Spotlights
Paris Assault: India needs to review threat assessment of IS
By: Monish Gulati | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Monitor | Date: 19 Nov , 2015
In near-simultaneous attacks on November 13, assailants armed with assault rifles and wearing explosive belts targeted six sites in Paris killing more than 120 people. The serial attacks have...
China is ready
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Courtesy: http://claudearpi.blogspot.in/ | Date: 17 Nov , 2015
According to The China Daily, many border areas in China have deployed “an integrated frontier monitoring system consisting of advanced radars and unmanned aircraft”. Mao Weichen, a...
Pakistan Occupied Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan
By: Col Jaibans Singh | Issue: Book Excerpt: Jammu and Kashmir: The Tide Turns | Date: 15 Nov , 2015
“And that is my definition of democracy, the right to be in a minority and not be suppressed.” —Lee Harvey Oswald After more than six decades of independence, there are a million plus...
Aftermath of the 1962 War
By: Ashok Kapur | Issue: Book Excerpts: India's Strategic Problems | Date: 13 Nov , 2015
India’s humiliating defeat was a game changer in three significant ways. 1. It revealed the serious flaws in Nehru’s approach to China and defence, and it revealed the institutional defects...
Slice of Outer Space for the Indian Military
By: Maj Gen AK Chadha | Issue: Vol. 30.1 Jan-Mar 2015 | Date: 11 Nov , 2015
India and China commenced their respective journey into space piggy back on the Soviet Union about six decades ago. But within a decade, China broke off from the Soviets and commenced her solo...
Gandhi, the Man of Peace: Who Won the Ultimate War
By: Brig K Kuldip Singh | Issue: Book Excerpts: Kurukshetra to Kargil | Date: 07 Nov , 2015
Introduction The picture of the Indian military mind will remain incomplete without acknowledging the nation’s gratitude to the greatest warrior in its contemporary history, Mohandas Karamchand...
India slips on Chinese oil in Nepal
By: Cdr Kapil Narula | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Monitor | Date: 06 Nov , 2015
Nepal, a landlocked country, lies between India and the Tibetan Autonomous Region of China and has strong cultural and political links with India. Both countries share a “special relationship”...
Myth of Economic Disparity in Kashmir
By: Col (Dr) Tej Kumar Tikoo (Retd.) | Issue: Book Excerpt: Kashmir: Its Aborigines and their Exodus | Date: 04 Nov , 2015
Recently, on a TV news channel while covering an event on Kashmir, reporting from Srinagar the reporter said that ‘Though Kashmiri Pandits have left the Valley, they had cornered most of the jobs...
Fan Changlong is coming to India
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Courtesy: www.niticentral.com | Date: 03 Nov , 2015
During the month of November, India will receive two important visitors from China; both are members of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party. …the PLA spokesman...
Statement by the Defence Minister regarding NEFA enquiry, New Delhi Sep 2, 1963
By: Lt Col Gurdip Singh Kler | Issue: Book Excerpt: Unsung Battles of 1962 | Date: 02 Nov , 2015
Appendix ‘N’ (Refer to Page 471) The Defence Minister Shri Y.B. Chavan, made the following statement in the Lok Sabha: 1. Sir, I wish to inform the House of the results of the enquiry to...
Centres of Gravity of Indian Strategic Actions
By: Ashok Kapur | Issue: Book Excerpts: India's Strategic Problems | Date: 31 Oct , 2015
By expanding its strategic footprint in Asia, and through this avenue in the world, Indian practitioners could dilute the ill-effects of past policies of China and America vis-à-vis India and...
Black days in Kashmir: Facts versus Fiction
By: Col Jaibans Singh | Issue: Courtesy: www.defenceinfo.com | Date: 30 Oct , 2015
The separatists of Jammu and Kashmir have declared October, 27 as a “Black Day.” On this day in 1947, the Indian Army landed in Srinagar airport and, against great odds, saved the people of...
Women in the Indian Army
By: Col MN Gopakumar | Issue: Vol 25.4 Oct-Dec 2010 | Date: 29 Oct , 2015
The Profession of Arms The soldier is not a civilian with a different job; the former is held to higher standards than most outside the Army can ever comprehend. “An army exists to advance by...
Big Changes in the People’s Liberation Army?
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Courtesy: http://claudearpi.blogspot.in/ | Date: 27 Oct , 2015
A few weeks ago, The South China Morning Post had reported the possibility of sweeping reforms in the People’s Liberation Army (PLA). One of these changes could be the phasing out of...
Time running out for Afghanistan
By: Lt Gen Kamal Davar (Retd) | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Monitor | Date: 24 Oct , 2015
War ravaged Afghanistan, the “graveyard of empires”, continues to descend into growing political instability and recurrent fratricidal conflict. That the overall security situation in the...
Letter by Maharaja Hari Singh to Governor General of India, Lord Mountbatten
By: Danvir Singh | Issue: Book Excerpt: Kashmir's Death Trap | Date: 22 Oct , 2015
Appendix – A Dated: 26 October 1947 My dear Lord Mountbatten, I have to inform your Excellency that a grave emergency has arisen in my State and request immediate assistance of your...
Counter-Terrorism: Points for Action by the International Community
By: B Raman | Issue: Book Excerpt: TERRORISM-Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow | Date: 21 Oct , 2015
(Text of a paper submitted by the author in July, 2004, to a High-Level panel on “Threats, Challenges and Change” chaired by Mr Anand Panyarachun, former Prime Minister of Thailand set up by...
Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s Japan visit
By: Air Commodore Ramesh S Benegal | Issue: Book Excerpt: Burma to Japan with Azad Hind | Date: 16 Oct , 2015
One day we heard the good news that Netaji was arriving in Tokyo and that he would be visiting us. Well before he arrived, we started to spruce up. The school was given a fresh coat of paint, our...
De-militarize versus De-terrorize
By: Shiban Khaibri | Issue: Courtesy: www.dailyexcelsior.com | Date: 14 Oct , 2015
What Mr. Jinnah had dreamt about what Pakistan would prove after its formation had started proving contrary to his wishes even during his life time but after his demise, his dream has proved to...
Why the Madhesi people revolted in Nepal
By: Sohan Prasad Sha | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Monitor | Date: 08 Oct , 2015
The past two decades in Nepal has witnessed a series of revolts, unrest and uprising of the people. Ever since the peace process started, with a popular 12-point agreement in 2005 between Maoists...