Articles By Prakash Nanda
Will F-16s follow President Biden to Ukraine?
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Courtesy: Uday India | Date: 16 Mar , 2023
While US President Joe Biden’s historic surprise visit to Ukraine on the eve of the first anniversary of the Russian invasion of that country and his fresh offer of $460 million of military to...
Tawang, Tibet and Taiwan
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Courtesy: Uday India | Date: 25 Dec , 2022
Unlike its aggressive strategic designs that resulted in the major clash with India in Ladakh’s Galwan valley in June 2020, the latest India-China skirmishes in Tawang on December 9 seems to...
DefExpo-2022
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Courtesy: Uday India | Date: 14 Oct , 2022
The Indian government expects the 12th edition of DefExpo, which is being held from the 18th to 22nd of October at Gandhinagar, Gujarat, to be “the largest ever’ since the inception of the...
Ominous Signals for Kashmir
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Courtesy: Uday India | Date: 09 Jul , 2021
What is Delhi cooking for Jammu and Kashmir? This question is being raised at many a place these days, following the all-party meeting that Prime Minister Narendra Modi hosted recently. This...
Eight Lessons of Galwan
By: Prakash Nanda | Date: 05 Jul , 2021
One year after the Galwan incident, it is worth analysing the lessons of this clearly avoidable tragedy in which 20 brave Indian soldiers were martyred but not before killing more than 40 Chinese...
Cracks in Indo-US Bonhomie
By: Prakash Nanda | Date: 24 Apr , 2021
It is nothing but hugely embarrassing that India and the USA have exchanged words, though only hours back their Navies were exercising side by side in what was the first edition of the La...
Modi’s Foreign Policy Moments
By: Prakash Nanda | Date: 15 Apr , 2021
In June 2017, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi happened to be the first foreign head of the government whom the then US President Donald Trump hosted in the White House. On March 12, 2021, Modi...
Protecting India’s Air Power
By: Prakash Nanda | Date: 04 Feb , 2021
With Bengaluru staging one of Asia’s largest air shows this month, in which international defence and aerospace companies are going to raise the sales pitch, pursuing multi-billion rupees...
Challenges Before Theatre Commands
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Courtesy: Uday India | Date: 23 Jan , 2021
Will the year 2021 see the realisation of the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Bipin Rawat’s proposed road¬map for the restructuring of the Indian Armed Forces into five distinct...
An improbable India-China War
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Courtesy: Uday India | Date: 25 Nov , 2020
Armed forces of India and China have been facing one another eyeball- to- eyeball in a standoff in Eastern Ladakh since May. Both are increasing their troops-strength with sophisticated weapons,...
Skilling Gaps in Defence Production
By: Prakash Nanda | Date: 28 Sep , 2020
In accordance with its “Atmanirbhar Bharat” policy,the Government on August 10 announced a ban on import of 101 weapons, platforms and equipment. Later, none other than Prime Minister...
Time for an American base in an Indian island
By: Prakash Nanda | Date: 14 Sep , 2020
If anything, the just concluded visit of Defence Minister Rajnath Singh to Russian capital Moscow for attending the meet of the defence ministers of the member countries of the Shanghai...
Justice for the Forces
By: Prakash Nanda | Date: 20 Jul , 2019
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman does not seem to have done justice to the country’s defence forces and their preparedness, which, ironically, she was looking after as the Defence Minister...
How to deal with Imran
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 Sep , 2018
In cricket legend Imran Khan Pakistan has a new Prime Minister. He apparently is peeved with our Prime Minister Narendra Modi. He has accused Modi of being “arrogant” and “negative”. And...
The Rafale Saga
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Courtesy: Uday India | Date: 03 Sep , 2018
The Modi government’s decision to purchase Rafale fighter jets from France continues to be shrouded in controversy. There are now allegations that the deal is marked by overpricing and crony...
India and the United States: A Delicate Balance
By: Prakash Nanda | Date: 17 Jul , 2018
These are the bad days for the Indo-US relations. Some of the recent decisions by the Donald Trump Administration have complicated matters for India. The bad health of the relationship is not...
Should India work with the United States to stabilise Afghanistan?
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 Oct , 2017
It is a rare coincidence that on October 24 soon after Afghan President Ashraf Ghani concluded his “one-day working visit” to Indian capital, the United States Secretary of State Rex...
The Issue of Rohingyas
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 Sep , 2017
The opposition parties and the habitual critics of the present dispensation have now made the presence of about 40000 Rohingyas in India a political issue. With the usual and unthinking support...
India’s Doklam gains
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 31 Aug , 2017
Now that 73-day long standoff between the troops of India and China at the Doklam tri-junction (India, China and Bhutan) has come to an end, a dispassionate analysis of the episode is...
Doklam Standoff: A case of Chinese duplicity
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Courtesy: Uday India | Date: 19 Jul , 2017
Consistency has never been a virtue for the Communist rulers of China in settling their border disputes with the neigbours. They have used different principles for different countries. And this...