Geopolitics

Nicobar as an IAF base in the Indian Ocean: Strategic Asset or Liability?

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...

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Dynamics of China’s Future Warfighting Potential

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...

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Government’s New Defence Initiative: Committee of Experts

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...

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De-radicalization – Alien Word or Playing Kho-Kho?

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...

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Masood Azhar: An Albatross around India’s Neck

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...

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China’s counterspace program to gain parity with the US

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”...

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Pakistan’s Nuclear Arsenal – The Babur-Nasr are Quick First Use, Not...

Pakistan’s Nuclear Arsenal – The Babur-Nasr are Quick First Use, Not...

By: Navneet Bhushan | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Jan , 2017

The report of a successful test of a submarine launched cruise missile, Babur III, by Pakistan claims achievement of second strike capability by Pakistan. It is unambiguously clear that...

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70 Years on, has India Learnt any Lessons?

70 Years on, has India Learnt any Lessons?

By: Sudip Talukdar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Jan , 2017

Has India ever learnt any lessons from the colossal blunders committed at random through 70 years of independence? It seems extremely doubtful in the light of its dealings with China and Pakistan....

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Predicting 2017

Predicting 2017

By: Air Marshal Dhiraj Kukreja | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Jan , 2017

2016 was a bizarre year in many ways, and if one thought it cannot get anymore bumpy, one is for a surprise. The new-year, 2017, appears to be one year that the world and India needs to be...

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Analyzing the Indian Foreign Policy in 2016: A Review

Analyzing the Indian Foreign Policy in 2016: A Review

By: Martand Jha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 Jan , 2017

As the year 2016 came to an end, one can look back and assess how the year has been for India in terms of its engagements with the other states in the international system. The year 2016 started...

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A Quick Check on Pakistan’s Isolation

A Quick Check on Pakistan’s Isolation

By: Adarsh Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Jan , 2017

It has been more than three months since Uri terror attack, which was aided and abetted by Pakistan based terror groups. Indian government under PM Modi made an all out effort to isolate Pakistan...

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Indo-Russia Relations at 25…

Indo-Russia Relations at 25…

By: Martand Jha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 Dec , 2016

This month marks the twenty-five years since the end of cold war way back in 1991 when   USSR, one of the two superpowers in the international system, dissolved into fifteen new independent...

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Aamir Riaz Inviting India to Join CPEC – What Were His Motives?

Aamir Riaz Inviting India to Join CPEC – What Were His Motives?

By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Dec , 2016

According to news from Islamabad says that in a “surprise move”, Aamir Riaz, commanding Pakistan’s Southern Command has said that India should join the China Pakistan Economic Corridor...

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Heating up of Cold War: Paradigm shift in Players and Dimensions

Heating up of Cold War: Paradigm shift in Players and Dimensions

By: Maj Gen SB Asthana | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Dec , 2016

US Versus China The ‘Cold war’ of 20th century has taken a Paradigm shift in 21st Century, is heating up with new players and expanding to new dimensions.  The latest and largest player to...

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Why the visit of Indonesian President was Important

Why the visit of Indonesian President was Important

By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 Dec , 2016

Many may be unaware that President Sukarno, first President of Indonesia had led his country’s freedom struggle for Independence from the Netherlands was the first President of Indonesia,...

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The New Cold War: American Jihadis vs Russian Jihadis

The New Cold War: American Jihadis vs Russian Jihadis

By: RSN Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Dec , 2016

A strategically revolutionary statement has been ascribed to a high ranking Russian foreign ministry official, Zamir Kabulov, that his country’s interests are same as Taliban (Afghan Taliban) in...

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China Belching Fire – Signaling or Insecure?

China Belching Fire – Signaling or Insecure?

By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Dec , 2016

After China tested the simultaneous launch of 10 x DF-21 missiles in a single salvo during November 2016, a dispatch from Xinhua, China’s official news agency reported that the missiles “can...

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Armed with proxies, China wants mediator role in Myanmar

Armed with proxies, China wants mediator role in Myanmar

By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Dec , 2016

In a recent article titled ‘China and Its Neighbors: A Delicate Balance - Understanding Chinese behavior from the Pacific to the Himalayas’ by Liu Xuejun and Liu Jun, two Yunnan based Chinese...

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Hegemonic Global Competition in the 21st Century

Hegemonic Global Competition in the 21st Century

By: Lt Gen HPS Klair | Issue: Vol. 31.4 Oct-Dec 2016 | Date: 10 Dec , 2016

It is evident that the Great Power rivalry of the 21st Century has begun, which in Mackinder’s words, “Man and not nature initiates, but nature in large measure controls.” His prediction of...

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Winning the Asymmetric Wars: Matrix of Instruments of War

Winning the Asymmetric Wars: Matrix of Instruments of War

By: Navneet Bhushan | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Dec , 2016

Using Ivan Arreguin Toft’s hypothesis of strategic interaction proposed and studied on a sample of asymmetric conflicts since year 1800,in “How the weak win wars – a theory of asymmetric...

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