Spotlights
Caribbean Air Arms Requirements Offer an Opportunity for India
By: Dr Sanjay Badri-Maharaj | Issue: Courtesy: IDSA | Date: 10 Nov , 2016
When one examines the air arms of the islands of the Commonwealth Caribbean, Guyana and Suriname, it is evident that a yawning gap in defence preparedness is emerging in the form of an acute...
Pakistan’s Military Containment an Inescapable Indian Imperative
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 09 Nov , 2016
Pakistan’s military containment becomes an inescapable Indian security imperative in 2016. Despite, contemporary geopolitics heavily loaded against Pakistan, surge in Pakistan’s India-centric...
1971 War: The Ganganagar Sector
By: Maj Gen Sukhwant Singh | Issue: Book Excerpt: India's War since Independence | Date: 08 Nov , 2016
The presence in the general area of Montgomery-Okara-Bahawalpur of the Pakistan strike force, II Corps, consisting of 1 Armoured Division and 33 Infantry Division, and the possibility of building...
Trade vs Terror: Time for China to Choose
By: Sanjay Kumar Kar | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Monitor | Date: 07 Nov , 2016
India-China relations have been severely impacted by China’s open support for Pakistan on many fronts. One of the important areas where China seems to be least worried is cross-border terrorism...
Tibet's Party Boss visits Indian Border
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Courtesy: http://claudearpi.blogspot.in/ | Date: 06 Nov , 2016
According to The China Daily, Wu Yingjie, the Party Secretary of the Tibet Autonomous Region, visited Yümé (or Yumai) ‘the most sparsely populated town in China’ on October 12. The...
A SAARC sans Pakistan
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Courtesy: Uday India | Date: 05 Nov , 2016
In the following pages, a regular contributor to this magazine, who happens to be veteran journalist of the country, has described why the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC)...
Understanding The Impact Of The Rafale Fighter Jet And S-400 Missile System...
By: Rammohan Kalluri | Issue: Courtesy: www.swarajyamag.com | Date: 03 Nov , 2016
On 23 September, the Rafale fighter jet deal was signed by French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian and Indian Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar. Over half a month later, on 15 October, India...
Xi Visit to Bangladesh: Why Dhaka sees Beijing and Delhi ties through...
By: Dr Sreeradha Datta | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Monitor | Date: 02 Nov , 2016
Arriving at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport, Dhaka is always a happy moment for me. It was no different earlier this month when I went as a participant at the South Asia Economic...
Need for Persevering with the Dialogue Process in Jammu & Kashmir
By: Gautam Sen | Issue: Courtesy: IDSA | Date: 01 Nov , 2016
The latest process of dialogue with Kashmir Valley separatists initiated by the Yashwant Sinha-led five-member delegation is an interesting development. Notwithstanding Sinha’s claim that the...
After the Collapsed US-Russia Agreement, Advantage Assad
By: Derek Verbakel | Issue: Courtesy: IPCS | Date: 31 Oct , 2016
On 19 September, the Russia-backed regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad declared dead the flawed-but-hyped peace deal enacted a week earlier by the US and Russia. The agreement aimed to...
China-Pakistan Corridor against India's Strategic Interests
By: Jai Kumar Verma | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Monitor | Date: 30 Oct , 2016
The much touted $46 billion, 3,000-km-long China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) links Gwadar port in the troubled state of Balochistan to China’s restive autonomous region of Xinjiang. The...
1971 War: Military Aims and Objectives
By: Air Vice Marshal AK Tiwary | Issue: Book Excerpt: Indian Air Force in Wars | Date: 29 Oct , 2016
“1965 and 1971 Wars were a lesson in how wars should not be fought… the sooner people disabused themselves of the impression that the 1965 War ended in a victory for Pakistan the...
Is Turkey’s insistence on a military role in Mosul a strategic miscalculation?
By: Md. Muddassir Quamar | Issue: Courtesy: IDSA | Date: 28 Oct , 2016
Turkey’s insistence on a role for itself in the ongoing joint offensive of Iraqi armed forces and Kurdish Peshmarga supported by limited US ground forces and air strikes to liberate Mosul from...
South China Sea: Vietnam Perceptibly Betrayed by the Philippines
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 27 Oct , 2016
More than the United States it is Vietnam that stands perceptibly betrayed this week on South China Sea dispute solidarity against China, with new Philippines President Duterte declaring his...
India should not Gloat over a Moderate Tactical Success
By: Lt Gen Kamal Davar (Retd) | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Monitor | Date: 26 Oct , 2016
The last three weeks may not have been historically momentous, as some in the establishment would like us to believe, but certainly India has been in the news, both within and globally, and more...
Birth of A Boomer: How India Built Its Nuclear Submarine
By: Rakesh Krishnan Simha | Issue: Courtesy: www.swarajyamag.com | Date: 25 Oct , 2016
During the 1971 War, as India’s armoured columns prepared to crash through the Pakistan Army’s defences and thundered down the road to Lahore, the US and British navies made a threatening...
India’s Foreign Policy and the China-Pakistan Axis 2016
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 24 Oct , 2016
India’s foreign policy has far too long been vainly straitjacketed by pious hopes that Indian appeasement policies of the 2004-14 era towards China and Pakistan would induce moderation in their...
Cross LOC Strike and India’s Reputation for Resolve
By: Abhay Kumar Singh | Issue: Courtesy: IDSA | Date: 23 Oct , 2016
India’s cross-LoC strikes on terrorist launch pads located in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) have been much discussed in recent days. While the government has officially described the attacks...
Can BBIN Work as Antidote to Failures of SAARC?
By: Amitava Mukherjee | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Monitor | Date: 22 Oct , 2016
As Pakistan is now aiming for a greater South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) with China and the Central Asian states in its fold, the importance of the emerging...
Russia Perceptively Retrieves Policy Drift in South Asia Policy towards Pakistan
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 21 Oct , 2016
Russia has finally positively acted in retrieving its South Asia policy drift towards Pakistan witnessed recently in Russia-India Summit on the side-lines of BRICS Summit in Goa last weekend....