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AFGHANISTAN: REVIEW OF THE SITUATION AS ON AUGUST 24, 2021; FINALLY IT IS ALL ABOUT THE ECONOMY
- August 26, 2021
- Posted by: Lt Gen PR Kumar (Retd)
- Category: India
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From the Side-lines. Ever been to be an entertainment park and taken the most thrilling roller-coaster ride.
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QUAD Plus: China Intimidates the World Using Bangladesh
- June 24, 2021
- Posted by: Lt Gen PR Kumar (Retd)
- Category: IOR
China views the Quad as an essentially anti-Chinese congregation of four countries that can decisively contest its ambitions in the Indian Ocean Region.
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Palestine: A Forgotten Chimera
- April 23, 2021
- Posted by: Lt Gen PR Kumar (Retd)
- Category: Middle East
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Afghanistan: What does the future portend?
- April 16, 2021
- Posted by: Lt Gen PR Kumar (Retd)
- Categories: Afghanistan, Strategic Issues
Oblivious Precepts
Before we analyse the future portends for Afghanistan, let me spell out some oblivious precepts, which have a bearing on the likely prognosis.
* War/confrontation is seen as an exception, an extreme and an aberration in international affairs; the paradox is that it is the invention of peace which is the artificial edifice. -
Peace in Afghanistan: Taliban’s Intransigence and a Multi-National Endeavour
- April 14, 2021
- Posted by: Lt Gen PR Kumar (Retd)
- Category: SAARC
Peace eludes Afghanistan, notwithstanding consecutive attempts by the US Presidents to find a trail that could lead to it. President Trump attempted a new approach to ultimately reach an agreement that was worked out between the US and the Taliban, alone. However, the road to peace is yet a long length to traverse.
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For India’s national security, time for civil and military synergy
- February 24, 2021
- Posted by: Lt Gen PR Kumar (Retd)
- Category: Strategic Affairs
“War is a continuation of politics by other means,” Carl Von Clausewitz, Prussian general and military theorist. Let us start by unequivocally stating that it is nations that go to war. The armed forces are one of the pivotal constituents of comprehensive national power (CNP) in a multi-polar, multi-domain international security environment, where nations are in 24X7 persistent engagement of cooperation,
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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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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.
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Part 2 of Whither US Domination Post Covid
- August 7, 2020
- Posted by: Lt Gen PR Kumar (Retd)
- Categories: Strategic Affairs, USA
General[i]. In Part I, we examined the indicators which suggested that USA is in declining mode which is irreversible, and only the pace is uncertain. Majority who hold this view, take as a given that the US share of global economic output has been decreasing for last decade and that she has either already lost her status as the world’s largest economy to China or is fated to lose it within the next ten to 15 years.
