Geopolitics
Implications of China’s Dark Shadow in Myanmar
By: Col (Dr) P K Vasudeva | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Oct , 2020
China’s intention to make inroads into the Bay of Bengal has become clearer with President Xi Jinping’s visit to Myanmar from January 17 to January 18, 2020. It will not only boost...
The Rodents of Gupkar
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Oct , 2020
Farooq Abdullah, National Conference (NC) chief held a meeting of representatives of six J&K political parties at his residence on Gupkar Road on October 15. He announced formation the...
Is the QUAD Winding back the Clock of History?
By: Dr Rajasimman Sundaram | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Oct , 2020
While the stated strategic objective of the Quadrilateral Strategic Dialogue [QUAD – Japan, the US, Australia and India] is to safeguard a free, open, rule based order in the Indo-Pacific...
DAP 2020: Solid Provisions Demand Solid Implementation
By: Lt Gen VK Saxena | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Oct , 2020
https://currenthunt.com/2020/10/defence-acquisition-procedure-dap-2020/ In a span of just two months, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has taken out two important documents that will have a...
Touted as a peace deal, the Taliban celebrates U.S. withdrawal as a victory
By: Terry Bishop | Issue: Vol. Apr-Jun 2020, (35.2) & Jul-Sep 2020, (35.3) | Date: 14 Oct , 2020
The Taliban have said that their attacks on Afghan forces do not violate the withdrawal agreement. In addition, the Taliban’s online platform, Nawai Afghan Jihad (the Voice of Afghan Jihad),...
Quad’s Tokyo Meet – more rhetoric
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Oct , 2020
The second quadrilateral meeting of US, India, Japan and Australia was held at Tokyo on October 6, 2020, first such meet having been held in New York in September 2019. The second meeting was in...
Why China is so sensitive about Taiwan
By: Brig Anil Gupta | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Oct , 2020
In an unprecedented move Chinese embassy in New Delhi has issued a series of directives to Indian media and media houses regarding coverage of impending National Day of Taiwan on 10th October....
Joining the Dots: Deciphering Chinese Aims and Objectives in Ladakh
By: Lt Gen Rameshwar Yadav | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Oct , 2020
China clearly violated the sanctity of agreements on peace and tranquility when they attempted to encroach upon tracks in Ladakh on the quiet by diverting their formations conducting routine...
After the 2020 Indo-China Silent War
By: Danvir Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Oct , 2020
The definition was never so emphatic before, as it was when the four met on Oct 06, 2020 in Tokyo. They sounded more like an alliance than any informal grouping. This time pledging to make the...
Contemplating the Amended Paradigm
By: Lt Gen (Dr) Rakesh Sharma, PVSM,UYSM,AVSM,VSM (Retd.) | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Oct , 2020
Six months, and the external security environment of India has turned on its head! With burgeoning trade at the threshold of $100 billion and general bonhomie, China was spoken in India with...
China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC): A Review
By: Col RN Ghosh Dastidar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Oct , 2020
China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) a collection of infrastructure projects, is the flagship project of China’s Belt Road Initiative (BRI), inked in 2013 with an original outlay of $ 46...
Caucasus on the Boil Again – Battle of Nagorno-Karabakh
By: Brig Anil Gupta | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Oct , 2020
While the global community was glued to Eastern Ladakh and South China Sea as flash points that may endanger the global peace due to growing Chinese belligerence because of the dissension at home...
Trans-Himalaya: An Odyssey along the India-Tibet Border
By: Lt Col Harish Kohli, VSM | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 Oct , 2020
Four men and one Tibetan Mastiff, make an incredible 8,000-km journey across the wonderful but perilous Himalayan frontier. Editor’s Comments: In 1981, the then Captain Harish Kohli (an...
Oil – The Black Gold: Is it Losing its Sheen?
By: Air Marshal Dhiraj Kukreja | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Oct , 2020
Introduction Oil was the ‘Black Gold’ of the 20th century, fuelling vehicles, wars, the world economy and, hence, its geopolitics. Today, the world is in the midst of an energy shock that...
Maldives provides a lucky break for India
By: Maj Gen Nitin P Gadkari | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 Oct , 2020
When an Indian Air Force IL 76 bringing a Para Battalion and supporting artillery from the Para Brigade landed on Male airport in November of 1988, little, did they realise that the opposition to...
Is COVID-19 Bio Warfare? Is there an Information Warfare Going On?
By: Lt Gen Dushyant Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Oct , 2020
China witnessed the first case possibly in early Dec 19, by the time it realized that it was facing a crisis of an unknown and unparalleled nature it was middle of Dec 19. WHO declared it as...
China’s belligerence betrays its desire to dominate the Indo-Pacific Region
By: Col (Dr) Tej Kumar Tikoo (Retd.) | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 Sep , 2020
Ever since the Communists came to power in China in 1949, their leaders gave enough hints to convey that the success of communist revolution was only a beginning of ushering in tectonic shift in...
Beijing is an no mood to Stick to the Decision taken during Sino-Indian...
By: Col (Dr) P K Vasudeva | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Sep , 2020
The way the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has deployed its troops and the armament in Ladakh and Arunachal and so has India matched its forces in equal numbers, it does not indicate that India...
Winter only Affects Scale of Operations
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 Sep , 2020
Chinese President Xi Jinping’s speech via video link to the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on September 22 was on expected lines – rambling on issues that China (read he and...
Did a Global Pandemic Generate a Global Pandemonium?
By: Lt Gen (Dr) JS Bajwa | Issue: Vol. Apr-Jun 2020, (35.2) & Jul-Sep 2020, (35.3) | Date: 26 Sep , 2020
“The state... always feels itself weak if there is another that is stronger. Its security and preservation demand that it make itself more powerful than its neighbours. It can increase, nourish...