IDR Updates
Kashmir a settled issue should be taken off the UN Agenda
By: Brig Anil Gupta | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Sep , 2020
India has a made very strong appeal for permanently removing the Jammu & Kashmir issue under outdated agenda item of the India-Pakistan question from the United Nations Security Council (UNSC)...
Iran in New Regional Alignment
By: K.N. Pandita | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Sep , 2020
CIA overplayed capitalist hegemonic role in Iran during the Iranian oil nationalization movement under Dr Mussadegh in the 1950s. Thereafter Muhammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, inexperienced in national...
Indian Chess is Not the Chinese Game of Weiqi
By: Dr Rajasimman Sundaram | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Sep , 2020
Your deployment was as wild geese in flight - nobody understood it, until the cub was caught in the tiger's den, and all were shocked. [Pan Zhao] Introduction: The situation along the...
Defence Production & Export Promotion Policy will be the oxygen for the...
By: Lt Gen (Dr) JS Bajwa | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Sep , 2020
IBT: India has recently imposed an import embargo on 101 items in the defence sector. How well is the country positioned for indigenous manufacturing of these items? How can the government make...
Standing Up to China
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Sep , 2020
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on September 2, “We’re hoping for a peaceful resolution to the situation on the China-India border…. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is engaged in a...
Indian Offensive to Retake Chinese Seized Territory: The Hidden Story
By: Danvir Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Sep , 2020
On 3 July, the Prime Minister of India arrived at Leh on a surprise visit. Flanked by his Army Chief and the Chief of Defence Staff, he was received by the Army Commander of Northern Command, Lt...
India also needs Anti Access Area Denial Capabilities
By: Brig Anil Gupta | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Sep , 2020
With the fire-spitting dragon becoming aggressive by the day and two-front threat becoming almost a certainty, India needs to shed its historic “continentalist” mind set and transform from a...
Confronting the Dragon One Step at a Time
By: Brig Deepak Sinha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 Sep , 2020
The Chief of Defence Staff, General Bipin Rawat’s, unambiguous statement that military options were on the table if diplomatic efforts failed to resolve the ongoing imbroglio with China,...
Gorkha Soldiers and India-Nepal relations: A Veteran’s View
By: Brig SP Sinha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Sep , 2020
The recent slide in relations between India and Nepal triggered by the border stand-off has been unprecedented. Nepal’s claim on the Indian territory of Kalapani (around 400 sq km), which...
PLA Killed in Galwan Clash
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 Sep , 2020
Post the Indian Army-PLA clash at Galwan on the night of June 15-16, India had acknowledged suffering 20 killed in action (KIA). China remained mum about casualties suffered by PLA. PLA killed...
Capture of Hajipir Pass: A Saga of Guts and Glory
By: Nilesh Kunwar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Sep , 2020
Much has been spoken and written about the capture of Hajipir Pass in Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) during the 1965 Indo-Pak conflict and rightly so, because this was indeed a stupendous...
The Islamic State Footprints are all over India
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 31 Aug , 2020
There are some very significant indicators, which indicate the widespread footprints of the Islamic State in India. Recently in Bengaluru, a 28 year old ophthalmologist, Abdur Rehman, was...
Pakistan’s FATF Test sans Godfather Chairman
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 Aug , 2020
At the third and final plenary of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) held virtually on June 24, 2020, the decision was to keep Pakistan in the "Grey List" as it had failed to check flow of...
Emerging Strategic Shifts in West Asia
By: Lt Gen Rameshwar Yadav | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 Aug , 2020
The ’Abraham Accord’ between Israel and UAE brokered by US is a path breaking pivotal political event impacting the strategic panorama of the troubled West Asia. On the face of it, the Accord...
Gupkar Declaration 2.0
By: Brig Anil Gupta | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Aug , 2020
Not content with anti-national, seditious, pro-separatist Gupkar Declaration signed on 04 August 2019, a day prior to the historical announcement of Modi Government, the six leaders of Kashmir...
Erdogan: An Aspiring Caliph
By: Manish Rai | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 Aug , 2020
Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is working hard on both domestic and international fronts to advance his grand design of reviving an Islamic caliphate under his rule. It is now no secret...
Handling Insurgencies
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 Aug , 2020
Insurgencies are generally believed to be having lives of about 50 years but somehow they have tended to linger on in India. There are many reasons for this, one being that the use of force is...
Winds of Change in Kashmir but Pakistan refuses to Relent
By: Brig Anil Gupta | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Aug , 2020
Kashmir is fast returning to normalcy. The Central Government has decided to withdraw 100 companies of Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) which were inducted post 05 August 2019, to maintain law...
Decoding Chinese Strategic Intent!
By: Col Anil Athale | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Aug , 2020
An old Bollywood song (from Dev Anand’s film ‘CID’) ‘Kahin pe nigahe, kahin pe nishana’ (while eyes are fixed on something, the target is somewhere else) best encapsulates the Chinese...
Tibet’s future?
By: Phintso Thonden (Phundhon) | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Aug , 2020
Earlier this summer, following China and India’s deadly border skirmishes, there was a spike in public debate on Tibet’s legal status in the Indian news media. Many people claimed India did...