Geopolitics
India’s Limited Options Against Pakistan
By: Air Marshal RS Bedi | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Mar , 2016
To comprehend the magnitude of what Pakistan has been up to during all these years since independence, one has to only glance through its dastardly acts against the Indian state and its people....
Deconstruction Islamic Extremism Over The Last Two Decades
By: Abhinav Pandya | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 Mar , 2016
Few days back, on a chilly Manhattan evening at Bukhara restaurant on 49th street, over kababs and Chardonnay, my friend who works for Counter-Terrorism with UN informed me that whole day he was...
Beyond the QCG – Talking to Taliban
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 Mar , 2016
The fourth meeting of the Quadrilateral Coordination Group (QCG) of Afghanistan, Pakistan, the US and China on the Afghan Peace and Reconciliation process held in Kabul on February 23, 2016 ended...
South and Southeast Asia : A Peep into The Future
By: Air Marshal Dhiraj Kukreja | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 Feb , 2016
Predicting the future in a confusing security environment is a challenge; with all the present fusions and fissions, it becomes even more challenging. The consistencies and inconsistencies,...
Anatomy of US Plan to Sell F-16s to Pakistan
By: Radhakrishna Rao | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Feb , 2016
The short sighted US foreign policy initiative and flawed diplomatic strategy have proved to be instrumental in creating Frankenstein. Beginning from the covert intervention in Afghanistan in...
North Korean Rocket Test Sparks International Revulsion
By: Radhakrishna Rao | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Feb , 2016
North Korea, described as a “rouge state” and “reclusive kingdom”, has done it once again. Defying the UN sanction and sparking widespread global revulsion, North Korea claimed that on...
India-Taiwan Relations: A Comprehensive Security Perspective
By: Tien-Sze Fang | Issue: Vol. 30.4 Oct-Dec 2015 | Date: 19 Feb , 2016
Greater cooperation between India and Taiwan could prove critical in helping New Delhi and Taipei achieve their economic goals at home and their strategic aims in the region. It is time to...
China takes Pakistan: A Scenario by 2017-2022
By: Navneet Bhushan | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Feb , 2016
Since year 2011, I have been painting a scenario where in China will get deeper and deeper into Pakistan. For many decades China has been the "thick" friend of Pakistan - especially military and...
Spectre of China’s Artificial Islands
By: Prof Swaran Singh & Dr Lilian Yamamoto | Issue: Vol. 30.3 Jul-Sep 2015 | Date: 14 Feb , 2016
Although the UNCLOS is far from being adhered to even after ratification of the states involved in the South China Sea dispute, it is a case where international law alone might provide a...
Expansionist Designs of ISIS
By: Maj Gen Afsir Karim | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 09 Feb , 2016
ISIS has clearly declared its intentions of formal expansion into the notional region of ‘Khorasan’ that includes Afghanistan-Pakistan and large parts of India, including Kashmir. ISIS has...
Balochistan – a Boiling Cauldron
By: Radhakrishna Rao | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Feb , 2016
Baloch separatists who are rightly disturbed over the widespread human rights abuse in the province ask why the Federal Government in Islamabad which supports the demand for self determination of...
“Reviewing the Activities UNRWA”: Palestine Refugees and the Conquest...
By: Anant Mishra | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Feb , 2016
"As a major recipient of U.S. tax dollars, UNRWA must take more robust measures to ensure its facilities are not being used to facilitate terrorism,” - US Representative Doug Collins ...
Islamic State in India
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Courtesy: Geopolitics | Date: 06 Feb , 2016
On the eve of the visit of French President François Hollande to India as Chief Guest of the 67th Republic Day, there has been a massive flow of intelligence from Western sources regarding the...
“Containing Nuclear Proliferation”: Understanding US – Iran deal
By: Anant Mishra | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Feb , 2016
We define nuclear proliferation as the “spread of nuclear weapons, fissionable material, and weapons-applicable nuclear technology and information”. Right from the World War II, especially in...
China aims to Bolster Strategic Supremacy through Space
By: Radhakrishna Rao | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 Feb , 2016
For well over two decades now, China’s pragmatic political leadership, as part of the long term vision of positioning this most populous nation on the earth, as the global military supremo, has...
India’s Satellite Monitoring Facility in Vietnam Upsets China
By: Radhakrishna Rao | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 Jan , 2016
As part of its space diplomacy and “Look East” policy, Indian political leadership may not be averse to the idea of making available services of India’s home grown satellite information...
Stranded Refugees, Bewildered Diplomacy: Humanitarian Mayhem in Europe
By: Anant Mishra | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 Jan , 2016
The refugee crisis is creating mayhem in Europe, with thousands of civilians seeking asylum, diplomacy is seen at its worst form. The term “Refugee” became widely popular after April 2015...
Why India is not learning from Israel?
By: VBN Ram | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Jan , 2016
Besides desirous illegal immigrants there are others wishing to infiltrate into the United States from Mexico to unsettle the US authorities, so as to ensure a continual exodus of immigrants to...
Pakistan Second Peshawar Jehadi Attack Result of Good and Bad Taliban Mindset
By: Brig Arun Bajpai | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Jan , 2016
On 20 January 2016 Bacha Khan University located in Charsadda in Peshawar district of the North West Pakistan province known as Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa was attacked by the jehadis of the Pakistani...
Iran’s Nuclear Accord and its Implications
By: VBN Ram | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Jan , 2016
Ironically , those very nations , which are now patting their backs (most notably the US; China and Russia) for making Iran sign the P5+1 –Iran nuclear accord- are the ones, responsible for...