Geopolitics
Afghan President’s Visit to India: Need to Reboot Indo-Afghan...
By: Brig NK Bhatia, SM (Retd) | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Sep , 2016
The forthcoming visit of Afghan President Ashraf Ghani to New Delhi next week would be an appropriate occasion for both the countries to re assess their relations in the backdrop of...
Raheel Sharif A Disaster For Pakistan
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Sep , 2016
The people of Pakistan owing loyalty to the State hail General Raheel Sharif as some kind of a Messiah. Such messianic inflection moments are endemic phenomenon, given the construct of the...
Pakistan Conquered
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Sep , 2016
Speaking on the occasion of Defence Day of Pakistan on September 6, army chief Raheel Sharif stated, “I want to make it clear to all enemies of Pakistan that Pakistan has always been strong and...
Balochistan issues and International Law
By: Rakesh Kr Sinha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Sep , 2016
Oppenheim defines ‘intervention’ as “dictatorial interference by a State in the affairs of another State for the purpose of maintaining or altering the actual condition of things”. The...
Modi’s Visit to Vietnam and China: The Strategic Underpinnings
By: Danvir Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 Sep , 2016
The Prime Minister of India, Mr Narendra Modi started a four-day tour on Sep 02, 2016, visiting Vietnam and later China. At Hanoi, Prime Minister Modi met President Tran Dai Quang and Prime...
Is PM Modi’s reference to Balochistan Threat to CPEC
By: Brig NK Bhatia, SM (Retd) | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 Aug , 2016
The reference to Balochistan, Gilgit-Baltistan and Pakistan Occupied Kashmir by Indian Prime Minister in his address to the nation from ramparts of Red Fort on 15 August seems to have had the...
When Cornered China’s Diplomacy Borders on being Boorish
By: Lt Gen (Dr) JS Bajwa | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Aug , 2016
“Should the Indian Government fail to change this decision at once, to have the Indian armed forces promptly withdraw from Chinese territory which they have seized unlawfully, responsibility...
Potent Indigenous War Unfolding in Jammu & Kashmir
By: Brig Narender Kumar (Retd.) | Issue: Vol. 31.3 Jul-Sep 2016 | Date: 26 Aug , 2016
The real problem is not the terrorists or separatists, but the fragmented approach of the government. All stakeholders should ideally work in an integrated manner and not independent of each...
Coup in Turkey Now in a Coop
By: Lt Gen (Dr) JS Bajwa | Issue: Vol. 31.3 Jul-Sep 2016 | Date: 25 Aug , 2016
The coup in Turkey ultimately ended in a coop. Turkey suffered a weekend of tanks, protests and uncertainty, as a military faction launched a coup to topple the Erdogan government. It was a...
Increasing Military Aid to Afghanistan
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Aug , 2016
In an article titled ‘A Proxy War Between India and Pakistan Is Underway In Afghanistan’ in Forbes, Charles Tiefler writes that the US command in Afghanistan has asked India to step up...
Myanmar and India: A New Future
By: Maj Gen Nitin P Gadkari | Issue: Vol. 31.2 Apr-Jun 2016 | Date: 23 Aug , 2016
The Chinese have aggressively involved themselves in Myanmar yet they are unsure of their future relationship and their investments due to the oncoming democratically elected government. Chinese...
Why and How India Must Support Balochistan
By: Brig Anil Gupta | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Aug , 2016
By invoking Balochistan, POJK and Gilgit-Baltistan from the ramparts of historic Red Fort during his Independence Day speech, PM Modi has signalled a titanic shift in India’s foreign policy. ...
China Wants India’s Help on SCS – Who Are We Kidding?
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Aug , 2016
As a precursor to the three day visit by China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi to India commencing August 12, our media reports that Chins seeks India’s “help” on the SCS. Nothing could be...
India’s Home Minister in Pakistan: Take Action Against Terrorists and...
By: Danvir Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Aug , 2016
Ever since the formation of SAARC in 1985, Indo-Pak relations have always overshadowed various other important regional issues. Pakistan’s obsession of Kashmir and its aggressive stance on that...
China-India-Myanmar: The Forgotten Frontier
By: Air Cmdr PC Chopra | Issue: Vol. 31.2 Apr-Jun 2016 | Date: 02 Aug , 2016
The large porous and underdeveloped border could also be turned into a border of peace and progress. The pro-democracy movement and Myanmar’s integration with Western economies, would give a...
Shia Massacre in Afghanistan – Reason not Always Simple
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 Jul , 2016
On July 23, two suicide bombings ripped through a protest march by Hazaras in Kabul’s Dehmazang Square killing 80 and wounding 260. The Hazaras were protesting rerouting of the Asian...
With Venomous Terrorist Threat in its Backyard: Can China Remain Cocooned...
By: Adarsh Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 Jul , 2016
Threat from terrorism is a global affliction today. This threat is originating not only from the misguided youth of one particular religious denomination who have no idea of the teachings of...
Which Sharif runs Pakistan
By: Sumit Walia | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 Jul , 2016
Except for few years of its history of 68 years, there are only two ways Pakistan Army (and not Pakistan Air Force or Pakistan Navy but just Pakistan Army) ruled the country. One when Pak Chief...
Moulding Perceptions to Incite Violence
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Jul , 2016
Information operations are complex requiring detailed planning and execution. In the overall context, information operations must include psychological operations, computer network operations,...
“Attacks in Europe”: Tet offensive? Or Kamikaze? Or worse?
By: Anant Mishra | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Jul , 2016
With ISIS taking the backdoor, their exit strategy included attacks on Paris, Brussels, Baghdad, Orlando, Istanbul and now Nice, France. Their actions have bewildered numerous security experts,...