Spotlights
How IAF Firepower Severely Dented Pakistan’s Psyche During The Kargil War
By: Rakesh Krishnan Simha | Issue: Courtesy: www.swarajyamag.com | Date: 04 Jul , 2023
On 12 June 1999, Pakistani Foreign Minister Sartaj Aziz hastily arrived in New Delhi, ostensibly to discuss ways of ending the Kargil War. Aziz, who deeply resents India, had landed with a single...
Way Ahead For Syrian Kurds
By: Manish Rai | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 Jun , 2023
With the recent re-election of President RecepTayyip Erdogan, Turkey has escalated its attacks on Kurdish-held regions of north and northeast Syria. Erdogan’s animosity toward the Syrian Kurds...
IAF defeated PAF in 1965 War
By: Air Vice Marshal AK Tiwary | Issue: Vol 22.1 Jan - Mar 2007 | Date: 29 Jun , 2023
After few sorties by the IAF against East Pakistan on 7 Sept a political embargo was imposed on further attacks in the East. This remained in force despite continued PAF strikes in East on 7...
ASHRAYA and SUVIGYA vs SPARSH
By: Air Marshal SY Savur, PVSM, AVSM (Retd) | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Jun , 2023
Legacy pension disbursement system named ASHRAYA & SUVIGYA vs SPARSH (System for Pension Administration – RAKSHA) Aashraya and Suvigya are/were established pension disbursement systems...
Idea whose time has come
By: Prof (Dr) SN Misra | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 Jun , 2023
On 24th July 1991 when Dr Manmohan Singh was presenting the budget, he was cognizant of the plethora of economic ills that plagued India; inflation hovering around 14%, cost of interest to total...
Relevance of Indo-centrcism for a strategic culture in Sri Lankan national...
By: Dr Punsara Amarasinghe | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Jun , 2023
The concept of strategic culture has derived from the phrase political culture as it is the task of the political culture of a country to determine the state’s attitude towards peace and...
Erdogan Won But Turkiye May Lose
By: Manish Rai | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Jun , 2023
After facing the toughest challenge of his political career to date, Turkiye President Recep Tayyip Erdogan got re-elected for a third term. Defeating Kemal Kilicdaroglu, presidential candidate...
An Overview of UN Peacekeeping Operations
By: Michael K Touthang | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 May , 2023
29th May is observed every year as International Day of UN Peacekeepers. The United Nations was established in the aftermath of the World War II to save succeeding generations from the scourge of...
Russia will not allow hunger in the world
By: Slavisha Batko Milacic | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 May , 2023
A year after the war in Ukraine began, grain exports across the Black Sea will be extended for another two months. This is a very important deal, given the deepening of global hunger. And today,...
Islamic Jihad Emerging as Most Eminent Threat from Gaza
By: Manish Rai | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 May , 2023
The ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) has taken effect in the Gaza Strip after days of cross-border fighting. The confrontation left at least 33 Palestinians dead...
India France Nuclear Ability and Liability: Jaitapur Nuclear Plant
By: Abhyuday Saraswat | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 May , 2023
India-France nuclear relations have been growing stronger over the years. The two countries have had a long-standing partnership in the field of nuclear energy, which has been strengthened by...
Taliban’s Failed Coup to Establish a Foothold in Afghan Embassy in India
By: Neelapu Shanti | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 May , 2023
The recent surreptitious coup by the Taliban to insert its member in the Afghan Mission in New Delhi on April 25, 2023, raised the fundamental issue of the so-called Taliban government’s latent...
Challenges in South Asia – Can India Ride the Tide?
By: Dr Manavik Raj | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 May , 2023
India’s role in diplomacy and strategic thinking has a rich legacy. From being a civilizational state to embracing non-alignment, the contours of statesmanship have taken a new dimension. The...
Tackling International Food Security
By: Col (Dr) PK Vasudeva | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 May , 2023
At meetings open to all World Trade Organisation (WTO) members on 3-4 May, the chair of the agriculture negotiations — Alparslan Acarsoy of Türkiye — urged participants to accelerate their...
Rawalpindi Passes the Buck on TTP Resurgence and Spews Anti-India Propaganda
By: Nilesh Kunwar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 Apr , 2023
Rather than providing answers, Director General [DG] of Pakistan army’s media wing Inter Services Public Relations [ISPR] Maj Gen Ahmed Sharif Chaudhary’s maiden press conference on Tuesday...
Display of Ideology through the Architecture: The Case of the US Embassy in...
By: Dr Punsara Amarasinghe | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 Apr , 2023
The role of architecture and the built environment -more generally for political – is evidenced from the most ancient times throughout history. When British ruled India, their concern in...
Ideology and Civil Services in India
By: Prof (Dr) SN Misra | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Apr , 2023
Max Weber had argued that bureaucracy constitutes “the most efficient and rational way in which human activity can be organized and that systematic process and organized hierarchies are...
The Making of an Officer and a Gentleman-II
By: Brig Pradeep Sharma | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 Apr , 2023
In my earlier write up, the aspect of training and molding a cadet through Academies was dwelt upon in brief. It built up further with Customs, Traditions and Culture. The shaping of an Officer...
BRICS and Dollar
By: Abhyuday Saraswat | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Apr , 2023
Since the beginning of Russia’s “Special MilitaryOperation” in Ukraine it has received a flood of sanctions such as SWIFT sanction and more from US and its allies. Russia’s oil was...
The Importance of Pangchen
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Courtesy: http://claudearpi.blogspot.in/ | Date: 10 Apr , 2023
China has recently renamed 11 places in Arunachal Pradesh. The first-named is Pangchen; it is an important location, mainly because the border in this sector partly depends on the traditional...