Geopolitics
Syria: The End of GWOT or a case for Renewed Crusade?
By: Brig Amar Cheema | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Oct , 2015
If history was to define a moment when the modern world changed before our eyes, it would be that fateful day when ‘Islamic Jihadis’(sic),in true kamikaze style, rammed commercial airliners...
The sorry state of India’s Borders
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Courtesy: http://claudearpi.blogspot.in/ | Date: 24 Oct , 2015
Sometimes, though it is rare, one reads some good news in the national press. One of these refreshing items, for me at least, was the visit of the Minister of State for Home Affairs, Kiren...
Nuclear Pakistan – Incessant Tail Wagging
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Oct , 2015
As Nawaz Sharif began preparations to travel to Washington to meet Obama, it was certain that Pakistan will start wagging her nuclear tail furiously, much to the delight of indigenous Pakistan...
Obama and Pakistan – frozen in time
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 Oct , 2015
As Nawaz Sharif heads to Washington with his ISI approved new NSA, Naseer Khan Janjua, the outcome is already known. Obama has already given his preamble that Pakistan is an important player in...
Countering the Pakistani ‘K’ propaganda
By: Danvir Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Oct , 2015
As an annual ritual just like in the past, this year too, during the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) meet, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Mr Nawaz Sharif raised the Kashmir issue. Be it any...
Syria in the Crosswire of Great Power Rivalry
By: Brig Amar Cheema | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Oct , 2015
The relationship between war and plunder is axiomatic; behind sermons of national interests and morality lie material gains. Such has been the story of mankind and such is the conundrum ‘in’...
Beyond Kunduz – hybrid war rages on
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 Oct , 2015
Kunduz is the news having been invested by the Pakistan supported Afghan Taliban and the fighting rages on as can be expected in built up areas. The US accidentally bombed a hospital run by...
China’s Game of Territorial Claims
By: Lt Gen Gautam Banerjee | Issue: Vol. 30.3 Jul-Sep 2015 | Date: 12 Oct , 2015
There is no hope of a resolution of the India-PRC border dispute unless it is grossly in favour of China. It would, therefore, be wise for India to learn to live with the problem – as indeed...
China’s Military Cut: Xi’s Attempts at Control
By: Divya Kumar Soti | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Monitor | Date: 09 Oct , 2015
During the September 3 celebrations marking China’s victory over Japan in the Second World War, President Xi Jinping announced a big military cut scheduled to be completed by 2017. The proposed...
Rise of the PLAAF: Implications for India
By: Gp Capt AK Sachdev | Issue: Vol. 28.4 Oct-Dec 2013 | Date: 06 Oct , 2015
The ‘inscrutable’ sobriquet for the Chinese is not so much because of their unsmiling faces but on account of their unpredictable actions. Military action against India may not come in the...
Karakoram Highway: A security challenge for India
By: Brig Anil Gupta | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Monitor | Date: 02 Oct , 2015
Karakoram Highway (KKH) connects Abbottabad in Punjab (Pakistan) to Kashgar, Xinjiang region of China across the Karakoram ranges. India has five mountain ranges which guard its northern...
Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir: The Future Trajectory
By: Dr Priyanka Singh | Issue: Book Excerpt: Asia 2030 - The Unfolding Future | Date: 30 Sep , 2015
Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (POK) historically belonged to the erstwhile princely state of Jammu and Kashmir. Soon after the partition of India in 1947, Maharaja Hari Singh of Jammu and Kashmir...
Why journalists get killed in Pakistan?
By: Farooq Ganderbali | Issue: Courtesy: www.dailyexcelsior.com | Date: 28 Sep , 2015
By no account can Pakistan be called a conflict-ridden country like Iraq and Syria but it is as dangerous a place for journalists. Two journalists were killed in the last few weeks. Last year,...
Evolving Dynamics of Indo-US Relations
By: Kanwal Sibal | Issue: Vol. 30.1 Jan-Mar 2015 | Date: 24 Sep , 2015
The pro-US lobby in India prefers to see in Prime Minister Modi’s move to invite President Obama an inclination to strategically lean towards the US, shed “strategic autonomy” and end the...
India China LAC face-Off – Analysis
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Courtesy: www.niticentral.com | Date: 23 Sep , 2015
After a swift victory, Julius Caesar is said to have bragged in the Roman Senate: “Vini, Vidi, Vici” (I came, I saw, I conquered). These historic words need to be adapted for the recent...
Raheel Sharif: The New Dictator of Pakistan
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Sep , 2015
The latest attack at an Air Base near Peshawar in which more than 30 air force and army personnel have been killed has not dented the honeymoon of the general public with the Army Chief Gen...
Chinese troops intrude in Ladakh: a coincidence?
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Courtesy: http://claudearpi.blogspot.in/ | Date: 16 Sep , 2015
Was it a coincidence? Just the day before the new stand-off between the Indian and Chinese defence forces in Ladakh started, a senior member of the Chinese Central Military Commission visited the...
Inside Pakistan
By: Jai Kumar Verma | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 12 Sep , 2015
The founder of Pakistan, Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, was a Shia and about 30–35 million people in Pakistan are Shias, but as fundamentalism has grown, a few extremist Sunni...
Celebrating The Past: China’s Military Parade 2015
By: Dr Rajasimman Sundaram | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Sep , 2015
By order of missing out on the finer details of the military parade held in Beijing to commemorate the 70th anniversary of Chinese military victory over occupying Japanese forces in 1945, an...
A mighty ‘peaceful’ China and the Indian border
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Courtesy: http://claudearpi.blogspot.in/ | Date: 08 Sep , 2015
Soon after the mega Parade was over, the blue sky disappeared again over the Tiananmen Square; pollution returned to the Chinese capital, so did President Xi Jinping’s headaches. Xi will have to...