Geopolitics
India-China stand-off: Sun Tzu in action
By: Col R Hariharan | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 Apr , 2013
Merely by sending a platoon of their troops to camp 19 km (upgraded after 10 days from 10 km reported earlier) inside our territory on February 15 near Daulat Beg Oldi (DBO) along the Line of...
China Mocking Pussy Footers
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 Apr , 2013
In law, treason is the crime that covers some of the more extreme acts against one's sovereignty or nation. A person who commits treason is known in law as a traitor. By another...
China: Hum Dekh Rahe Hain – We Are Watching!
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Apr , 2013
Commenting on the latest Chinese intrusion in Ladakh, Foreign Minister Salman Khurshid echoed former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi’s famous cliché “Hum Dekh Rahen Hain, Hamen Dekhna Hoga, Hum...
India-China Border Dispute
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Apr , 2013
The continuing (since April 15,2013) Chinese troop intrusion ( about 20 troops) 10 kms into Indian territory near Burthe in the Daulat Beg Oldi (DBO) area of Eastern Ladakh in the western sector...
China’s arms sales to Pakistan unsettling South Asian security
By: Dr Monika Chansoria | Issue: Vol 25.4 Oct-Dec 2010 | Date: 19 Apr , 2013
Underscoring its primacy as Pakistan’s primary benefactor in the realm of arms transfers, China’s recent upward swing in conventional arms sales to Islamabad has ruffled feathers as far as...
Indian Military in Afghanistan
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 17 Apr , 2013
A study released by the Centre for Strategic and International Studies, USA on 14 Jan 2013 has totaled the direct spending by the US on the war in Afghanistan for the period FY2001 to FY2013 as...
Afghanistan – Future Uncertain
By: Vikram Sood | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Apr , 2013
Events in Afghanistan had gathering momentum in March and quite apparently preparations for end 2014 were now looking serious and urgent. Closely following the visit of Defence Secretary Chuck...
Why the North Korean stand off?
By: Col R Hariharan | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Apr , 2013
There are both contemporary and historical reasons behind the North Korean threat to launch an offensive against South Korea and strike at U.S. bases in Guam and Hawaii. North Korea (Democratic...
BRICS: A wall for some and a platform for others
By: Vikram Sood | Issue: Courtesy: MidDay Mumbai | Date: 05 Apr , 2013
Success at multilateral events like the recently concluded BRICS-5 summit at Durban would be difficult to measure. Nevertheless, members of BRICS must have done something right to have attracted...
India a mere spectator in the Great Game!
By: Danvir Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 Mar , 2013
The Great Game or the Geo Strategic power play, in Afghanistan, started somewhere in 1813, post Russo-Persian treaty. Since then over the two centuries, this region has witnessed varied players;...
Is there an endgame in Afghanistan?
By: Vikram Sood | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 Mar , 2013
The visit of U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel's visit to Kabul had been greeted by two suicide attacks on March 9 that left 18 dead. The Taliban were obviously leaving their calling card. But...
China rises, India falters
By: Vikram Sood | Issue: Courtesy: MidDay Mumbai | Date: 25 Mar , 2013
In a recent conversation with President Zardari, China’s newPresident, Xi Jinping declared that his country supported Pakistan in its efforts to maintain national sovereignty and independence...
Need a Muscular Indian Strategy in Afghanistan
By: Pinaki Bhattacharya | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 19 Mar , 2013
Even at the cost of sounding bellicose with that expressed need in the title of this paper, this writer will argue that Afghanistan stands as a shining example of the success of the country’s...
Uncomfortable questions on land-swapping with Bangladesh
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 Mar , 2013
Pakistan has done it again. In its continuing hybrid war against India(about which I have already written in this column), two terrorists belonging to Hizbul Mujahedeen, which is based in...
Marines: An Over-anxiety to oblige the Italian Government
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Mar , 2013
An over-anxiety on the part of the Government of India to oblige the Italian Government on the issue of the two Italian Marines, who have been charged with killing two Kerala fishermen wrongly...
China and Pakistan: Plain Talk is the Key!
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 08 Mar , 2013
Diplomacy does not imply ignoring the obvious where national security is involved. When China warned India to cease oil exploration in Vietnamese waters, there were calls that India should raise...
A set-back to Islamic extremism in Bangladesh
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Mar , 2013
The Shabag movement of Dhaka, which is also referred to as Bangladesh Spring, has been like the Tahrir Square movement of Egypt (2010), a spontaneous uprising of the youth of Dhaka demanding the...
A Nation and it’s Toothless Nuclear Doctrine
By: Air Marshal B D Jayal | Issue: Courtesy: The Telegraph | Date: 05 Mar , 2013
Even as the celebrations at our joining the ‘nuclear club’ start to ebb, contrary information from across the Atlantic is getting shriller. The Ministry of External Affairs now accepts that...
Chinese Nuclear Capabilities Deployed in Central China
By: Maj Gen Afsir Karim | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 25 Feb , 2013
By 1971, the first-known nuclear weapon was brought to Tibet and installed at Tsaidam Basin in northern Amdo (Ch: Qinghai).1 Today, the defence arsenal is believed to include 17 top-secret radar...
Maritime Ambitions of China
By: Vice Adm RN Ganesh | Issue: Book Excerpt: Rise of China | Date: 19 Feb , 2013
Before the 15th century China was a seafaring nation, with advanced shipbuilding and navigation skills. After the famous voyages of Admiral Zheng He during the Ming period which demonstrated what...