Spotlights
India’s Foreign Policy Challenges 2017 Analysed
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 01 Jan , 2017
Fluidity in global geopolitical dynamics on verge of 2017 centring on USA, Russia and China with consequent impact on Indian foreign policy is already evident with the initial posturing of US...
China-Nepal Relations: The new Normal may be Troubling for India
By: Anuradha Rai | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Monitor | Date: 30 Dec , 2016
Beginning a new level of bilateral military engagement, Nepal will hold its first ever joint military exercise with China on February 10, 2017 named Pratikar-1 that will be on training Nepali...
‘One China’ Policy : Should Trump Let Sleeping Dogs Lie?
By: Praggya Surana | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 29 Dec , 2016
United States President-elect Donald Trump chose to receive a phone call from the Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen, congratulating him on his victory. This conversation broke decades of diplomatic...
Assessing the Right Strategy to Deal with Emerging Contours of Conflict in J&K
By: Brig Narender Kumar (Retd.) | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 28 Dec , 2016
Armies do not fight wars; nations fight wars. War is not a military activity conducted by soldiers, rather a social activity that involves entire nations. Carl von Clausewitz noted that passion,...
US President Elect Donald Trump & Nuclear Restraint
By: Vappala Balachandran | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 27 Dec , 2016
On December 23 US President Elect Donald Trump “stunned” nuclear weapons experts by telling Mika Brzezinski, co-host of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe programme” that he was encouraging a nuclear...
Emerging Russia-Pakistan Strategic Ties may become India's Newest Bugbear
By: Dr Bawa Singh | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Monitor | Date: 25 Dec , 2016
Realist theorists like Hans Morgenthau hold that in international relations, there are no permanent friends or foes but always national interests. It will remain very interesting to see the...
China’s First Cyber Security Law
By: Abhishek Pratap Singh | Issue: Courtesy: IDSA | Date: 24 Dec , 2016
The passage of China’s first Cyber security law on November 7, 2016 marks another step in the direction of increased oversight over the use of the internet in China. The regulatory framework for...
About Wars of the Future
By: Artsrun Hovhannisyan | Issue: Vol. 31.3 Jul-Sep 2016 | Date: 23 Dec , 2016
General Starry initiated the development of an entirely new approach to military operations. This started the world on a military journey that, thanks to great advancements in technology...
Pakistan in Deep Deception – India has a Difficult Deal
By: Bhaskar Roy | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 22 Dec , 2016
Depression can be treated. But self-inflicted deception which hurts neighbours can be controlled to an extent if the patient is locked up in a padded cell. This self-deception is like a jigsaw...
The Heart of Asia Conference: Zero Tolerance to Terrorism
By: Sumit Kumar | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 21 Dec , 2016
The sixth Heart of Asia (HoA) Conference was held in Amritsar on 3rd and 4th December 2016, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani inaugurating the ministerial...
A Game-Changer: Agni-V Marks a Shift in India’s Nuclear Deployment Strategy
By: Dr Sanjay Badri-Maharaj | Issue: Courtesy: www.swarajyamag.com | Date: 20 Dec , 2016
The long awaited fourth test of India’s Agni-V missile will mark a major milestone in the development of India’s Credible Minimum Deterrent posture (CMD). Expected in late 2015 or early to...
CPEC: Pakistan's newest Holy Cow could also become its Millstone
By: Shabir Choudhry | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Monitor | Date: 19 Dec , 2016
Pakistan faces many serious problems — and among them is the status and invulnerability of holy cows, and people who are above Pakistani laws. The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is not a...
Countering Fidayeen Attacks
By: Col Vivek Chadha (Retd.) | Issue: Courtesy: IDSA | Date: 18 Dec , 2016
There has been an upsurge in violence in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) in recent years. This has been accompanied by increasing cross-border violations by Pakistan and heavy retaliation by India. The...
A Red Motorcycle and A Country
By: Maj Gaurav Arya | Issue: Courtesy: https://majorgauravarya.wordpress.com/ | Date: 17 Dec , 2016
General Sam Manekshaw paced up and down his office, his furrowed brow almost touching the center of his forehead. His lean frame was ramrod straight, his gait long and striding, typical of...
Pakistan Navy's New Task Force has Serious Implications for Region
By: Mahendra Ved | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Monitor | Date: 14 Dec , 2016
The establishment of Pakistan Navy’s special ‘Task Force-88’ (TF-88) on December 13, 2016, exclusively for maritime security of Gwadar port, is the next logical step that China and Pakistan have...
Geostrategic Convergence of India’s Act East Policy and Indo-Pacific...
By: Surbhi Moudgil | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 12 Dec , 2016
Asia today stands at a geopolitical intersection with increasing shift in economic powers, growing strategic disability and subverting unilateral contentions grounded on unsettled historical...
More Roads to the Tibet Borders
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Courtesy: http://claudearpi.blogspot.in/ | Date: 10 Dec , 2016
China actively continues to invest on infrastructure towards Tibet’s borders with its neighbours. According to Kangba TV, a new Yunnan-Tibet highway is under construction. The project will...
Politicians' outburst against Army a new low in politics
By: Sudip Talukdar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Dec , 2016
The West Bengal Chief Minister’s shrill and unwarranted outburst against the Indian Army has touched an abysmal low in political discourse, unprecedented in 70 years of our independence. What...
Great Game in Afghanistan: Pak Terror, Russian Roulette and Chinese Checkers
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Monitor | Date: 08 Dec , 2016
The recently concluded Sixth Ministerial ‘Heart of Asia’ Conference at Amritsar, attended by some 30 countries and international and regional organisations, emerged as a platform for stronger...
‘Heart of Asia Summit 2016’ Critically Analysed
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 07 Dec , 2016
The ‘Heart of Asia’ which Afghanistan really is, continues to be brutally bled by Pakistan’s bloody terrorism strategies, which five ‘Heart of Asia’ Summits so far have been unable to...