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Healing part of Army’s professional outreach
- January 17, 2022
- Posted by: admin
- Category: India
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The sterling performance of the Army aviators and doctors has created undefined confidence among all ranks. The doctors have routinely pushed the envelope. The medical staff often goes beyond its brief in giving treatment and carrying out exceptional surgeries under field conditions that have resulted in saving lives. Their timely assistance has benefited even the civilian population in border areas.
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Pakistan’s Establishment Versus Dissenters: UK Begins Historical Trial
- January 17, 2022
- Posted by: admin
- Category: Pakistan
The trial in London is going to be watched with some trepidation from Islamabad, & huge hope by overseas Pakistanis.
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India-China Talks & Trade – Xi’s Party School Speech – Informatization Plan – China & P5 on Nukes – Wang Yi in Maldives & SL – EU, Lithuania & China – The Kazakhstan Situation
- January 17, 2022
- Posted by: admin
- Categories: China, India
I’d like to begin by wishing you all a very happy new year. As promised, we’ve been thinking about ways to revamp the newsletter to be able to bring together more voices and reflect the work done under Takshashila’s Indo-Pacific Studies Programme.
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Review the charter of CDS and DMA. Theatre command reform must not fail
- January 17, 2022
- Posted by: admin
- Category: India
In identifying areas of indigenisation, there is a need to strike the right balance between maintaining operational readiness and allowing time to promote indigenisation.
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Fear is the key to rule minds, or is it?
- January 17, 2022
- Posted by: admin
- Category: India
Today’s politicians exploit every opportunity to use fear for recruiting volunteers to their own personal causes without realising the flipside
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Here’s why the P5 joint statement on ‘Preventing Nuclear War’ makes all the right noises
- January 12, 2022
- Posted by: Lt Gen (Dr) Prakash Menon (Retd)
- Categories: China, USA
While we can’t trust nuclear weapons to maintain peace, believing in human rationality is the greater danger.
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Pakistan Armed Forces’ Art Of ‘Institutionalising’ Corruption – OpEd
- January 12, 2022
- Posted by: admin
- Category: Pakistan
“… Which country’s army operates housing schemes? The army’s job is to protect the country’s borders; not to participate in commercial activities. — Chief Justice of Pakistan Mian Saqib Nisar, 2019
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The Transatlantic Alliance Looks Up
- January 12, 2022
- Posted by: admin
- Category: Europe
With the arrival of 2022, Germany took over the presidency of the G7. It is a new experience for the ‘traffic light’ three party coalition of Germany which has an SDP chancellor and Green Foreign Minister.
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AFSPA debate: What could be a possible solution?
- January 12, 2022
- Posted by: Lt Gen Syed Ata Hasnain (Retd)
- Category: India
We need to restore confidence on both sides and ensure an atmosphere of reasonable operational freedom without harming people, whom the military also treats as its centre of gravity.
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India-China Talks Tomorrow to Focus on Establishing Confidence Ahead of Summers in Eastern Ladakh
- January 12, 2022
- Posted by: admin
- Categories: China, India, Ladakh
Different confidence building measures are likely to be discussed in the meeting between Indian and Chinese military commanders prior to the onset of summers in eastern Ladakh, when the snow melts making troops movement faster and easier.
