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DEATH OF IRANIAN PRESIDENT EBRAHIM RAISI: DOES IT CHANGE ANY DYNAMICS?
- July 19, 2024
- Posted by: Lt Gen Syed Ata Hasnain (Retd)
- Category: Iran
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For many it was surprising to see the amount of interest
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Successful Lok Sabha polling augurs well for Kashmir, now prepare for Assembly elections
- July 18, 2024
- Posted by: Lt Gen Syed Ata Hasnain (Retd)
- Categories: India, Jammu & Kashmir
Having achieved peaceful elections in the first round
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Lessons from Kargil, a quarter century later
- July 18, 2024
- Posted by: Lt Gen Syed Ata Hasnain (Retd)
- Categories: India, Kargil
On the 25th anniversary of the commencement of Operation Vijay
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Syed Ata Hasnain | 1 yr of Ukraine war: No victor, no vanquished…
- March 13, 2023
- Posted by: Lt Gen Syed Ata Hasnain (Retd)
- Category: Ukraine
Options are being discussed but except for a determination to continue the war, not much appears emerging.
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Geopolitics beyond the mega deal
- March 13, 2023
- Posted by: Lt Gen Syed Ata Hasnain (Retd)
- Categories: China, India, Neighbouring countries
The just-concluded 470 aircraft deal signed by Tata’s Air India,
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The Ukraine war and the prospects in the making
- October 11, 2022
- Posted by: Lt Gen Syed Ata Hasnain (Retd)
- Category: Ukraine
By the end of August 2022 six months had elapsed without any decisive signals of victory or defeat on the battlefield in the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war. There was nothing unusual about this.
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NATO’s Madrid Summit and the Potential Expansion to Include Finland and Sweden
- July 12, 2022
- Posted by: Lt Gen Syed Ata Hasnain (Retd)
- Categories: Afghanistan, Europe, Iraq, NATO, Russia
With war in Eastern Europe, and one involving Russia, could a NATO summit be far behind. Ever since 1991 when the Soviet Union finally broke up and NATO rejoiced in victory there hasn’t been an occasion as serious as the one being currently encountered in Europe.
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Ukraine: Reflections on termination of conflict
- June 15, 2022
- Posted by: Lt Gen Syed Ata Hasnain (Retd)
- Category: Uncategorized
A swift conflict initiation characterised the war in Ukraine, which started on February 24, 2022. The perception of conflict termination involving the end state of the hostilities, however, is hardly being spoken about.
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Pakistan’s Proxy War In J&K: Joining The Dots
- June 8, 2022
- Posted by: Lt Gen Syed Ata Hasnain (Retd)
- Categories: India, Jammu & Kashmir
Islamabad merrily uses UN Resolutions and calls for their implementation but never agrees to the first provision—the withdrawal of all its troops before the next steps.
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Indo-Pacific: The Quad Summit Returns Focus to the World’s Biggest Potential War Theatre
- May 27, 2022
- Posted by: Lt Gen Syed Ata Hasnain (Retd)
- Category: India
How much the world is nearing a catastrophic confrontation and how intimidated China feels about the response to its coercive aggression in the Indo Pacific, was made evident by the fact that even as the just concluded summit of the Quad was ending in the Japanese capital Tokyo, two warplanes each from China and Russia, flew over the Sea of Japan towards the East China Sea.
