Geopolitics
Terror in Europe: Assessing the Security Infrastructure
By: Anant Mishra | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 Apr , 2017
After witnessing acute violence and terror during World War I and World War II, the west changed its policies towards peace and harmony, a mindset towards development and strength. Today, the...
Dual Infrastructure in Tibet: A Threatening Scenario for India?
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Book Excerpt: China: Threat or Challenge? | Date: 01 Apr , 2017
The Historic Relations The story started millions years ago when the Indian island collided with the Asian plate. Without this collision, life could have continued for eternity undisturbed on the...
Trump’s World and its Impact on India
By: Brig Deepak Sinha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 Mar , 2017
In what has come to be termed as the “Asian Century”, it was just a matter of time before the world’s oldest democracy, the United States of America, began to follow in the footsteps of the...
CPEC: Opportunity of Killing Two Birds with One Stone
By: Adarsh Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 Mar , 2017
The China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), Part of Chinese larger flagship project, One Belt One Road (OBOR) is termed as a ‘game changer’ and has dominated the imagination of strategic...
London Westminster Bridge attacks: Another ISIS ‘lone wolf’ ?
By: Rakesh Kr Sinha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Mar , 2017
The terrorist attack near the British Parliament in which a man rammed a car into pedestrians on Westminster Bridge in London, resembles a common pattern by attackers who have been widely called...
China: India’s Biggest Challenge
By: Jayadeva Ranade | Issue: Book Excerpt: China: Threat or Challenge? | Date: 27 Mar , 2017
China is India’s biggest challenge. It is a threat to its security, its aspirations and environmental space. As China’s economic and military might grow and it pursues the ‘China Dream’,...
Democracy and Freedom in Post-Soviet Central Asia
By: Martand Jha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Mar , 2017
In the words of Central Asian expert, Arne Seifert, “Authoritarian regimes, “clan-bureaucratic” capitalism, high levels of socio-economic inequality and social exclusion, precarious living...
Bull in the China Shop: The Indian Army vs The PLA
By: Brig Deepak Sinha | Issue: Vol. 31.1 Jan-Mar 2016 | Date: 22 Mar , 2017
One would expect that the Indian armed forces, more than fifty years of their confrontation with the PLA, would be pretty knowledgeable not only about their organisational table, capabilities and...
Why Chabahar Deal is so Important for India?
By: Martand Jha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Mar , 2017
The Chabahar deal is an extremely important strategic decision which would help India to get a transit route to Afghanistan and further to Central Asian region and beyond. This 500 million $...
Military courts in Pakistan: A failed state syndrome
By: Rakesh Kr Sinha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 Mar , 2017
Pakistani media has reported that the political parties have agreed to revive the Military Courts for trying “hardcore” militants for a period of two years for which a Bill will be tabled in...
Pakistan poised to devour Gilgit-Baltistan: India ambivalent!!
By: Col Jaibans Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Mar , 2017
Finally the cat is out of the bag!! Pakistan has made it known that it will proceed towards amending its Constitution to amalgamate Gilgit-Baltistan as its fifth province. The honour of making...
CPEC & India’s Challenge
By: George Chakko | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Mar , 2017
The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) has drawn strong interests of not only the two partners, but also the attention of entire West-, Central- and South Asian nations plus Russia, if not...
Russia’s Pakistan Epiphany
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Mar , 2017
The terrorist attack on Sardar Daud military hospital in Kabul on March 8, killing over 30 and injuring 50 plus underscores the worsening security situation in Afghanistan. The Islamic State has...
Indo-Pak Cricket Diplomacy: Tracing Its Origin and Growth
By: Martand Jha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Mar , 2017
India and Pakistan are two cricket crazy nations and whenever these two teams clash with each other, it creates a very ‘unique aura’ around it both inside and outside the stadium where the...
India’s Geostrategic Imperatives in 2017
By: Lt Gen (Dr) JS Bajwa | Issue: Vol. 32.1 Jan-Mar 2017 | Date: 05 Mar , 2017
“When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, Sir?” — John Maynard Keynes With the dawn of every New Year, experts of the strategic community undertake an exercise to take stock...
Looking at Central Asia – India’s Extended Neighbourhood
By: Martand Jha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 Mar , 2017
Central Asian Region (CAR) is considered to be the part of India’s ‘extended neighbourhood’. Central Asia of today consists of five nations namely; Kazakhstan, Kirghizstan, Tajikistan,...
WMD’s Revisited: The Massive Disinformation Campaign
By: Dr Amarjit Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Mar , 2017
Fourteen years after the grand invasion of Iraq by USA -- what became known as the second Gulf War -- there is still a lot of disinformation pertaining to WMD’s in Iraq. Recall that one of...
China ready to safeguard security of North Korea in case of Regime collapse
By: Maj Gen SB Asthana | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 Feb , 2017
The statement of Chinese Defence spokesman Ren Guoqiang to indicate that China will take the “necessary measures” to safeguard national security in the event of the collapse of the...
South China Sea Imbroglio: PLA’s Grand Strategy of ‘Unrestricted Warfare’
By: Maj Gen Rajiv Narayanan, AVSM, VSM | Issue: Vol. 31.4 Oct-Dec 2016 | Date: 23 Feb , 2017
For India, these are crucial times, and it should ensure ASEAN solidarity and a joint response to this imbroglio, a united front of South China Sea claimants (the Philippines, Vietnam,...
The Curious Case of Masood Azhar
By: Bhaskar Dutta Baruah | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Feb , 2017
At a time when countries across the globe are taking serious looks at their internal security due to Islamic Terrorism, India is among the few countries whose internal security is directly related...