Geopolitics
Rise of Terrorism in Africa: An Era of Religious Militancy
By: Anant Mishra | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Jul , 2015
Terrorism is not a ‘rare occurrence’. The word ‘terrorism’ that we refer to today (which we are using regularly since September 11 attacks), refers to religiously motivated terrorism. As...
Af-Pak – Strategic Conflict Coalescing
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Jul , 2015
It is interesting to observe the myriad colours of geopolitical power play being enacted in the Af-Pak region. Closer home, in Pakistan, the anti-Shia sectarian violence has already claimed 170...
Nathu La to Kailash: Trip down the memory lane
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Courtesy: www.niticentral.com | Date: 30 Jun , 2015
Once upon a time, not far from Nathu-la, the pass situated at 4,310 metres above sea level between Sikkim and Tibet, India had a stunning Trade Agency in Yatung in Tibet. This came back to mind...
Can Air Power Defeat the ISIS?
By: Air Marshal Anil Chopra | Issue: Vol. 30.2 Apr-Jun 2015 | Date: 27 Jun , 2015
The USA decided to lead a coalition of countries to stem the Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi-led ISIS expansion. The ISIS has around 70,000 fighters including 8,000 in Libya and 10,000 in Nigeria. It is...
Why India is alone in the war against terrorism and Pakistan
By: Col R Hariharan | Issue: Courtesy: www.col.hariharan.info/ | Date: 25 Jun , 2015
There are three disturbing trends brought out in the latest Country Reports on Terrorism 2014 released by the US State Department on June 19, 2015 that affect India’s national interest. The...
Attack on Afghan Parliament: Wake Up Call For India
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Jun , 2015
The Afghan Parliament was attacked on 23 June. The Taliban claimed responsibility. Queer, considering that Taliban, has been engaged in talks in overt and secret talks with the new Afghan...
Historically India’s Soft Power Comes a Cropper to Chinese Irredentist...
By: Lt Gen (Dr) JS Bajwa | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Jun , 2015
Chinese Irredentism Like a debutante in the global arena, China has been particular about its national image. After decades of revolutionary diplomacy that challenged the international system,...
Myanmar Operation: Why Pakistan is so rattled
By: Divya Kumar Soti | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Monitor | Date: 20 Jun , 2015
Ever since India launched a targeted Special Forces action against two militant camps in Myanmar and announced it, the whole of Pakistani political as well as military establishment is repeating...
India’s Yemeni Evacuation
By: Dr Vijay Sakhuja | Issue: Vol. 30.2 Apr-Jun 2015 | Date: 19 Jun , 2015
The United States military strategy published in 2012 has referred to India as an important player in the Indian Ocean and notes, “The United States is also investing in a long-term strategic...
China floats dangerously over troubled waters of South China Sea
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Courtesy: www.niticentral.com | Date: 09 Jun , 2015
Some watchers have predicted a ‘crack’, others a ‘collapse’, all might be wrong, but the fact remains that the Middle Kingdom has entered troubled waters, not only in the South China Sea....
Af-Pak Region – murky waters
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Jun , 2015
The dynamics of the Af-Pak region are changing rapidly. And this is not just because of the farcical election in Gilgit and Baltistan slated for June 8, while a Federal Minister of Pakistan dons...
Geopolitics of China’s Belt and Road Policy
By: Jayanna Krupakar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Jun , 2015
On March 28, China released an ambitious “One Belt, One Road” initiative to promote greater regional economic cooperation by establishing new transcontinental trade corridors across Asia,...
Nepal Maoists ride on hate India campaign amidst disaster
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 Jun , 2015
About 27 districts east and west of Kathmandu have been hit by the earthquake. More than 10,000 people have lost their lives. It will take an estimated $10 billion to rebuild Nepal. This...
How the Chinese fooled Nehru in Tibet
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Courtesy: http://claudearpi.blogspot.in/ | Date: 02 Jun , 2015
While the Indian archives are still jealously kept by the Ministry of External Affairs (and other Indian ministries), the Chinese are slowly (and selectively) declassifying their archives. A...
China – what lies behind the mask?
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Jun , 2015
According to a post on the Facebook, while Prime Minister Modi was visiting China, an Op-Ed in China’s Global Times stated, "Due to the Indian elite's confidence in their democracy, and the...
Scrap Article 370 immediately
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 May , 2015
On 23-May-2015, some ten Pakistani women met the General Secretary of ruling Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP), Nizamuddin Bhat. These women, as claimed by them entered into matrimonial...
Deflection Won’t Work
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 May , 2015
When the Pakistani Corps Commanders conveyed through an ISPR statement that R&AW was whipping up terrorism in Pakistan, the Pakistani media made an interesting observation; that it was unusual...
Sino-Indian Relations: An Approach for 21st Century Developments
By: Lt Col Avinash Chandra | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 May , 2015
The present century belongs to two powers of Asia viz China and India. China because of being world’s largest and strongest economy and a budding military power to be, and India because of a...
Meeting the long-term Chinese Challenge
By: Brig. Gurmeet Kanwal | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 May , 2015
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent trip to China was eminently successful – no matter by which yardstick success is measured. It resulted in agreements to facilitate US$ 10 billion Chinese...
Growth of Fundamentalism in Pakistan and Its Repercussions
By: Jai Kumar Verma | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 20 May , 2015
The Islamic Republic of Pakistan was created in the name of Islam, but Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the father of the nation, wanted a secular Muslim state and not a theocratic Islamic state controlled...