Chabahar, Wheat...
By: Asadullah Jafari “Pezhman” | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Nov , 2022
What Is the Chabahar Tripartite Project Agreement? The Chabahar trilateral economic project agreement was signed in Tehran in 2016 in the presence of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the...