Geopolitics
Lone Wolf Jehad a Dangerous Phenomena Propagated by ISIS
By: Brig Arun Bajpai | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Dec , 2015
Let there be no doubt that 28 years old Sayyed Irfan Farooq and his 27 year old wife Tashfin Mallick, former being the first generation Pakistani origin citizen of America and his wife a...
Propping up Proxies: India’s Inimical Neighbourhood
By: Lt Gen (Dr) JS Bajwa | Issue: Vol. 30.4 Oct-Dec 2015 | Date: 09 Dec , 2015
“The enemy of my enemy is my friend” seems to be the quintessential truth with regard to India’s neighbourhood, despite the well-meaning olive branch extended under the initiative of...
“Suspicion and Separatists”: Third World and the Separatist States
By: Anant Mishra | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Dec , 2015
Introduction Today Separatist state movements (SSMs) poses one of the greater threats to the democratic governments in the world. Separatism is a process where a group of one nation try to...
Security Cooperation – China’s Game of Shadows
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Dec , 2015
India and China have agreed for the first time to form a ministerial-level mechanism headed by respective Home Ministers to step up cooperation and coordination on a host of security-related...
Taiwan – Why Shy Full Relations?
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Vol. 30.4 Oct-Dec 2015 | Date: 04 Dec , 2015
If Taiwan is annexed by China, the PLA Navy would be able to extend its reach to the second island chain, right down to Guam, the Marianas and even some other smaller islands in the central...
China Threat in Russia
By: Lt Gen (Dr) JS Bajwa | Issue: Book Excerpt: Modernization of Chinese PLA | Date: 01 Dec , 2015
At the official level, Russia is actively working at developing cooperation with China in the economic and political arenas. At a meeting in the Kremlin with Russian diplomats in July 1995,...
Counter-Point: Has India no Strategic Culture!
By: Lt Gen Gautam Banerjee | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 Nov , 2015
“Don’t hit at all if it is honourably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft”. – Theodore Roosevelt Burden of Strategic Thinking India’s strategic community has always been cold...
Pakistan – euphoric with Big Two support
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Nov , 2015
According to specific inputs received by intelligence agencies, Pakistan's ISI recently held a meeting in a camp in POK with chief commanders of top terrorist outfits LeT, Hum and JeM asking...
Why the rise of ISIS: Evolution and future of Middle East
By: Dr Ashok Kapur | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 27 Nov , 2015
The Middle East is in turmoil. America had the economic and military resources and the confidence, as well as the ambition, to expand its presence and influence, and with this in mind, it...
Splintered ISIS will bedevil India
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Nov , 2015
Indian Intelligence agencies have revealed that at least 23 Indians have joined the ISIS and six of them have died. Even Mahatma Gandhi pandered to the idea of Caliphate when he supported the...
Russian Domination of the Syrian Battleground
By: Danvir Singh | Issue: Vol. 30.4 Oct-Dec 2015 | Date: 25 Nov , 2015
For the past so many years, the NATO had been making all decisions about war and peace unilaterally but now the situation appears to have changed. The most striking part of the Russian campaign...
Maldives – in eye of political storm
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Nov , 2015
The need for political reconciliation has been in news with respect to Afghanistan for long, but happenings past two years and recent short emergency imposed in Maldives indicates Maldives needs...
Impact of Biological Noise on Sonar Performance in the IOR
By: Vice Adm DSP Varma And Cdr (Dr) Arnab Das | Issue: Vol. 30.2 Apr-Jun 2015 | Date: 22 Nov , 2015
The deployment of nuclear powered submarines is a game changer. However, that comes with its own challenges. The deployment of the erstwhile INS Chakra way back in the year 1988, had experienced...
Constituents of Strategic Communications of the Islamic State?
By: V. Balasubramaniyan & V. Hariharan | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 20 Nov , 2015
The Islamic State has been making steady progress on various military fronts. Concomitant with this rise, there has been a drastic upsurge in the Islamic State’s propaganda abilities. The...
Myanmar – Will Peace Prevail
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 Nov , 2015
Myanmar’s main opposition party, the National League for Democracy (NLD) led by Aung San Suu Kyi has won a resounding victory, sweeping through Myanmar’s elections with 37 additional seats...
Nothing surprising about situation in Nepal
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Book Excerpt: The Unmaking of Nepal | Date: 08 Nov , 2015
The present state of Nepal is not a sudden development, but has been building up over the years. The tragedy was that Pakistan obsessed India was non-chalet and dismissive about Nepal. Most...
Nepal at Dangerous Cross Roads
By: Danvir Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 Nov , 2015
Nepal police on 2nd Nov opened fire killing a 19-year-old student from Darbhanga in Bihar. The police opened fire near the border to stop Madhesi protesters from reoccupying a bridge in the...
India favours early conclusion of Code of Conduct on South China Sea by...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 Nov , 2015
The Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar today expressed India’s hope that all parties to the disputes in the South China Sea region will abide by the 2002 Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in...
Qaedat al-Jihad in the Indian sub-continent, Islamic State and India
By: Shubhda Chaudhary | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Nov , 2015
The rise and decay of Islamic movements in South Asia have often been neglected in the organic understanding of history of Islam, especially dealing with the historical literature. The history of...
Beginning of End of the American Empire
By: Dr Rajasimman Sundaram | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 31 Oct , 2015
Having maintained an isolationist foreign policy prior to reluctantly accepting global leadership in the aftermath of World War II from United Kingdom, United States is now unable to react...