Unlearned lessons from the 1962 war
ahmed sabirBy Ashok K Mehta Defence Minister Arun Jaitley's statement in the Rajya Sabha regarding defence preparedness was generic but can be challenged on two counts: Operational readiness and learning lessons.…
Sikkim Stand-Off China and India Collide in the Himalayas
By Justin Raimondo India's ultra-nationalist government under Prime Minister Nahendra Modi is engaged in an aggressive face-off with China that could end in a large-scale military conflict. Although the strip…
Standoff with China prompts revamp of India’s regional policies
By M.K. Bhadrakumar The denouement of the dangerous India-China military standoff in Doklam near the Sikkim border is hard to predict. But on the diplomatic and geopolitical plane, one definite…
Time of the greatest danger is now!
A Serious situation developing between China and India By Bharat Karnad Acting defence minister Arun Jaitley said on 8 Aug, 2017 in Parliament that the country had learned the 1962…
Where Doklam traverses regional politics
By M K Bhadrakumar The regional setting in which the India-China standoff at Doklam is playing out can only be ignored at our risk. Most Indian pundits are training their…
Modi revisits Iran ties
By M K Bhadrakumar The decision by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to depute the minister of transport Nitin Gadkari to represent India at the inaugural ceremony of Iran's president Hassan…
ISIL in Afghanistan – A growing threat
ISIL's ever increasing presence in Afghanistan could provoke Iran and Russia to get involved By Massoumeh Torfeh After losing Mosul and vast territories in Iraq and Syria, the Islamic State…
Another Russia – US proxy war looms over Afghanistan
By Bennett Seftel As the Trump Administration struggles to develop a strategy in Afghanistan, Russia has surreptitiously inserted itself into the mix. In late July, reports once again surfaced that…
Time to end the lost Afghan war
By Eric Margolis Media reports claim President Donald Trump let loose on his generals behind closed doors, blasting them royally for their startling failures in Afghanistan, America's longest war. The…
The US went into Afghanistan after 9/11 for the following objectives
By Saeed Mailk As sole hegemon it HAD to flex its muscles. It could not take 911 lying down. It wanted to restart the "Turkmenistan pipeline." After the defeat and…