Geopolitics
Strategy for incremental influence in Asia
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Vol 17.4 Oct-Dec 2002 | Date: 03 Oct , 2013
In the unfolding geopolitical scenario, two major forces are driving the world today: modernisation and globalisation on one hand and terrorism on the other. The attacks on America on September...
Is al-Qaeda Waning?
By: Col US Rathore | Issue: Courtesy: Uday India | Date: 01 Oct , 2013
Al-Qaeda came into being in 1988-89, in Peshawar, Pakistan. The nine-year-long Soviet occupation of Afghanistan had turned into an ignominious retreat at the hands of Mujahedeen and Taliban....
Which India does America Want?
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 01 Oct , 2013
The question which India does America want is intriguing for there are no two India’s but then does America want a strong India or a weak one – that is the difficult part. There are no...
The Chinese Dream is Over: The Seven Perils
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Courtesy: Uday India | Date: 25 Sep , 2013
On August 19, an important meeting was held in Beijing during which President Xi Jinping called for a renewal of China’s focus on Marxist ideology. Xi was addressing a national conference on...
Chinese Aggressiveness: Need for appropriate response
By: Maj Gen PK Chakravorty | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 23 Sep , 2013
Incursions from China continue despite protests and meetings by India. It is reported that on 20 August 2013, there were intrusions by China in the Walong- Choglagam sector in Arunachal Pradesh...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...