Geopolitics

Crouching Dragon, Stubborn Samurai: A Dual for South China Sea

Crouching Dragon, Stubborn Samurai: A Dual for South China Sea

By: Anant Mishra | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Apr , 2015

For hundreds of years, if not thousand, Japan has played a vital role in geopolitics. Located just off the coast of mainland East Asia, Japan has been subtly affected by their neighbors and their...

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Demchok and the New Silk Road: China’s double standard

Demchok and the New Silk Road: China’s double standard

By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Courtesy: http://claudearpi.blogspot.in/ | Date: 04 Apr , 2015

On May 23, Scoop Newsreported that the Chief Executive Councilor of the Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council (LAHDC), Rigzin Spalbar wrote to J&K Chief Minister Mufti Mohd Sayeed...

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Game of Nukes

Game of Nukes

By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Apr , 2015

The Stimpson Centre recently released an essay titled ‘Pakistan’s Tactical Nuclear Weapons: Operational Myths and Realities’ by Dr Jeffrey D McCausland in which the author highlights...

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Evolution of China’s Military Strategy

Evolution of China’s Military Strategy

By: Lt Gen (Dr) JS Bajwa | Issue: Book Excerpt: Modernization of Chinese PLA | Date: 31 Mar , 2015

Some of the major events of the recent past, that have influenced Chinese strategists in seeking a contemporary military strategy have been the Tiananmen incident of 1989; the weakening and then the...

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Iran’s Dilemma

Iran’s Dilemma

By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 Mar , 2015

The recent temporary impasse in negotiations with Iran by the six world powers in Switzerland has been in global focus. While the negotiations are to be resumed shortly, the US has accused Israel...

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“Putin’s Soviet Ambitions”: The Return of the Cold War

“Putin’s Soviet Ambitions”: The Return of the Cold War

By: Anant Mishra | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 Mar , 2015

Ukraine is situated in the Eastern part of Europe bordering Belarus, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia and Slovakia. It is home to almost 44.3 million citizens (it grows to 45.4 million...

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How India Fools Itself

How India Fools Itself

By: Dr Amarjit Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Mar , 2015

It was amazing how much President Obama figured in the headlines of daily newspapers in India for virtually 2-3 days. India was over the top because Obama was watching India’s most beloved...

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India’s Geopolitical Pirouette

India’s Geopolitical Pirouette

By: Lt Gen (Dr) JS Bajwa | Issue: Vol. 30.1 Jan-Mar 2015 | Date: 23 Mar , 2015

There is no doubt that India will have to change; literally pull itself up by its boot laces. A changed India would imply transformation in the way things function in this country. It will imply...

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Is America subcontracting Afghanistan to Pakistan?

Is America subcontracting Afghanistan to Pakistan?

By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 22 Mar , 2015

Henry Kissinger writes in his book ‘World Order’, “A further radicalization of the Arab world or heightened conflict in Pakistan could expose India to significant internal pressures.”...

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US drawdown from Afghanistan and Its Implications

US drawdown from Afghanistan and Its Implications

By: VBN Ram | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 20 Mar , 2015

Former Pakistan president General Pervez Musharraf made a far-fetched and sweeping generalisation when he stated, ‘The worst blunder for the US would be to quit Afghanistan without winning, in...

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Forked Tongues across the Border

Forked Tongues across the Border

By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Mar , 2015

If one were to talk of forked tongues, one prominent example would be Musharraf. Heading Pakistan, the man had no compunctions telling the world media there is not one single terrorist on...

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Roads to the Border …and tourism

Roads to the Border …and tourism

By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Courtesy: http://claudearpi.blogspot.in/ | Date: 13 Mar , 2015

While we regularly come across articles about the Border Road Organization (under the Ministry of Defence) struggling to build roads in Arunachal Pradesh and Ladakh, China is going faster and...

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Quest for Oceanic Dominance: Militarization in the Indian Ocean

Quest for Oceanic Dominance: Militarization in the Indian Ocean

By: Anant Mishra | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Mar , 2015

Oxford dictionary describes Militarization as “preparation for an immediate combat situation or a violent conflict by nations or arms groups”. It can be of many forms, from raising armed...

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India and the Maldives: Not Just Another Day in Paradise

India and the Maldives: Not Just Another Day in Paradise

By: Brig Deepak Sinha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Mar , 2015

On the night of 3rd November 1988, paratroopers from the elite 50th Independent Parachute Brigade, India’s only true-blue rapid deployment force, launched Operation Cactus in response to pleas...

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Threats to India in the coming years

Threats to India in the coming years

By: Maj Gen Afsir Karim | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 07 Mar , 2015

Disturbed internal conditions in most countries of South Asia can be attributed mainly to unabated terrorist activities and organised crime. India has been facing sporadic communal, ethnic and...

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India’s Foreign Policy Dilemma

India’s Foreign Policy Dilemma

By: Lt Gen (Dr) JS Bajwa | Issue: Vol. 29.4 Oct-Dec 2014 | Date: 06 Mar , 2015

India is today at a point of inflection. A cautious myopic vision will spell doom. The MEA needs to be confident enough to take onboard all instruments available in the country to consolidate...

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China’s Air and Space Strategy

China’s Air and Space Strategy

By: Air Commodore Ramesh Phadke | Issue: Book Excerpt: Rise of China | Date: 05 Mar , 2015

“As for the revolution in soldiery, the competition between the military forces is moving to outer space here.... This is historically inevitable, and this development cannot be reversed. The...

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Sowing the Dragon’s Teeth: Role of United States in the Islamic World

Sowing the Dragon’s Teeth: Role of United States in the Islamic World

By: Atul Razdan | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Mar , 2015

The activities of the Islamic State for Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) or the Islamic State (IS), which is its most recent avatar, have brought into sharp focus the schisms in the Islamic world. The...

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Possibility of Military Coup in Bangladesh?

Possibility of Military Coup in Bangladesh?

By: B.Z. Khasru | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Feb , 2015

Despite ongoing rumblings in certain Western circles — and a faint echo inside Bangladesh — of possible military intervention to end the country's current political unrest, the armed forces...

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Attaining Strategic India 2020: Lessons From Niccolo Machiavelli

Attaining Strategic India 2020: Lessons From Niccolo Machiavelli

By: Col JK Achuthan (Retd.) | Issue: Vol. 29.4 Oct-Dec 2014 | Date: 27 Feb , 2015

Great individuals associated with the Renaissance such as Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Dante Aligheri and Galileo were Florentine citizens. The forces of debate, democracy, organised guilds,...

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