Geopolitics

Its time for India to be Pro-active

Its time for India to be Pro-active

By: Air Marshal RS Bedi | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 Sep , 2013

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s expected visit to Beijing for summit level talks with Chinese President Xi jinping on October 28, despite tension over frequent incursions by the Chinese troops...

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The Advancing Borders of the Chinese Empire

The Advancing Borders of the Chinese Empire

By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Vol. 28.3 Jul-Sep 2013 | Date: 17 Sep , 2013

The incidents in the Depsang Plain, near the Karakoram Pass in April or more recently, in Chumar in South Ladakh, are the continuance of Nehru’s blind spot for China. There is today a huge...

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The India – China Border Conundrum

The India – China Border Conundrum

By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Vol. 28.3 Jul-Sep 2013 | Date: 12 Sep , 2013

China is becoming increasingly aggressive across the Himalayas for multiple reasons. She takes pride in her ‘Middle Kingdom’ legacy but this mentality is laced with guilt from decades of...

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US subcontracting Afghanistan to Pakistan?

US subcontracting Afghanistan to Pakistan?

By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Date: 08 Sep , 2013

In early 1970s, a Captain from the Afghan Army attending Junior Command Course in MHOW had this to say about Pakistan, “You attack them from the front and we will take her from the rear – that...

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Engineering Terror

Engineering Terror

By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Sep , 2013

Two dreaded Indian terrorists - Abdul Karim Tunda and Yasin Bhatkal - have been apprehended recently near Indo-Nepal border.  Both of them had developed significant Pakistani connections; in...

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India lost in Afghan endgame

India lost in Afghan endgame

By: Kanwal Sibal | Issue: Courtesy: Mail Today | Date: 27 Aug , 2013

The situation in Afghanistan is full of uncertainties and the prospects of India’s neighbourhood becoming even more difficult for us are real. We have little control over the situation in...

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Insight into Myanmar

Insight into Myanmar

By: Shubhodeep Chattopadhyay | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 26 Aug , 2013

Ethnic minorities constitute almost one-third of the total population; the minority communities are located mainly in seven states, and these are named after these communities. The following...

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The Chinese Game Plan

The Chinese Game Plan

By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Vol. 28.3 Jul-Sep 2013 | Date: 26 Aug , 2013

With the opening of two fronts against New Delhi, Beijing will, in collusion with Islamabad, repeat ‘1962’ in the near future on an enlarged scale. The ‘peace’ witnessed in Kashmir for...

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Coherence and Resolve in Foreign Policy

Coherence and Resolve in Foreign Policy

By: Maj Gen Pushpendra Singh | Issue: Vol. 28.2 Apr-Jun 2013 | Date: 23 Aug , 2013

In the recent LoC incident, many TV channels indulged in competitive hysteria and opposition too went overboard demanding ten heads for one! This contrasts glaringly with the mature support the...

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India’s Foreign Policy : A Muddle for Sixty Two Years

India’s Foreign Policy : A Muddle for Sixty Two Years

By: Maj Gen Sheru Thapliyal, PhD | Issue: Vol 24.4 Oct-Dec 2009 | Date: 17 Aug , 2013

The India-Pakistan joint statement at Sharm-al-Sheikh during the NAM conference in which Balochistan was mentioned for no rational reasons has once again brought into sharp focus, lack of...

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Dialogue With Pak A Trap

Dialogue With Pak A Trap

By: Kanwal Sibal | Issue: Courtesy: Mail Today | Date: 13 Aug , 2013

Our response to the killing of five Indian soldiers last week by the Pakistanis inside our Line of Control has again shown our inability to deal effectively with the dual issue of dialoguing with...

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How not to deal with Pakistan

How not to deal with Pakistan

By: Lt Gen NS Malik | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Aug , 2013

The dastardly act on the part of Pakistan Army on the LOC by ambushing a night patrol of 21 BIHAR and killing five soldiers is not only condemnable, but absolutely unacceptable in terms of...

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Pakistan needs firm handling not niceties

Pakistan needs firm handling not niceties

By: Lt Gen Harwant Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Aug , 2013

The recent killing of four soldiers and one junior commissioned officer near the LoC in the Poonch sector of J&K is yet another serious violation of peace along this line. For Pakistan army to...

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The time to trust Pakistan is long gone

The time to trust Pakistan is long gone

By: Dr Amarjit Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Aug , 2013

Nawaz Sharif set media wires buzzing when he proclaimed soon after the results of Pakistan’s elections were announced last month that he aims to (a) make peace with the terrorist outfits in...

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Reading China on Sino-Indian Border Issue

Reading China on Sino-Indian Border Issue

By: Bhaskar Roy | Issue: Courtesy: Uday India | Date: 06 Aug , 2013

The Chinese communist leadership has perfected the act of saying things and giving signals, leaving it to the other side to decipher and understand Their internal speeches and documents are...

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Feeding China, Indian Territory

Feeding China, Indian Territory

By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Aug , 2013

Post his recent trip to India, US Army Chief of Staff General Raymond T Odierno has described the India Army the most influential in Asia Pacific. Browse the web for the 10 most powerful...

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Chinese Goal: India’s isolation and encirclement

Chinese Goal: India’s isolation and encirclement

By: Maj Gen Sheru Thapliyal, PhD | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 Jul , 2013

Recorded history shows that India and China have loomed large in each other's consciousness from well before the first millennium. As both nations became independent almost at the same time, it...

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Four Point Musharraf Formula – Oxymoroning India?

Four Point Musharraf Formula – Oxymoroning India?

By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Jul , 2013

Critics would scoff at the word ‘oxymoroning’ saying there is no such word. What the minister could not learn at Oxford that it was the minister’s party that had first coined the phrase...

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Involve military in decision making to tackle China

Involve military in decision making to tackle China

By: Col (Dr) PK Vasudeva | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Jul , 2013

In April 2013, the Chinese troops came 19 km inside the Indian Territory in the Depsang valley in Ladakh, a desolate area 40 km southeast of Daulat Beg Oldie, a World War II airstrip which was...

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China cornered, India’s window of opportunity

China cornered, India’s window of opportunity

By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 11 Jul , 2013

China being strategically cornered globally in 2013 is a reality and this is likely to continue till such time China does not change its strategic postulations. Therefore this should have...

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