Geopolitics

The Chinese Twin Silk Roads – Can India shake off its lethargy?

The Chinese Twin Silk Roads – Can India shake off its lethargy?

By: Navneet Bhushan | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Nov , 2014

If you have to see the future, look at the map of the future. Or better why not draw the map yourself. If you are the most populous, recently turned the largest economy and the emerging new type...

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Helicopters in Military Aviation in China

Helicopters in Military Aviation in China

By: Gp Capt AK Sachdev | Issue: Vol. 29.3 Jul-Sep 2014 | Date: 07 Nov , 2014

China has the world’s second largest defence budget next only to the US and with the future looking upbeat for China’s economy and for its military spending, defence manufacturers and...

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Dark Shadow of Wahhabi Groups Across Asia

Dark Shadow of Wahhabi Groups Across Asia

By: Maj Gen Afsir Karim | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 06 Nov , 2014

Ayman al Zawahiri’s declaration that al-Qaeda was opening an office in the Indian subcontinent poses a significant threat to India and other countries of the region. India needs to reassess the...

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Not Easy to Understand Chinese Mind Set

Not Easy to Understand Chinese Mind Set

By: Air Marshal RS Bedi | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Nov , 2014

China’s reaction to India’s plan to construct a strategic road from Vijay Nagar to Twang in Arunachal Pradesh was rather offensive. Ignoring all diplomatic niceties, it threatened India of...

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Mechanism against terror still missing

Mechanism against terror still missing

By: Jagdish N Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Nov , 2014

Terrorism is a crime against humanity. It threatens most the lives and rights of ordinary citizens, whom every modern state must serve best to justify its legitimacy. Given this, Prime Minister...

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Chinese objection to Indian road projects unacceptable

Chinese objection to Indian road projects unacceptable

By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Courtesy: http://claudearpi.blogspot.in/ | Date: 01 Nov , 2014

Some 10 days ago, I wrote a piece "Chinese objection to Indian road projects unacceptable" for NitiCentral (see below). My conclusion was that "There is absolutely nothing wrong in the proposed...

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Stable Pakistan not in India’s interest

Stable Pakistan not in India’s interest

By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Vol 23.3 Jul-Sep 2008 | Date: 31 Oct , 2014

Indians pose the biggest threat to the union of India. The reason is simple. An average Indian does not constitute a nation but is merely an individual. His personal well-being overrides all...

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Needed, a new military doctrine to deter Pakistan permanently

Needed, a new military doctrine to deter Pakistan permanently

By: Maj Gen Afsir Karim | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 Oct , 2014

Before the ceasefire agreement was signed in 2003 between India and Pakistan, ceasefire violations were a regular feature all along the Line of Control. During these engagements, heavy artillery...

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Mating Frankensteins

Mating Frankensteins

By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 Oct , 2014

This is not about Musharraf who wasted his life trying to mate radical organizations in the vain hope of getting eulogized as Zia-ul-Haq II, killing more Pakistanis than Indians in the process...

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The case of the ‘All Weather Friends’

The case of the ‘All Weather Friends’

By: Lt Gen (Dr) JS Bajwa | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Oct , 2014

The Director General of the Inter Services Public Relations of the Pakistani military establishment, Major General Asim Saleem Bajwa, visited China from 14-18 October 2014. A statement made by...

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Road Parallel to the LAC in Arunachal Pradesh

Road Parallel to the LAC in Arunachal Pradesh

By: Lt Gen (Dr) JS Bajwa | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Oct , 2014

The announcement by the Government to construct an 1800 km long road running parallel to the LAC in Arunachal Pradesh (AP) is a purposive step but specious at best and is likely to remain a...

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Geopolitics of falling Oil Prices

Geopolitics of falling Oil Prices

By: Akhil Handa | Issue: Courtesy: www.theindianrepublic.com | Date: 17 Oct , 2014

Reputations are made and destroyed in the oil industry for those hazarding educated estimates of where the oil price is headed. Remember the prediction that oil price is headed to $200 per...

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Gaza and the Israeli Intervention

Gaza and the Israeli Intervention

By: Brig Deepak Sinha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Oct , 2014

In recent days we have been witness to live television coverage that made us all unwilling, but nonetheless, active participants in what could only be called mass murder of innocents in that...

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Al Qaeda’s India Threat

Al Qaeda’s India Threat

By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 15 Oct , 2014

Immediately post Ayman al-Zawahiri announcing establishment of an India Wing of Al Qaeda, prompt came a US media report quoting US counter-terrorism expert Bergen that there is no evidence of Al...

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Pakistan was designed for proxy war

Pakistan was designed for proxy war

By: RSN Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Oct , 2014

...Jawaharlal Nehru had referred to a pamphlet written by the former Chief of General Staff of Pakistani Army in his address to the Cabinet’s Defence Committee meeting on the issue of the...

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Ceasefire Violations: Cut the Melodrama Please

Ceasefire Violations: Cut the Melodrama Please

By: Dr Simrit Kahlon | Issue: Courtesy: www.defenceinfo.com | Date: 13 Oct , 2014

Within a day of the much touted lull in ceasefire violations, Pakistan has stuck again; this has put paid to the hype created by the Indian media about the Pakistan army retracting, tail between...

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Making up Asymmetric Deficit vis-à-vis China

Making up Asymmetric Deficit vis-à-vis China

By: Special Correspondent | Issue: Vol. 29.3 Jul-Sep 2014 | Date: 13 Oct , 2014

China’s surging economic power has been matched by increasing military might including investments in an aircraft carrier, anti-ship ballistic missiles, satellites, modern weapon systems and...

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Ceasefire Violations: Has the time come to call the Pakistan’s bluff

Ceasefire Violations: Has the time come to call the Pakistan’s bluff

By: Danvir Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Oct , 2014

  Heavy firing by Pakistani troops from across the International Border in RS Pura sector in Jammu region began on the night of Oct 5th. Since then it has been "continuing intermittently" as I...

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Tibet: why is China so nervous?

Tibet: why is China so nervous?

By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Courtesy: http://claudearpi.blogspot.in/ | Date: 09 Oct , 2014

China is slowly but surely tightening its grip on Tibet. The latest sign is the 'upgradation' of the status of the Tibet Armed Police's Political Commissar. The Global Times yesterday announced...

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But for China!

But for China!

By: RSN Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Oct , 2014

The decade of 50s was characterized by romanticisation of communism in India. Such was the romance that many leaders of the post-Independence dispensation, most of who claimed to have made huge...

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