Geopolitics
Pakistan: Land of ‘Disappearances’ and ‘Reappearances’
By: Nilesh Kunwar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Jun , 2022
Pakistan is a strange land where people seem to be ‘appearing’, ‘disappearing’ and ‘reappearing’ all the time. While this strange occurrence follows no discernable pattern, but it...
Logistics and Stamina in War
By: Lt Gen (Dr) JS Bajwa | Issue: Vol. 37.2, Apr-Jun 2022 | Date: 24 Jun , 2022
“My logisticians are a humourless lot... they know if my campaign fails, they will be the first ones I will slay.” — Alexander the Great “Logistics comprises the means and arrangements...
Pakistan Military’s Dilemma Admist a Political Turmoil
By: Danvir Singh | Issue: Vol. 37.2, Apr-Jun 2022 | Date: 22 Jun , 2022
Pakistan’s history since its creation has been full of political turbulence. Infighting amongst the provinces on linguistic and ethnic lines has always posed a unity challenge. While the power...
Trench Warfare in the 21st Century: What Satellite Imagery Analysis reveals...
By: Dr Prakash Panneerselvam And Dr Amit Mukherjee | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Jun , 2022
Introduction The characteristics of war are rapidly changing in the 21st century. This change is due to the induction of latest weapon systems that can track and destroy enemy positions with...
The Austin Guffaws
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 Jun , 2022
When US Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin visited India in March 2021, all he had to say about the Chinese invasion in Eastern Ladakh (April-May 2020) was a quip to the media saying “we never...
Biden’s Asia-Pacific Tour, Skips Visiting China
By: Hemant Adlakha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Jun , 2022
Biden concludes Asia tour, Beijing wonders if he will ever return to visit China as US President Last week, at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, 10-12 June, China issued a stern warning to...
Pakistan’s ambition for westward depth thwarted
By: KN Pandita | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Jun , 2022
Failing to grab Kashmir through proxy wars, including the ongoing one, Islamabad concentrated on two major policy decisions. One was to clandestinely carry fundamentalist-jihadist ideology to the...
Fallout of the Ukraine Conflict
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Jun , 2022
There was some panic in Delaware in the US on June 4 after a small white aircraft breached the restricted airspace of the POTUS Joe Biden’s beach house. Biden was quickly moved to a safe house...
Double standards for Erdogan
By: Slavisha Batko Milacic | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Jun , 2022
While the whole world was distracted by the Russian-Ukrainian conflict and wondered whether China would follow Moscow’s example and try to “reintegrate” Taiwan, Ankara, a member of the...
Judiciary and Pakistan’s ‘State Policy’ of Enforced Disappearances
By: Nilesh Kunwar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Jun , 2022
How acute is the chronic malaise of unchecked enforced disappearances afflicting Pakistan can be gauged from the fact that at least eight out of the top ten google search results for “land of...
Violence in India: Pakistani Game Plan
By: Col Anil Athale | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 May , 2022
There is one constant in Pakistani policy towards India for last 75 years and that is a firm belief that India cannot stay as one nation and will soon breakup into several small parts. In such a...
Assessing Pakistan’s food insecurity
By: Harsh Behere | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 May , 2022
A tormenting heat wave swept through the subcontinent aggravating non-traditional security challenges. One wonders what Kautilya would have thought sipping aampanna in this scorching heat gazing...
Defending Taiwan – Biden’s Pledge or Gaffe?
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 May , 2022
Concluding his first Asia tour, US President Joe Biden created a furious debate in global circles by telling reporters in Tokyo that the US would defend Taiwan in the event of an invasion....
Putin sacks top Generals for failure to capture Kharkiv and other Ukraine...
By: Col (Dr) PK Vasudeva | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 May , 2022
President of Russia Vladimir Putin has sacked a top General who failed to capture the Ukraine’s key city of Kharkiv whom he blames for botching his war in Ukraine. Lieutenant General Serhiy...
Pakistan: Islamabad versus Rawalpindi
By: Nilesh Kunwar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 May , 2022
Things don’t seem to be going too well for Pakistan. While the country’s financial condition continues to worsen with each passing day, with former Prime Minister Imran Khan declaring...
Anjum Accelerates Proxy War on India
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 May , 2022
It is not unusual for Pakistan to draw attention away from the turmoil within by stoking fires in India. Imran Khan is blaming America for his removal and is calling for fresh elections. The...
Xi Jinping will lead China for record third time, but is much weaker than we...
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 May , 2022
The 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) will be held in Beijing in November this year. About 2,300 delegates, representing an estimated 90 million members, will meet in...
Indo-Sino geopolitical strategies in Sri Lanka through the lenses of Buddhism
By: Punsara Amarasinghe | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 May , 2022
When Mackinder coined the phrase “Heartland Theory” in 1904, the importance of Sri Lanka as a strategic location was not widely recognized by the European powers. However, today the gravity...
Intense Tactical Battle Area
By: Col US Rathore | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 May , 2022
From many military lessons which ongoing Russo-Ukraine war can offer for study, perhaps the most noticeable is the increased range, accuracy, lethality and sophistication of the weaponry being...
Taliban on the Verge of an Inhouse Fight
By: Manish Rai | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 May , 2022
The Taliban now has firm control over Afghanistan. At this point in time, the Taliban have no opponents capable of undermining their positions in terms of military, political, or even economic...