Geopolitics
Doklam Standoff: A case of Chinese duplicity
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Courtesy: Uday India | Date: 19 Jul , 2017
Consistency has never been a virtue for the Communist rulers of China in settling their border disputes with the neigbours. They have used different principles for different countries. And this...
Iran-Pakistan Relations – turbulent times
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Jul , 2017
The Iran-Pakistan relations face turbulent times, the major reason being the same as in India-Pakistan and Afghanistan-Pakistan relations; Pakistan sponsored terrorism. In May this year, Iran...
India’s Strategic Culture: Need for Change
By: Brig. Gurmeet Kanwal | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 Jul , 2017
Alexander of Greece, the Scythians, Genghis Khan, Mahmud Ghazni (17 times), Mohammed Ghori, Timur the Lame and the Mughals, among others, all invaded India through the Khyber Pass. Less than 400...
Third Country Threat in Kashmir – More Chinese Subterfuge
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Jul , 2017
The dirty mind games of the Communist Party of China (CPC) continue unabated, especially through one of its slimy mouthpieces ‘Global Times’, be it through editorials or articles. The...
Are Nuclear Weapons Losing their Sheen of Strategic Deterrence?
By: Lt Gen (Dr) JS Bajwa | Issue: Vol. 32.2 Apr-Jun 2017 | Date: 12 Jul , 2017
“A process of interacting expectations with additional motive for attack being produced by successive cycles of ‘He thinks we think he thinks we think… He thinks we think he will attack; so...
The Mask of Xi Jinping
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Jul , 2017
There is considerable enthusiasm over the meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping during the informal BRICS meeting on the sidelines of the recent G-20...
India-China Doklam Plateau Standoff: A ‘Wei Qi’ Perspective
By: Maj Gen Rajiv Narayanan, AVSM, VSM | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Jul , 2017
The current stand-off should be seen in Bhutan should be seen in the larger perspective of China’s strategy in the region based on the rules of its ancient game of ‘Wei Qi’ or Go - an...
China’s Unabated Cartographic Aggression
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Jul , 2017
China’s global cartographic aggression has no parallel. The periodicity with which China changes its territorial claims gives an indication that the Communist Party of China (CPC) treats maps...
The PLA Army: Vision 2025
By: Maj Gen Sheru Thapliyal, PhD | Issue: Vol. 32.2 Apr-Jun 2017 | Date: 05 Jul , 2017
The Chinese have long realised that technology is the cutting edge in modern combat. Accordingly, China has embarked on an ambitious programme to revamp its technological capability and this...
China’s Chumbi Valley Shenanigans India Must Act Tough
By: Brig Arun Bajpai | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 Jul , 2017
Against China's objections when India allowed Dalai Lama to visit Arunachal Pradesh a few months back, China was all balloons and blunderbuss, shouting and ranting but did not go beyond that....
Doklam Plateau Faceoff: The Way Forward
By: Maj Gen SB Asthana | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Jul , 2017
The recent Faceoff in strategically important India-China-Bhutan border triangle near Doklam Plateau, commencing with Chinese road construction activity in Bhutanese territory (As per laid down...
Jostling by PLA at Doklam to Stake Illegal Claims
By: Lt Gen (Dr) JS Bajwa | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Jul , 2017
Yatris bound for Kailash-Mansarovar (KM) via the Nathu La in Eastern Sikkim were in for a shock – their Yatra was terminated at Nathu La without even a hint. The initial reason conveyed was that...
China: Breach of Agreement of Kailash Mansarovar pilgrimage confirms Chinese...
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 Jun , 2017
When the rabid Chinese media says that India “needs to be taught the rules”, it must be understood that: total Chinese media services the Chinese Communist Party (CPC) – stenographers of...
Global Terrorist: Is Pakistan challenging the US?
By: Brig Arun Bajpai | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 Jun , 2017
Hours before the first meeting of Indian Prime Minister Mr Narendra Modi with American President Donald Trump at White House in Washington DC on 26 Jun, US declared head of Kashmiri terror...
Chinese Killings in Pakistan – very much linked to CPEC
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Jun , 2017
The killing of Chinese nationals Lee Zingyang (24) and Meng Lisi (26) in Pakistan post abduction from Quetta, capital of Balochistan, on May 24 was hardly a stray incident. Had the killings not...
Indo-US Relations in 100 Days of Trump and Thereafter
By: Air Marshal Dhiraj Kukreja | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Jun , 2017
In the closing stages of the primaries in USA, Ms Hillary Clinton, would not have seen herself, in her wildest of dreams, out of the Oval Office in the White House. President Donald trump...
War & Peace in the West Bank: Comparisons and Differences between Israel &...
By: Dr Amarjit Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 Jun , 2017
Fifty years ago, between June 5 and 10, 1967, Arab countries ganged up on Israel – Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and Lebanon -- forcing Israel’s hand against bellicose Arab...
A Saudi-Pak Nuclear Nexus in the Offing?
By: Harsh Vasani | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Jun , 2017
With the Trump administration’s reluctant acceptance of the Iran Nuclear Deal, the spotlight is back on Saudi Arabia’s nuclear ambitions. Riyadh is vociferously against the deal that seeks to...
Lone Wolf Jihadi Terror
By: Brig Arun Bajpai | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Jun , 2017
Three major jihadi terror attacks in Britain in last three months causing big loss to life and limb to Britons and before that in France with Germany not excluded, the European countries...
Achilles Heel in India’s Border Defence with China!
By: Col Rajinder Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Jun , 2017
India has 3488 Km long Line of Actual control border with China, running through J&K, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh. It can be divided into three sectors I.e....