• It is no longer Pakistan seeking Chinese support for its adventurism as much as it is the other way around. India must prepare

    • July 20, 2020
    • Posted by: Lt Gen Syed Ata Hasnain (Retd)
    • Categories: ASEAN & ARF, China, Foreign Affairs, Military, Pakistan, Strategic Affairs
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    While India has long considered the potential of a two-front war with Pakistan and China, it was only in 2009 that a keynote address at a seminar in Delhi, by the then Army Chief General Deepak Kapoor, forced a serious re-evaluation. The debate regarding India’s capability to fight a war in which there is full collusion between China and Pakistan has generally remained inconclusive.

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  • Reviewing J-K in the backdrop of an active Ladakh border

    • July 6, 2020
    • Posted by: Lt Gen Syed Ata Hasnain (Retd)
    • Categories: Counter Insurgency, Military, Strategic Affairs
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    With all the public focus on the LAC in Ladakh, there has hardly been any analysis of the situation in J&K even as the Union Territory approaches the first anniversary of the landmark decisions taken on August 5 last year. The decisions themselves being too well known, any recall of these may be unnecessary.

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  • Reset Sino-Indian ties: A long road lies ahead

    • June 25, 2020
    • Posted by: Lt Gen Syed Ata Hasnain (Retd)
    • Categories: ASEAN & ARF, China, Foreign Affairs, Military, Strategic Affairs
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    The second meeting at Chushul-Moldo between Lt. Gen. Harinder Singh, India’s 14 Corps GOC, and his PLA counterpart on June 22 continued for over 11 hours, and resulted in only a short, crisp decision to disengage.

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