- 22 November, 2024
Foreign Affairs, Geopolitics & National SecurityGeostrategy
Rising Chinese Air Power in the Maritime Domain – Is it Time to Reset Maritime Strategy?
As the world’s focus is riveted to the rapidly spiraling crisis in the Middle East which threatens to escalate with Iran’s retaliatory missile strike following Israel’s extensive air strikes and…
By Air Marshal (Dr) Diptendu Choudhury (Retd) PVSM, AVSM, VM, VSM
Insurgencies in Myanmar and Their Impact on the Security Situation in Northeast India
The ongoing insurgencies in Myanmar, particularly following the military coup in February 2021, significantly impact the security landscape in Northeast India. This region, characterised by a long and porous border…
By Lt Gen Shokin Chauhan (Retd)
MILITARY DIPLOMACY AND INDIA’s PROJECTION OF HARD POWER
The recently concluded G 20 summit in Delhi could be largely concluded to a diplomatic victory for India as the much elusive consensus emerged after extreme prolonged negotiations culminating in…
By Maj Gen (Dr) Rajan Kochhar (Retd)
Searching for Congruity: Indo-US Defence Cooperation
Let me start on a personal note. In 2008, I led a Brigade to participate in the US-India Yudh Abhyas exercise in Hawaii. In the first formal meeting with the…
By Maj Gen Neeraj Bali, SM (Retd)
Cold War 2.0 : India – An Inescapable Bet For The USA
Backdrop India-U.S. "Comprehensive Global Strategic Partnership" has become one of the most significant partnerships in the 21st Century in light of the ongoing ‘Cold War 2.0’ between the US and…
By Maj Gen (Dr) S B Asthana (Retd)
The Chinese Intransience During Foreign Ministers’ Meet At Goa SCO Summit
Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit in September 2022 at Samarkand, Uzbekistan resulted in China accepting withdrawal from Gorga-Hot Spring Area (PP-15) on the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in the…
By Maj Gen Ashok Kumar (Retd)
‘Eroding Basis Of Bilateral Relations’ – Chinese Policy Is Institutional!
On 27 April 2023, on the sidelines of the SCO Defence Ministers Meeting, the Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh in as clear and candid manner as can be told the…
By Lt Gen (Dr) Rakesh Sharma
Strategic Communication And Media: Powerful Instruments To Shape Future War Outcomes
The prosecution of war in recent times has undergone a paradigm change. Conflicts today are fought over various domains in cognitive as well as noncognitive dimensions. We also see an…
By Maj Gen (Dr) Rajan Kochhar (Retd)
‘Defence of Japan 2022’: Moment of Reckoning
Japan's annual ‘Defence of Japan’ (DOJ) 2022 was released in July. It appeared after the assassination of former PM Abe, a leading light of Japan's enhanced defence capabilities. The ruling…
By Gurjit Singh
Lessons From Ukraine
Omar Khayyam wrote: Yes, the first morning of creation wrote what the last dawn of reckoning shall read. However, in the present case the tragedy is unfolding sans a script.…
By K P Fabian
Checkmating Chinese BRI Through INSTC
In December 2021, Russian President Putin visited in India among a lot of din, which was followed by a largely unnoticed visit of Chinese State Councilor and Minister of National…
By Levina
Perceptions in India-Nepal-China Relations
Nepal is sandwiched between the two giant economic and politically powerful nations – India and China. Perceptions play a more decisive role than the reality of Nepal’s ties with India…
By Debnath Shaw
