Geopolitics
Indo Soviet relations need reboot?
By: Brig Arun Bajpai | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Oct , 2016
Two happenings of past three weeks, though unrelated have great perceptual relevance concerning Indo-Soviet relations as they stand today. On 18 Sep the Pakistan Army sponsored jihadis stuck the...
India-China: Rasputin, Unholy Geopol and Chicken Sandwich
By: Bhaskar Dutta Baruah | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 Oct , 2016
When China occupied Tibet, Prime Minister Nehru’s brows should have perspired, because he now had a monstrous red dragon to deal with, even as he struggled with mad dog Pakistan. But Defence...
CPEC, its economic viability and options for India
By: Sumit Walia | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Oct , 2016
We all have heard enough of US$ 46 billion Chinese investment project in Pakistan – CPEC (China-Pakistan Economic Corridor). It is the biggest foreign investment committed by China. China has...
Indo-Pak Relations : Way Ahead
By: Lt Gen NS Bawa | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Oct , 2016
Under tremendous pressure of its population to act following the Uri attack, in which the nation lost its 18 brave soldiers (the death toll has already reached 20 with two soldiers succumbing to...
A Modi-fied Operational Art against Pakistan’s Hybrid Threat
By: Dheeraj P C | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Oct , 2016
The new Modi-fied operational art is an unprecedented change in India’s response to Pakistan’s hybrid threat because India never had an operational art. The absence of it gave Pakistan a...
The new Modi Doctrine for the Armed Forces
By: Maj Gen Rajiv Narayanan, AVSM, VSM | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Oct , 2016
During a TV discussions about the new Modi Doctrine for the Armed Forces, for operations across the Line of Control, on 02 Oct, the major points mentioned were, • No more ‘pacifism’. •...
Price of Protecting The Nation: Who is the Real Enemy?
By: Brig Narender Kumar (Retd.) | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 Oct , 2016
"When You Go Home, Tell Them Of Us And Say, For Their Tomorrow, We Gave Our Today. — The Kohima Epitaph It is past midnight, the company commander is out in an ambush expecting an...
End of Cyclic Nature of Pakistan’s Proxy War
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Oct , 2016
What India’s ‘surgical strike’ in PoK has done is that it has changed the rules of engagement in the ongoing proxy war waged by Pakistan on India since the last three decades. It was...
After Surgical Strikes: Demolish Terror Finance System
By: Rakesh Kr Sinha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Oct , 2016
The events following the Uri terrorist attacks have witnessed many diplomatic maneuverings by both India and Pakistan at the United Nations that continued at other International forums too and...
Can Pakistan’s Nuclear Blackmail Threat Against India Hold
By: Brig NK Bhatia, SM (Retd) | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Oct , 2016
Consider the following statement made by Pakistan’s Defense Minister Asif Mohammad Kwaja in an interview to Pakistan Urdu news TV channel on 26 September; “Tactical weapons, our programmes...
Why India can’t Afford a Chinese Dalai Lama
By: Bhaskar Dutta Baruah | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 Sep , 2016
A country’s defence strategy is not made after an enemy attack – steps taken during war time (or signs signalling a war) are more of a tactical nature rather than strategic. Strategy is a...
The Uri Fiasco and Ensuring Accountability
By: Brig Deepak Sinha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Sep , 2016
While it is not known as to what conclusions the Army’s Court of Inquiry has arrived at over the Uri fiasco, it needs little intuition or professional knowledge to conclude that there were...
Pak Moles: Are Peaceniks Legitimizing Acts of Rogue State?
By: Sudip Talukdar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 Sep , 2016
The Brigade of Peaceniks, comprising sundry elements in the print and electronic media, NGOs, leftists and ex-ministers, which had lain low in the initial days of the Uri attack, is once again...
No Signs of Peace in South Asia: Reflections from Uri Terror Attack
By: Indrajit Sharma | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Sep , 2016
The Global Peace Index (GPI), 2016 identifies South Asia as one of the least peaceful regions in the world. Out of the nine regions (in the world) South Asia positions at eighth. Globally, India...
Water Availability in Pakistan
By: Col Harjeet Singh | Issue: Vol 25.4 Oct-Dec 2010 | Date: 23 Sep , 2016
There appears to be a growing perception of Indian wrongdoing on water in Pakistani minds. While India–Pakistan relations are not on even keel, another canard can only add to the already...
Target China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC)
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Sep , 2016
Pakistan began by playing incendiary game in the Valley by contriving Burhan Wani as the spark. India responded by enlarging the geopolitical arena of conflict to PoK and Balochistan. If the...
Lies and More Lies : Dissecting Pak PM’s Speech at UNGA
By: Brig NK Bhatia, SM (Retd) | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Sep , 2016
Those who saw live coverage of Pakistan Prime Minister’s live speech at the 71st session of United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) would have been shocked and dismayed at the candor, demeanor...
The Silent Chinese Invasion
By: Bhaskar Dutta Baruah | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Sep , 2016
In the 1950’s the People’s Republic of China upped its ante for occupying Tibet. In the year 1959, His Holiness the Dalai Lama escaped from his land and the Chinese occupation of Tibet was...
Time to hit and hurt the Pakistan Army!
By: Brig. Gurmeet Kanwal | Issue: Courtesy: Rediff.com | Date: 19 Sep , 2016
The Pakistan-sponsored fidayeen attack on an army camp in Uri on September 18, that resulted in the martyrdom of 17 soldiers, is the worst since 2002. Though all four fidayeenwere killed, that...
Winning the Asymmetric Wars – A need for Rapid Strategic Switching
By: Navneet Bhushan | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Sep , 2016
Of the 43 asymmetric wars in the period 1950-1999, 51.2% wars have been won by the weaker actor. That the powerful will lose sometimes is in the nature of warfare, in general. However, they will...