Spotlights
Beyond the Combined Commanders Conference
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Dec , 2015
The Combined Commanders Conference that Prime Minister Narendra Modi chaired in recently was different from earlier such conferences. This is the first time that the Combined Commanders Conference...
China Prepares for a Modern War
By: Asanga Abeyagoonasekera | Issue: Courtesy: IPCS | Date: 19 Dec , 2015
“Under the leadership of the Communist Party, our military has gone from small to big, from weak to strong, from victory to victory. On this road, reform and innovation steps have never stopped.”...
The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria attacks in Paris: A shift in strategy?
By: EN Rammohan | Issue: Courtesy: Uday India | Date: 18 Dec , 2015
The massacre in Paris on November 13, following bombings in Beirut, Lebanon and the downing of a Russian passenger jet over Cairo all claimed by the ISIS reveals a terrorist organisation that has...
India’s Af-Pak policy: Risks and Opportunities
By: Divya Kumar Soti | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Monitor | Date: 17 Dec , 2015
The Ufa Joint Statement issued by the prime ministers of India and Pakistan had envisaged a preliminary framework to address the issues of terrorism, ceasefire violations and to find out “ways...
Can Suu Kyi Usher in True Democracy in Myanmar?
By: Wasbir Hussain | Issue: Courtesy: IPCS | Date: 15 Dec , 2015
Very rightly, key world leaders, including Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, have not forgotten to congratulate President Thein Sein, the head of Myanmar’s quasi-military regime, for...
China Threat Theory — An Appraisal
By: Lt Gen (Dr) JS Bajwa | Issue: Book Excerpt: Modernization of Chinese PLA | Date: 13 Dec , 2015
People are spreading the China Threat Theory and trying to split China, which not only hurts China, but also is not in the interest of world peace, stability and development. Those people who...
Jihadi Aggression and Nuclear Deterrence
By: Vice Admiral Vijay Shankar | Issue: Courtesy: IPCS | Date: 11 Dec , 2015
Pakistan’s use of terror organisations as a tool of State policy to wage unconventional war against India (Christine Fair, Fighting to the End) has perverse consequences that link...
Human rights violations in Jammu and Kashmir: Fact versus fallacy
By: Col Jaibans Singh | Issue: Courtesy: www.defenceinfo.com | Date: 10 Dec , 2015
On December, 10, World Human Rights Day will be observed. This date coincides with the adoption and proclamation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the United Nations General Assembly...
China’s Maritime Assertiveness and Repercussions
By: Sandip Kumar Mishra | Issue: Courtesy: IPCS | Date: 09 Dec , 2015
With Chinese President Xi Jinping’s aggressive posturing in regional politics, Beijing appears to have moved beyond its old doctrine of ‘hide-your-strength-bide-your-time’ and gradually...
NSA meeting in Bangkok: Setting stage for Modi visit to Pakistan?
By: Cmde C Uday Bhaskar (Retd.) | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Monitor | Date: 08 Dec , 2015
The unobtrusively arranged, below the radar meeting between the National Security Advisers (NSA) of India and Pakistan in Bangkok on Sunday (December 6) may be seen as a case of a belated but...
Why Mao attacked India in 1962
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Vol. 26.3 July - Sept 2011 | Date: 06 Dec , 2015
There is an angle of the 1962 Sino-Indian that conflict has been insufficiently studied. What were Beijing’s motivations to go to war? Who decided to inflict the worst possible humiliation on...
Pakistan’s Low-Yield Nuclear Weapons: The Inevitability of Instability
By: Varun Sahni | Issue: Courtesy: IPCS | Date: 05 Dec , 2015
Hatf IX (Nasr) is a Pakistani ballistic missile which can deliver a sub-kiloton nuclear warhead over a range of 60 km, or 37.3 miles. It is supposed to have entered service in 2013 and is...
Reforms in the People’s Liberation Army (PLA)
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Courtesy: http://claudearpi.blogspot.in/ | Date: 04 Dec , 2015
According to the new reforms recently announced by President Xi Jinping, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) should soon be out of business. Under the new rules, ‘PLA Inc’ will stop its song...
Tibet is passing through one of the most difficult times in her history
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Courtesy: http://claudearpi.blogspot.in/ | Date: 02 Dec , 2015
In India and Tibet Ancient Ties – Current Bonds (A pictorial exhibition on the relations between India and Tibet through the ages), I tried to depict the age-old relations between India and...
China’s Cult called Xi Jinping
By: Dr Monika Chansoria | Issue: Courtesy: IPCS | Date: 01 Dec , 2015
November 2015 marks three years since Chinese President Xi Jinping (习近平) took over the reins of power by assuming office of the Party Commission in November 2012. At that point, it was...
Nationalism for Unity
By: Brig K Kuldip Singh | Issue: Book Excerpts: Kurukshetra to Kargil | Date: 30 Nov , 2015
The Keystone The essence of nationalism is the nation’s security, which presupposes its unity. A widely accepted understanding of the national security reckons that, “A nation is secure to the...
Turkey downs a Russian bomber and stirs Syrian cauldron
By: Monish Gulati | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Monitor | Date: 28 Nov , 2015
Two Turkish F-16s shot down a Russian Su-24M Fencer fighter-bomber at 9:24 AM local time on 24 November after it purportedly crossed into the Turkish airspace and ignored 10 warnings in five...
PM Narendra Modi visit gives India a higher profile in ASEAN
By: Mahendra Ved | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Monitor | Date: 26 Nov , 2015
A new and powerful economic community is emerging in India’s extended neighborhood at a time when the world as a whole is facing economic uncertainties, combating the scourge of terrorism and is...
Letter to Maj Gen Sardeshpande from a Jaffna Citizen
By: Lt Gen SC Sardeshpande | Issue: Book Except: Assignment Jaffna | Date: 25 Nov , 2015
From: Dr SS Arulanandam Periyamaraddy Chavakachcheri To: Maj Gen Sardeshpande General Officer Commanding Palaly Dated: 5 May 1988 Enclosed is the photo-copy of ‘Eelam News’ published in ‘Junior...
A rare letter from the Dalai Lama to Jawaharlal Nehru
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Courtesy: http://claudearpi.blogspot.in/ | Date: 23 Nov , 2015
A very rare document, the translation of a letter sent by the Dalai Lama to the Prime Minister of India on March 26, 1959. The letter is written from Lhuntse Dzong in Southern Tibet where the...