Geopolitics
Confronting the Dragon: Assertiveness Required
By: Maj Gen Dhruv C Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Oct , 2011
Chinese actions over the last few years reflect an increasing assertiveness bordering on domination. While the relationship between India and China could be considered stable at the strategic...
The Arab Spring: opening a pandora’s box?
By: Anand K Verma | Issue: Vol. 26.3 July - Sept 2011 | Date: 02 Oct , 2011
The so called Arab spring represents a massive popular movement, not seen or predicted in the Arab world ever since the Suez sponsored Nasserite upheaval. It is as significant as the falling of...
Pakistan military’s Swat offensive
By: Col Rajinder Singh | Issue: Vol 24.3 Jul-Sep 2009 | Date: 01 Oct , 2011
Most people and even some military minds do not appreciate the difference between fighting a conventional war and an unconventional war. The former is against a known enemy with well-defined...
Indian built Zaranj-Delaram Highway under Taliban Control
By: VK Shashikumar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Oct , 2011
The Zaranj-Delaram highway in Afghanistan built by India and handed over to the Afghan government on January 22, 2009 is now under Taliban control. Within two years of the commissioning of this...
Unification of China?
By: Maj Gen Sheru Thapliyal, PhD | Issue: Vol. 26.3 July - Sept 2011 | Date: 28 Sep , 2011
China’s economic growth, growing diplomatic leverage, and improvements in the PLA’s military capabilities, contrasted with Taiwan’s modest defence efforts, have the effect of shifting the...
US-Pakistan Tensions: China’s Cautious Stance
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 Sep , 2011
The Chinese media have started informing the Chinese people of the tensions in Pakistan’s ties with the US without any editorial comment so far.There have been no comments from the spokesperson...
Beijing Irked by Myanmar Decision to Suspend Dam Construction in Kachin State
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 Sep , 2011
The Government of Myanmar announced on September 30,2011, the suspension of its plans to build, with Chinese assistance, a massive dam on the Irrawaddy River in the Northern Kachin State. The...
South China Sea: India should avoid rushing in where even US exercises caution
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Sep , 2011
China has reacted — moderately through a spokesperson of its Foreign Office and somewhat virulently through the Party-controlled “Global Times” — to reports that India has been...
Pakistan: A Convoluted Script
By: Wilson John | Issue: Vol 22.4 Oct-Dec 2007 | Date: 14 Sep , 2011
When the time comes for writing an epitaph for Pakistan’s President-General Pervez Musharraf, two critical blunders committed by him in 2007 would be mentioned without fail. First would be the...
Pakistan: Testing of Tactical Nuclear Weapons
By: Cdr Abhijit Singh | Issue: Vol. 26.3 July - Sept 2011 | Date: 12 Sep , 2011
Pakistan’s recent tests of its Tactical Nuclear Missiles suggest a lowering of the threshold for nuclear conflict. More portentous is the underlying assumption of Tactical Nuclear Missiles...
Rabbani’s Assassination: A wake-up call for India
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Sep , 2011
The assassination on September 20,2011, of Burhanuddin Rabbani, a Tajik leader of Afghanistan, is of strategic significance to India. Rabbaniwas the President of Afghanistan in the 1990s when...
US frets & fumes against Pakistan, but finds its options limited
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Sep , 2011
The past few days have seen the US fretting and fuming against Pakistan for its use of the Haqqani network to make the US forces bleed in Afghanistan reach an unprecedented new high. This has...
Pakistan: A Troubled Legacy and an Uncertain Future – II
By: Lt Gen Kamal Davar (Retd) | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 06 Sep , 2011
Relations with the United States Pakistan’s relations since the early 1950s with its mentor, the United States, has been a roller-coaster ride. Pakistan has been kept afloat all these years by...
Pakistan: A Troubled Legacy and an Uncertain Future – I
By: Lt Gen Kamal Davar (Retd) | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 05 Sep , 2011
It is the seventh-largest nation, with the sixth-largest armed forces, in the world and an alarmingly growing nuclear arsenal. Yet, Pakistan stands at the edge of an abyss and the crossroads of...
Sino-India Relations
By: Anil K Singh | Issue: Vol 22.1 Jan - Mar 2007 | Date: 04 Sep , 2011
The visit of the Chinese President Hu Jintao to India (20-23 November, 2006) has opened new vistas of concretisation of relations between New Delhi and Beijing, with emphasis on augmentation in...
Focus on Chinese role in Gilgit- Baltistan and Sino-Pak Maritime Cooperation
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Sep , 2011
Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari has been in Urumqi, the capital of the Chinese-controlled Xinjiang province, with a high-power ministerial and official delegation since August 30,2011. He...
General Kayani and Future of Pakistan – II
By: Bhashyam Kasturi | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 27 Aug , 2011
The Army and Counter-Terrorism Pakistan’s counterterrorism strategy in Afghanistan is rife with inherent contradictions, caught between an inclination to fight militant forces and yet having...
General Kayani and Future of Pakistan – I
By: Bhashyam Kasturi | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 26 Aug , 2011
Recent events in Pakistan, including the special forces assault on the Abbottabad compound in which Osama bin Laden was hiding and living, the attack of PNS Mehran in Karachi and many more have...
The Hina factor
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Jul , 2011
External Affairs Minister S M Krishna says that he is “satisfied” at the progress achieved during the India-Pakistan dialogue on July 27 at New Delhi. According to him, his talks with the...
Fresh Violence in Xinjiang as Expo Draws Near
By: B Raman | Date: 26 Jul , 2011
The Chinese Government is organising what has been called the 1st China-Eurasia Expo in Urumqi, the capital of the Chinese-Controlled Xinjiang province, from September 1 to 5, 2011.The...