- 06 December, 2023
Geopolitics & National SecurityIndia China Border
The Yangtse Standoff : With or Against the Run of Play
One of the highlights of the ongoing FIFA World Cup in Qatar are some of the results against the run of play. A perfectly balanced game suddenly goes in favour…
By Lt Gen Syed Ata Hasnain (Retd)
Where is the Henderson-Brooks-Bhagat Report?
Sixty years ago, traumatic events took place on the Northern borders of India; undoubtedly, the Sino-Indian conflict in October/November 1962 is an episode which marked the Indian psyche. Though many…
By Claude Arpi
A New Narrative for 1962
During the coming weeks, via its media, China is going to reiterate Beijing’s narrative of the 1962 border conflict with India. Already Zhang Xiaokang, the daughter of Gen Zhang Guohua,…
By Claude Arpi
23rd Meeting of the Working Mechanism for Consultation & Coordination on India-China Border Affairs
The 23rd meeting of the Working Mechanism for Consultation & Coordination on India-China Border Affairs (WMCC) was held on 18 November 2021. The Indian delegation was led by Additional Secretary…
Decision Time Has Arrived For India
It was Regis Debray who wrote that "we are never contemporaneous with the present", and that the past intrudes and succeeds in diluting our understanding of the realities of the…
By Prof Madhav Das Nalapat
LAC : China’s Strategic Misadventure
China reinforcing her strategic misadventure along the India - China Line of Actual Control (LAC) passed a new ‘Land Border Law’ on 23 October 2021, effective 01 January 2022. The…
By Lt Gen Vinod Bhatia (Retd)
China’s New Border Law – For What?
The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) seems to be in turmoil. Constant changes have been taking place at the highest level, particularly with the generals posted on the border with India;…
By Claude Arpi
No cases of infiltration reported at Indo-China border this year: Defence Ministry
New Delhi [India], August 9 (ANI): No cases of infiltration have been reported at Indo-China border this year, informed the Ministry of Defence on Monday. The Ministry's response came as…
New cameras, sensors deployed by Indian forces to monitor Chinese activities along LAC
New Delhi [India], July 26 (ANI): Along with the help of satellites and drones, Indian security forces are also creating a network of surveillance cameras and sensors to keep a…
The Great Churn in the Indian Armed Forces
The unseemly squabble in the Indian armed forces on establishment of Theatre Commands has plainly indicated that there exists incongruence in consolidation and synergistic application of combat power. The diktat…
General Rawat visits forward areas along LAC in central sector in Himachal
New Delhi [India], June 29 (ANI): The Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), General Bipin Rawat visited the forward areas along the Line of Actual Control in the central sector in…
