Geopolitics
India’s Extended Neighbourhood in Turmoil: Afghanistan – A Vacuum or a...
By: Lt Gen (Dr) JS Bajwa | Issue: Vol. 36.3, Jul-Sep 2021 | Date: 26 Sep , 2021
“The Iraqi and Afghan wars have not ‘ended.’ Only America’s involvement has ‘ended.’ …When a country leaves a war before achieving victory it is not called leaving. It is called...
China Afghan Taliban Awkward Embrace
By: Col (Dr) PK Vasudeva | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Sep , 2021
As the United States withdraws from Afghanistan and leaves a security vacuum there, is China moving in by cozying up to the Taliban? On July 28, Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang...
India’s Wait and Watch in Afghanistan: The Strategic Space
By: Danvir Singh | Issue: Vol. 36.3, Jul-Sep 2021 | Date: 24 Sep , 2021
Under no circumstances Pakistan will ever allow the Quetta Shura led Taliban an upper hand in the affairs of Afghanistan. It comes as little surprise to witness the return of Taliban fighters...
Pakistan’s Achilles Heel
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Sep , 2021
Pakistan’s foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi, a hard-line radical who also served on Pervez Musharraf’s cabinet, recently offered conditional amnesty to the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan...
Will the AUKUS alliance eclipse the Quad?
By: KN Pandita | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Sep , 2021
The trilateral alliance among Australia, UK and the US (AUKUS), recently announced by President Biden from the White House, has given rise to two controversies. One is whether it undervalues and...
US Boots-on-the-Ground in India?: Focus on Afghanistan
By: Maj Gen S G Vombatkere | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Sep , 2021
The US Administration is embarrassed by its capitulation to Taliban (signing a peace treaty with Taliban at Doha, February 2020, to allow withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan), the sudden...
Durand Line not Recognised by Taliban Causing Clash with Pakistan
By: Col (Dr) PK Vasudeva | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Sep , 2021
The taking over of Afghanistan by the deadly terrorist organisation Taliban on 15 August 2021, reverabrated with celebration in Pakistan. However, Pakistani officials fear that once again the...
The world must realise that Pakistan is a rogue state
By: Col Jaibans Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Sep , 2021
The 9/11 anniversary this year has brought in its wake old memories and new horrors. After two decades and Trillions of Dollars down the drain the world is back to square one, the difference...
China’s Military Drill in Tibet a Warning to India: Experts
By: J. M. Phelps | Issue: Courtesy: The Epoch Times | Date: 15 Sep , 2021
The Chinese regime’s recent show of military strength in Tibet was an attempt to intimidate neighboring India amid heightened tensions, according to two former high-ranking military officers....
The Quandary in Counterterrorism
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Sep , 2021
Calls for the world to unite against terrorism in all forms in bilateral and multilateral forums are not new. India has been suffering cross border terrorism past three decades plus. Forbes had...
Beyond ‘Wait and Watch’ in Afghanistan: Global Implications
By: Maj Gen SB Asthana | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Sep , 2021
Backdrop Taliban supported by Pakistan took over Afghanistan by force, amidst an embarrassing, botched withdrawal of US and allies, posing a façade of negotiated takeover. With announcement of...
It’s Time Pakistan Either ‘Reforms’ or Finds Another ‘Whipping Boy’
By: Nilesh Kunwar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Sep , 2021
Ever since its creation, Pakistan has found a convenient ‘whipping boy’ in India for two reasons. One, by portraying its Eastern neighbour as a ‘Hindu nation’,it becomes very easy to...
Battle for Panjshir
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Sep , 2021
The Taliban claimed on September 6 that they have captured Panjshir Valley and overcome the anti-Taliban forces of the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan (NRFA) led by Ahmad Massoud. The...
What Should India do to Protect its Interest in Afghanistan
By: Deepak Kumar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Sep , 2021
Afghanistan geo-strategically is extremely important country for India. To reach Central Asian Republics and counterbalancing the influence of China and Pakistan in North-West Frontier region,...
Taliban Recognition: To do or Not to do?
By: Lt Gen PG Kamath | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Sep , 2021
This is one question that is tormenting our government; should we or should we not recognise the Taliban? If we have to recognise it then when should we do it? The present thought process is...
Havana Syndrome Directed Energy Weapons and Contactless Warfare of Future
By: Dr Sharad S Chauhan | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Sep , 2021
The Havana Syndrome and Moscow Signal US Vice-President Kamala Harris's flight to Vietnam was delayed by several hours in August as per the statement of the US State Department due to an...
Colombo’s Debt is Beijing’s Delight
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Sep , 2021
News reports of July 6, 2021, indicated that the debt default probability by Sri Lanka in one year was the steepest in Asia-Pacific; up from 13 percent about six months ago to 27.9 percent -...
Is the U.S. Outsourcing Afghanistan to the TALIBAN?
By: Sanjeev Nayyar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 Sep , 2021
Most people are unable to comprehend U.S. overtures to the Taliban, its sharing of intelligence with them and leaving behind significant amount of arms and equipment in Afghanistan. Taliban is...
Taliban and the Kabul Twin Attacks
By: Nilesh Kunwar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 Aug , 2021
A tragedy in making It was former US President John F Kennedy who came up with the sagacious suggestion that “Let us never negotiate out of fear; but let us never fear to negotiate.” However,...
Re-Emergence of Global Terror
By: Lt Gen Kamal Davar (Retd) | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 Aug , 2021
That Terrorism is the scourge of the world is a harsh truism of the times is beyond dispute since the last few decades. That global challenges necessitate global solutions requires no elaboration...