Geopolitics
Indo-US Relations : Will They be Trumped
By: Air Marshal Dhiraj Kukreja | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Feb , 2017
India has an opportunity, and should seize it, without delay or any hedging. This does not mean going along with whatever President Trump says. If he wishes to pursue an “America First”...
Iran under Sanctions, Hafiz Saeed’s House Arrest: Trump’s shockwaves...
By: Maj Gen SB Asthana | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Feb , 2017
Fresh Sanctions on Iran As per BBC, On February 3, 2017, The Trump administration has imposed sanctions on Iran following its recent ballistic missile test, after their National Security...
Understanding US Election Result
By: Col Anil Athale | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Feb , 2017
Any student of international affairs and security issues will be forced to have reasonable understanding of the US domestic dynamics since the US plays a vital role all over the world. I have...
Pakistan Projected Rail Accidents, Time India Learns To Retaliate In Kind
By: Brig Arun Bajpai | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Feb , 2017
Famous German political scientist Hein Kiessling’s new book on Pakistani intelligence agency ISI is in the market by the name ‘Faith, Unity and Discipline’. In this book he says that ISI...
India-China Relations: Any Way Forward?
By: Sumant Dhamija | Issue: Vol. 31.4 Oct-Dec 2016 | Date: 04 Feb , 2017
It has been said that engaging China is like trying to wake someone pretending to be asleep. Certainly it involves trying to be neighbourly with a country that does not desire friendship. But...
The Correlation between Institution Building and Great Power Making
By: Martand Jha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Feb , 2017
In the great power making, institutions have a vital role to play. Institutions are the backbone of societies as they contribute immensely in their overall progress and development; it becomes...
Is China a Threat to the Indian Economy?
By: Aravind Yelery | Issue: Book Excerpt: China: Threat or Challenge? | Date: 02 Feb , 2017
The Asian economies occupy a central position in the global economic and trade affairs. Although, each Asian economy has its own political paradigm, patterns of domestic growth and international...
Civilian Rule is Repugnant to Pakistan
By: VBN Ram | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Feb , 2017
Former Pakistan President and Army Chief Gen Parvez Musharraf has made no bones of the fact the country is unsuited to civilian rule. It is no irony, therefore, that by imposing the emergency in...
Making a Distinction between War Injured and War Disabled
By: Martand Jha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 Jan , 2017
The entire human civilization has been plagued by countless wars since time and immemorial; to an extent that ‘war’ and ‘peace’ are referred as two sides of the same coin. The core...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s new thrust to his Indo-Pacific Diplomacy
By: Prof K.V. Kesavan | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 Jan , 2017
The New Year started with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe undertaking a whirlwind trip to four ASEAN countries with a view to further strengthening Japan’s ties with them. The countries he...
Strategic Bungling Emboldens Hostile Neighbours
By: Sudip Talukdar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Jan , 2017
Disconnect between appearance and reality, so powerfully dramatized by Shakespeare in Hamlet, remains the bane of politics in India. On the one hand, it explains why the country is sinking deeper...
Putin’s Spy Game: Dawn of a New Cold War
By: Dheeraj P C | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 Jan , 2017
A “new cold war” has begun to emerge and in the shadow wars between the US and Russia, the Russians certainly seem to have an edge over. One of the reasons the Cold War remained ‘cold’...
Is it Role Reversal? Protectionist Trump – America First, or China Going...
By: Maj Gen SB Asthana | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Jan , 2017
President Donald Trump’s swearing in speech from Capitol Hill on January 20, 2017, resonating “America First” policy, appeared as an extension of election rhetoric, reassuring his voters...
Oil – Gainers and Losers
By: Air Marshal Dhiraj Kukreja | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Jan , 2017
Introduction A fluctuation in the world oil market manifests itself on nations in a myriad of ways; an increase in the price leads to inflation in the oil-importing nations, whereas...
Nicobar as an IAF base in the Indian Ocean: Strategic Asset or Liability?
By: Special Correspondent | Issue: Vol. 31.4 Oct-Dec 2016 | Date: 21 Jan , 2017
The Indian Ocean Region (IOR) is slowly but surely turning out to be an area where there would be or perhaps there already is a conflict of interest between China and India. At the opening of the...
Dynamics of China’s Future Warfighting Potential
By: Lt Gen (Dr) JS Bajwa | Issue: Book Excerpt: China: Threat or Challenge? | Date: 20 Jan , 2017
Preamble The impact of history, geographic position, culture, political system and myriad other factors on strategic and military decision makers is essential to draw comprehensive and complete...
Government’s New Defence Initiative: Committee of Experts
By: Lt Gen Gautam Banerjee | Issue: Vol. 31.4 Oct-Dec 2016 | Date: 19 Jan , 2017
In convening the Review, the MoD has treaded a path of wisdom and it needs to be congratulated on this initiative. But to ensure that the path is not lost to wilderness, it needs to be considered...
De-radicalization – Alien Word or Playing Kho-Kho?
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Jan , 2017
The west coined a unique term called “violent extremism” implying that action needed to be taken once the extremist turned violent. Now take the Sarin Gas attack on the Tokyo Subway on 20...
Masood Azhar: An Albatross around India’s Neck
By: VBN Ram | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 Jan , 2017
On every occasion the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) is unable to sanction Maulana Masood Azhar under the UNSC Resolution 1267 – the ISI in Pakistan, its clergy and the Pakistani Taliban...
China’s counterspace program to gain parity with the US
By: Harsh Vasani | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Jan , 2017
In the study of Geopolitics, scholars have come to accept outer space as the “fourth frontier of war” that has the potential to decide the course of a war. In the highly “informatised”...