Geopolitics
Nation’s Security Overlooked for Individual Gains!
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Jan , 2014
It is amazing how issues of national security are given the short shrift in India. Whether it is by design or inadvertent can continue to be guessed. That there is political interference is...
Abe’s visit will bolster security ties
By: Kanwal Sibal | Issue: Courtesy: Mail Today | Date: 14 Jan , 2014
Japan’s Prime Minister Abe will be the chief guest at our next Republic Day, a decision that marks India’s reciprocal interest in deepening bilateral political and economic ties. Until now...
Fixing the Fault Lines in 2014
By: Kanwal Sibal | Issue: Courtesy: Mail Today | Date: 30 Dec , 2013
Our major foreign policy challenges are enduring and no dramatic change in our security environment is likely in 2014. Relations with Pakistan could actually worsen. Nawaz Sharif is focusing on...
Games Nations Play: Chinese Assertiveness & America’s Re-balancing
By: Brig Amar Cheema | Issue: Vol. 28.4 Oct-Dec 2013 | Date: 28 Dec , 2013
Realpolitik dictates a policy of ‘congagement’ of China and explains America’s reasons for accommodating the former at the grand table. Thus, while the US-Chinese relationship is expected...
Terror and Violence in China
By: Dr Sudhir Hindwan | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 Dec , 2013
The recent skirmishes between the Chinese security forces and the separatist Uygur Muslims in the Xinjiang province on Tuesday have once again created vulnerable ground for serious ethnic crisis...
Managing the neighbours
By: Kanwal Sibal | Issue: Courtesy: The Telegraph | Date: 23 Dec , 2013
India’s search for a successful neighbourhood policy continues. Sections of our society are anxious about our failure to manage our relations with neighbours properly. We tend to blame...
Chinese Innovations
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Vol. 28.4 Oct-Dec 2013 | Date: 20 Dec , 2013
When Steve Jobs passed away, experts debated as to why China did not produce its own Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, or Mark Zuckerberg? One contributor to Forbes explained that the emergence of such...
US: Bullying Not Diplomacy
By: Kanwal Sibal | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Dec , 2013
The arrest and hand-cuffing of India’s Deputy Consul General (DCG) Devyani Khobragade in New York as if she is a criminal with all the intrusive personal indignities heaped on a “felon” by...
Border Defence Cooperation Agreement Kaput!
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Dec , 2013
If the ruling coterie was looking for brownie points for the coming elections by hyping that signing of the BDCA with China had put at rest all border problems till eventual peaceful resolution,...
Eastern Ladakh: Can India Afford the Luxury of Inaction?
By: Lt Gen (Dr) JS Bajwa | Issue: Vol. 28.4 Oct-Dec 2013 | Date: 14 Dec , 2013
The Armed Forces are India’s “hard-power” assets and not a tool for diplomacy on the borders. Deployment of an armed force to support a diplomatic effort is axiomatic as it lends strength...
Leadership Changes in Pakistan: Portents for the Future
By: Maj Gen Dhruv C Katoch | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 11 Dec , 2013
Pakistan’s Army Chief, General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani finally demitted office on 28 November 2013, ending weeks of speculation. General Raheel Sharif has replaced him, marking an important change...
China’s Strategic Overture to Japan
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 Nov , 2013
China has added another chapter to her “peaceful” rise by declaring another “defensive” measure; that all non-commercial aircraft entering a broad zone over the East China Sea must first...
Organisational and Structural Evolution – Lessons from Al-Qaeda
By: Dr. S. V. Raghavan & Dr. V. Balasubramaniyan | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 21 Nov , 2013
The global community has witnessed transformations in terror groups across the spectrum. These transformations can be attributed to various external changes that force the terror groups to change...
India’s expanding power gap with China
By: Kanwal Sibal | Issue: Courtesy: The Telegraph | Date: 13 Nov , 2013
We have a tendency to overstate the positives of our relations with China and downplay the negatives. This creates the impression that our ties are better than they actually are, and that the...
Sri Lanka denies rejection of visas to IBAHRI delegation
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Nov , 2013
It is categorically rejected that entry visas have been denied to a delegation of the International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI), as alleged by IBAHRI in a press statement...
China: Some Questions
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Nov , 2013
The fact that the media is government paid and government controlled in Peoples Republic of China (PRC) is no secret. It is convenient since then the population, particularly the youth can be fed...
Decoding the Dragon’s Game Plan
By: Maj Gen Pushpendra Singh | Issue: Vol. 28.3 Jul-Sep 2013 | Date: 07 Nov , 2013
Over the past decades, we have constantly tried to mollify the Dragon. In the bargain, we have been inveigled into surrendering our bargaining chips one by one. Therefore, we should now strive to...
China’s Asian Age Depends on Spliting India?
By: Danvir Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Nov , 2013
Zhan Lue, in his article published by the China International Institute for Strategic Studies on 8 August 2009 titled “If China takes a little action, the so called Great Indian Federation can...
China-Pakistan double trouble for India
By: Brig Arun Bajpai | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Oct , 2013
Indian political establishment, duly advised by Babus who staff the Ministry of Defence on the pretext of civilian control over military, with both of them having no knowledge of matters...
Border Defence Cooperation Agreement (BDCA) between India and China
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Oct , 2013
The Government of the Republic of India and the Government of the People’s Republic of China (hereinafter referred to as the ‘two sides’), Firmly believing that the India-China Strategic...