Articles By Dr Subhash Kapila

Pakistan’s Olive Branch to India March 2021 Perceptionaly under China’s...
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Date: 09 Apr , 2021
Pakistan’s extending an olive branch to India repeated twice since January 2021 by Pakistan Army Chief has analytically not arisen from some divine revelation but seems to be under China’s...

Afghanistan Abandonment 2021 by US to Taliban will be Geopolitical Suicide
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 19 Mar , 2021
“Geopolitical Suicide” would be the end-result of United States withdrawal of US Military Forces from Afghanistan by May01 2021, robbing United States of an irreplaceable vital “Strategic...

China’s 2021 Imperatives for Military Climb-down against India in Eastern...
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 26 Feb , 2021
China ‘s military climb-down in February 2021 against India in Eastern Ladakh after eight months of intense military confrontation and violent clashes has not been prompted by some ‘Divine...

Afghanistan 2021 Strategic Paradox for United States President Joe Biden
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 18 Feb , 2021
Afghanistan’s contextual geopolitical and security environment is a paradoxical challenge for new US President Hoe Biden which he inherits as a ‘legacy challenge’ from two decades of...

Myanmar’s Geostrategic Significance Demands United States Patronisation...
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 14 Feb , 2021
Myanmar’s geostrategic significance in 2021 in relation to the fast menacing China Threat to Indo Pacific security endows it with significant “Strategic Asset Value” for the United...

China Flings Provocative Strategic Gauntlet at New US President Joe Biden 2021
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Date: 29 Jan , 2021
China’s President Xi Jinping unmindful of the geopolitical forces stacked against China in 2021has in his characteristic propensity for aggressive brinkmanship has gambled to throw multiple...

US President Biden’s South Asia Foreign Policy Minefield
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 25 Jan , 2021
South Asia in 2021 has emerged as a geopolitical minefield where the strategic landscape has twisted on its head reducing United States to be challenged by China & Pakistan, put together, which...

NATO Military Alliance Europe Highlights Strategic Concerns on Emerging...
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Date: 18 Jan , 2021
The “China Threat” is no longer a security challenge confined to India, Japan and Indo Pacific nations but now palpably perceived as a global threat- in –the- making impacting the NATO...

US-China Policies 2021: Incoming President Joe Biden cannot ignore ‘China...
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Date: 12 Jan , 2021
United States China-Policies 2021 under incoming President Joe Biden are under global cynosure more than in earlier decades not because United States has changed but because China since 2013 has...

China’s Six Decades of Unremitting Offensive Military Adventurism Calls...
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 07 Jan , 2021
China defying global geopolitical dynamics heavily weighted against China and in favour of India has been engaged since May 2020 in unprovoked military escalation and armed clashes in Eastern...

Russia is No Longer a Strategic Asset for India’s Foreign...
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 01 Jan , 2021
Perceptionaly, in 2020, analysing by contemporary trends of Russia positioned in a virtual military alliance with China, it loses its worth to Indian foreign policy as a ‘Strategic Asset’....

India as Natural Ally of the West- Reflected in Indian Foreign Policy...
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 24 Dec , 2020
India stood firmly embedded as ‘Natural Ally of the West” in 2020 as future historians of India’s foreign policy would record in the years to come assessing from the pattern, trend and...

ASEAN Geopolitical Centrality in South East Asia 2020 Hinges on Dispensing...
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 13 Nov , 2020
“Perceptions” generated by visible foreign policy attitudinal inclinations count more than “Intentions” in foreign policy dynamics of Nations or Regional Organisations, ASEAN representing...
US-India Strategic Partnership Touches Himalayan Heights in 2020
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 02 Nov , 2020
United States-India Strategic Partnership has touched ‘Himalayan Heights’ , both literally and figuratively in 2020 commencing with its upgradation to a “Comprehensive Global Strategic...

Afghanistan and India 2020 Emerging Perspectives
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Date: 24 Oct , 2020
Afghanistan in 2020 is at critical crossroads arising from uncertainties in wake of US-Taliban Doha Accords impelled by US political expediencies. However, one glimmering certainty is India’s...

Russia and China’s Contradictory Preferences in US Presidential Elections 2020
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Date: 17 Oct , 2020
Russia and China otherwise knit together into a compulsive ‘Strategic Nexus’ due reasons of geopolitical expediencies are intriguingly positioned in contradictory preferences of their...

Pakistan’s Political Dynamics 2020 Continue as Fragile and Fragmentary
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 15 Oct , 2020
Pakistan’s internal dynamics when analysed in 2020 as Pakistan edges towards 75 years of its Independence present a dismal and depressing scene where Pakistan’s polity continues as ‘Fragile...

Turkey’s Perceptional Geopolitical Downslide under President Erdogan
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 01 Oct , 2020
Geopolitics focuses on political power and international relations and in the case of Turkey under President Erdogan there is a perceptible geopolitical decline chiefly arising from...

China and India in an Unprecedented ‘State of War’ in September 2020
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 25 Sep , 2020
China and India are in an unprecedented ‘State of War’ in September 2020 going by the military operational situation of massed Chinese Army and Indian Army Divisions confrontation on...

India-China Military Confrontation September 2020: NO De-escalation Foreseen
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 18 Sep , 2020
The India-China Joint Declaration announced in Moscow by the Chinese and Indian Foreign Ministers on September 10,2020 on the side-lines of the SCO Foreign Ministers Meet for speedy de-escalation...