- 20 November, 2024
Foreign Affairs, Geopolitics & National SecurityMilitary Affairs & Strategy
India-China Border Build-up: Pragmatically Speaking!
A recent news-item has proclaimed that India has redirected at least 50,000 additional troops to its border with China, in a historic shift towards offensive military posture. Over the past…
Future Indian Forces With Indigenous Character
Future Indian Forces With Indigenous Character Lt Gen KJ Singh (Retd) PM’s Modi's statement at Kevadia, while addressing Combined Commanders conference has generated considerable interest, in strategic circles. The address…
When the Hunters Became the Hunted: The Galwan Valour
When the Hunters Became the Hunted: The Galwan Valour On the fateful night of 15 June 2020, the infamous Galwan Valley reverberated with 16 Bihar regiment’s war cry ‘Bajrang Bali…
Himalayan Blunder 2020: This Time It’s China
Himalayan Blunder 2020: This Time It’s China One year after a course of related strategic events is perhaps just the right time to take stock and analyze those aspects of…
Climate Change as a Threat to India’s Military Strategies
Climate Change as a Threat to India’s Military Strategies As the climate crisis worsens across the world and in India (more specifically), it will have significant implications for the country’s…
Discerning China’s Game Plan
Discerning China's Game Plan “Let China sleep, for when she wakes, she will shake the world” - Napoleon Bonaparte Exactly a year ago, China in a surprise move occupied Finger…
Armed Forces as Disaster Responder
Armed Forces as Disaster Responder The disaster management matrix is based on immediacy, measured in terms of response time and quantum of effort to be applied, dictated by scale…
Western Front-Mechanised Operations
Western Front-Mechanised Operations "Battles are won by slaughter and manoeuvre. The greater the general, the more he contributes in manoeuvre, the less he demands in slaughter." – Winston S. Churchill …
India-China Cyber Asymmetry: Act Now
India-China Cyber Asymmetry: Act Now This is a regular working day in Mumbai, India. The lines outside the ATMs and Bank tellers are getting serpentine, and people are losing their…
The Implications of Invisible Warfare: Hugely Enabled by Emerging Technologies
Speaking as a guest lecturer to a large group of serving army officers just recently I went to some extent to explain the various events and milestones of the past…
Ceasefire on Line of Control – An Analysis by Kanwal Sibal
The fog created around the ceasefire agreement announced by the DGMOs of India and Pakistan on February 25 has obscured how it should be understood. Lobbies in India that favour…
Ceasefire and India-Pakistan Relations: Overcome the Past to Give Substance to the Future
With the strategic community’s focus and attention towards the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in recent months, little attention was paid towards the potential for change at the western border…
