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Disruption in Military Affairs
- September 2, 2020
- Posted by: Lt Gen PR Shankar (Retd)
- Categories: ASEAN & ARF, China, Military, Pakistan, SAARC, Strategic Affairs
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Three months back I was approached to speak at the Army War College, Mhow, during the Doctrine and Strategy Seminar on Multi Domain Operations. In this time many things happened. I corelated the topic with the current international military and strategic events. I realised that the actual scope was wider since the concept is evolving.
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Is a Global Hot War in the Offing
- September 1, 2020
- Posted by: Lt Gen PR Kumar (Retd)
- Categories: ASEAN & ARF, China, Europe, Foreign Affairs, General Topics, Military, Rest of the World, SAARC, Uncategorized, USA, West Asia
While the underlying acrimony, historical baggage and differences gives rise to an adversarial/confrontational/volatile relationship/situation, the actual trigger which starts the shooting war could be a minor incident. The aptly named ‘Pig War’ in 1859 between the United States and Great Britain in Don Juan island, started over a slaughtered swine.
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Ladakh Standoff : India needs to enhance its deterrence reputation
- August 31, 2020
- Posted by: Lt Gen PR Kumar (Retd)
- Categories: ASEAN & ARF, China, Foreign Affairs, Military, SAARC, Strategic Affairs
Every Indian citizen, especially security and China watchers, would be able to rattle out the latest situation along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in East Ladakh given the plethora of inputs, barring from the government.
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DAP : Examination of the Strategic Partnership (SP) Model
- August 13, 2020
- Posted by: Lt Gen PR Shankar (Retd)
- Categories: Domestic Issues, Military, Strategic Affairs
The Indian Army is making incremental, but confused, progress in upgrading its depreciated artillery profile that has languished gravely since the import of Bofors howitzers in the late 1980s as per Rahul Bedi in Hindu in 2014. In 2020, the same Hindu reports that the Defence Ministry will introduce import embargo on 101 items.
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Political will and military power
- August 12, 2020
- Posted by: Lt Gen (Dr) Prakash Menon (Retd)
- Categories: ASEAN & ARF, China, Military, Strategic Affairs
Military history often knocks on contemporary doors. Galwan, Kongka La, and Pangong Tso that were areas of military contestations in 1962, with Depsang also thrown in, are emblematic of the present Sino-Indian border crisis. It was HG Wells who said, “If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.” India doesn’t seem to have learnt this lesson. In its signature style, China has used military power to grab control of unoccupied areas and called it as an act of self-defence.
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Why Corporatisation of Ordnance Board is a must
- August 11, 2020
- Posted by: Lt Gen PR Shankar (Retd)
- Categories: Domestic Issues, General Topics
On 16th May 2020 the Government announced the decision to corporatize OFB to improve its autonomy, accountability and efficiency. It evoked overwhelming response from the Armed Forces who felt that the step was overdue but suboptimal. Almost everyone wanted the OFB to be privatised on a PPP model. Simultaneously there were discordant notes from within OFB.
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Evolving into a Tank for High Altitude
- August 11, 2020
- Posted by: Lt Gen PR Shankar (Retd)
- Categories: Domestic Issues, Military, Strategic Affairs
The current Sino Indian standoff has highlighted the lack of a suitable tank for high altitudes.The tank is required not only for defending our territory but also for carrying out any offensive into China. Unless we pose a credible offensive threat to China, our territory will always be subject to salami slicing. Having a light tank in adequate numbers in Eastern Ladakh and Sikkim is mandatory.
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Unending Ladakh Story
- August 10, 2020
- Posted by: Brig Deepak Sinha (Retd)
- Categories: Domestic Issues, Military, Strategic Affairs
The Modi Govt is in a fix today, not because of the negligence of previous regimes but because of its own deliberate neglect of the military. We have failed to learn lessons
An interesting anecdote doing the rounds among military veterans’ groups on social media pertains to an incident just after the 1971 war.
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A Stunning Defence Reform – Atmanirbharta from Atmavishwas (Self Reliance from Self Confidence)
- August 9, 2020
- Posted by: Lt Gen Gautam Moorthy (Retd)
- Categories: Defence Production, Domestic Issues, General Topics, Military
Sunday, 09 Aug 2020 will go down as a red letter day in India’s history. While the world and India too remained largely hunkered down thanks to the ubiquitous Chinese virus (COVID-19),
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Spare a thought for the people of Yemen : World’s worst man-made Humanitarian Crisis
- August 7, 2020
- Posted by: Lt Gen PR Kumar (Retd)
- Categories: Strategic Affairs, USA
Yemen Overview[i]. Officially the Republic of Yemen (Arabic, romanized: al-Jumh?r?yah al-Yaman?yah, literally “Yemeni Republic”), is a country at the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula in Western Asia. It is the second-largest Arab sovereign state in the peninsula, occupying 527,970 sqkms.
