Geopolitics
The Gaza Debate: A View Point
By: Dr Amarjit Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 Jul , 2014
The Rajya Sabha had been pressing for a debate on the Gaza action of Israel, and with overwhelming pressure, including by threatening to forestall all other discussions in the Rajya Sabha, they...
Know Yourself and Your Enemies
By: Air Marshal B D Jayal | Issue: Courtesy: The Telegraph | Date: 12 Jul , 2014
Two books titled ‘Deception - Pakistan, The United States and the Global Nuclear Weapons Conspiracy’ by Adrian Levy and Catherine Scott- Clark and ‘Military Inc.- Inside Pakistan’s...
Impact of Talibanisation
By: Alok Bansal | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 10 Jul , 2014
The most serious implication of this onward march of the Taliban has been the radicalisation of Pakistan’s armed forces. As the armed forces draw their manpower from the same society, its...
Pakistan must not be India’s neighbor
By: Dr Amarjit Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Jul , 2014
Does India want good neighborly relations with its neighbors? Yes, but not with Pakistan. Does India love its neighbors? Yes, but not Pakistan. Should India live on good terms with its...
Pakistan is looking at a long-term disaster
By: Maj Gen Dhruv C Katoch | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 02 Jul , 2014
On Sunday, 15 June 2014, a press release from Pakistan’s Inter Services Public Relation (ISPR), announced the launch of “Operation Zarb-e-Azb”, to clear North Waziristan Agency (NWA) of...
Prepare for the Next Great War
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Vol 24.2 Apr-Jun 2009 | Date: 30 Jun , 2014
Today, India is ringed by turbulent states – Pakistan (land boundary with India 3,310 kms in the northwest), Nepal (land boundary with India 1,751 kms in the north), Bangladesh (land boundary...
The games nations play
By: Vikram Sood | Issue: Courtesy: MidDay Mumbai | Date: 26 Jun , 2014
In the early days of the Cold War, nationalism was a particularly bad word in underdeveloped or developing countries, whose primary purpose was to service the First World and fulfil its economic...
Unraveling the direction of India’s China policy
By: Col R Hariharan | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Jun , 2014
Since then Prime Minister Modi has returned home after his maiden foreign visit to Bhutan. Modi’s as a relationship building exercise it may be called a moderately successful visit, considering...
Infrastructure, energy, defence key sectors for India-Japan cooperation
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Jun , 2014
Pushing for greater multi-sector cooperation between New Delhi and Tokyo, senior political representatives identified infrastructure, energy and defence as key areas for partnership between the...
Strategic Depth – Not Mere Military Term
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Jun , 2014
Strategic Depth is a term generally related to military operations. It has been described as the distances between the front-lines or battle sectors and the combatant’s capital cities,...
Competitive Shia-Sunni Gas Pipelines Politics?
By: Brig Amar Cheema | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 Jun , 2014
When combat soldiers are faced with a chemical attack, the military practice to exhale polluted air before donning a protective mask is by shouting ‘gas-gas-gas.’ By repeating the ‘G’...
Pakistan’s Domestic Jihad
By: Vikram Sood | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Jun , 2014
Pakistan watchers would not find the current spate of terror in that country surprising because there has been a steady escalation in its lethality, its dramatic impact, geographical range and...
In Bhutan too, Chinese grab land
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 Jun , 2014
On August 9, Kuensel, a Bhutanese publication, reported that the Indian National Security Advisor (NSA) Shivshankar Menon arrived in Thimbu to ‘congratulate the new Prime Minister Tshering...
Danger at Sea
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 08 Jun , 2014
Vietnam, India’s strategic partner in the east is facing the heat. Not that Vietnam has not seen much worse days, having fought years of war with the US, latter using every known weapon system...
Lengthening Malevolent Chinese Shadow
By: Maj Gen Sheru Thapliyal, PhD | Issue: Vol 25.4 Oct-Dec 2010 | Date: 07 Jun , 2014
“It is astonishing that we have never till date asked China to vacate our territory occupied by it in Aksai Chin. We go out of our way, even today, to explain away every Chinese intrusion into...
J&K: Theatre of the Next War
By: Maj Gen GD Bakshi, (Retd) | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 30 May , 2014
Significance of the Gilgit–Gwadar Corridor The ominously rising strategic salience of the Gilgit–Baltistan region was made sharply apparent by Selig Harrison’s startling disclosure in...
Will the wind blow from the East?
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 May , 2014
The tides are changing. As Narendra Modi takes oath as the new Prime Minister of India, Asia is fast becoming the center of the world. Agence France-Presse reported that China and Russia signed...
The Insoluble Equation: Indo-Pak Relations
By: Anand K Verma | Issue: Book Excerpt: Reassessing Pakistan | Date: 25 May , 2014
The two-nation theory has mired Indo-Pak relationship into an intractable problem in Kashmir. More than a half-century has gone by after independence and four wars fought during this period but...
Foreign Policy and Power Projection under Modi
By: Col R Hariharan | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 May , 2014
Narendra Modi, the BJP’s prime ministerial candidate, has been given massive mandate by the people in the just concluded general elections to the parliament. The BJP is poised to get a...
Rebalancing the Strategic Affairs Post 16 May 2014
By: Danvir Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 May , 2014
Narendra Modi has won a landslide victory in the general elections of 2014. The political pundits call it a titanic shift in Indian politics. The verdict of May 16, 2014 is overwhelmingly in...