Geopolitics
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...
Turbulent Asia-Pacific – lurking yin water snake
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Jan , 2016
Answering a question on Taiwan by a visiting Indian delegation from the National Defence College in year 2000, a Chinese military official said that merging Taiwan with China was their top...
BRICS: A Strategic Self Appraisal
By: Dr Rajasimman Sundaram | Issue: Vol. 30.4 Oct-Dec 2015 | Date: 19 Jan , 2016
BRICS was carved out of a group formally initiated by Russia in 2002 – Russia-India-China (RIC) to address the challenges it faced after the break-up of Soviet Union.1 China and India’s...
Can Beijing really rein in North Korea?
By: VBN Ram | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Jan , 2016
The political insanity of the dynastic leadership of the People’s Democratic Republic of Korea (North Korea), should normally have been a source of considerable embarrassment to Beijing, but...
Refurbishing Security – something cooking ?
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Jan , 2016
There has been much commotion in the media about the terrorist strike on the Pathankot IAF base; infiltration astride the IB by the terrorists, their getting into the base, the action, casualties,...
Face to face with Frankenstein
By: KN Pandita | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 Jan , 2016
No surprise that Pakistani terrorist attack on Pathankot air base is getting internationalized; not at India’s asking. Pakistan’s mortification is almost unprecedented. For the third time, the...
A League in Denial – Will Any Strategy Work with Pak?
By: Lt Gen (Dr) JS Bajwa | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Jan , 2016
The three witches – “Macbeth”. PAK ARMY (FIRST WITCH) - When shall we three meet again? In thunder, lightning, or in rain? ISI (SECOND WITCH) - When the hurly-burly's done, When the...
North Korea’s Hydrogen Bomb is a challenge to Universal Disarmament
By: VBN Ram | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Jan , 2016
Blackmail Diplomacy in the wake of Strategic Patience: Pyongyang practices blackmail diplomacy in relation to not merely the US, but what the former regards as its confidant and close buddy...
Chi-Pak’s GB Googly – deft move by Xi
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Jan , 2016
When Americans coined “Af-Pak”, both territories being overseen by US CENTCOM, perhaps there was also the déjà vu of the boundaries changing between the two unofficially or officially....
Worsening Fault lines Militant Groups attacking the Pakistani Armed Forces?
By: Dr Sanjay Badri-Maharaj | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Jan , 2016
On Friday 18th September 2015, militants attacked a Pakistan Air Force base in Peshawar. In the ensuing battle, 13 militants were killed along with the 29 victims of the attack, many of whom were...
“Paranoia and Pyongyang”: Discussing the need for Repatriation of North...
By: Anant Mishra | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 Dec , 2015
Since the division of Korean peninsula, North and South Korea have been developing in different directions. To begin with, North Korea moved forward with its Chollima Movement, which coincided...
Breaking India-Pakistan logjam
By: KN Pandita | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 Dec , 2015
On his flight back home from Kabul, Prime Minister Modi broke journey at Lahore. This unusual drop off has become a subject for speculation. Congress spokesman says Indian nation will have to pay...
The Great Wall(s) of China
By: Dr Amarjit Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Dec , 2015
Over the past 65 years, China has erected psychological walls with all its neighbors. First, China shut itself from the world while it carried out internal purges. Today, China has walls of...
Flight from Kabul to Delhi Stops at Lahore: Modi’s Diplomatic Master Stroke
By: Danvir Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 Dec , 2015
The Indian Prime Minister, Mr Narendra Modi on Dec 25, 2015 surprised all by a simple tweet. He said he was going to stop over at Lahore, to wish his Pakistani counterpart, Mr Nawaz Sharif a...
Fresh Insights on the US Global War on Terror
By: Brig Deepak Sinha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Dec , 2015
One of the enduring mysteries of US Foreign Policy was the shift of focus of the George W Bush Administration from destroying Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan to acting against the Saddam regime in Iraq,...
India’s Karakoram Conundrum: A legacy of the ‘Great Game’
By: Prateek Joshi | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Dec , 2015
The Karakoram Range lies on the northern most borders of Pakistan and India, further extending into western border of China. The range houses a huge concentration of peaks over 8000 metres in...
Petro-Jihadism: The Conspiracy within the Imperishable War in the Arab World
By: Maj Lal Ananth | Issue: Vol. 30.4 Oct-Dec 2015 | Date: 22 Dec , 2015
The solution to counter petro-Jihadism1 has to be multi vectored. It has to be a sagacious blend of military action, economic policies, social rehabilitation and reconciliation and, technological...
The Middle East: An Assessment
By: Air Marshal Dhiraj Kukreja | Issue: Vol. 30.3 Jul-Sep 2015 | Date: 21 Dec , 2015
Secularism in the Muslim world appears to be in terminal retreat. The two levels of struggle within that world are, first, Sunni versus Shiite, and second, complex, and interacting factions. The...
Nepal – in wake of crimson tide
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Dec , 2015
As per reports, the motorcade of Nepal President Bidhya Devi Bhandari was attacked in Janakpur by Madhesis who also threw a petrol bomb at a temple she visited. The activists of Madhesi Morcha...
India-Pakistan Relations in the Current Environment: The Way Ahead
By: Jai Kumar Verma | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 15 Dec , 2015
The world is concerned as relations between two nuclear powers, i.e., India and Pakistan, are deteriorating. Pakistan, which has launched a low-intensity war against India, constantly infiltrates...