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India-China Border Tensions : Standoff in Eastern Ladakh
- September 3, 2020
- Posted by: Lt Col Manoj K Channan (Retd)
- Categories: ASEAN & ARF, China, Military, Strategic Affairs
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The Indian Think Tanks are probably discussing the need for a `face-saving ‘for the Chinese to go back to the April 2020 deployment. The Communist Party is ruthless, the Western Theatre Commander who shot to fame overnight as Xi Jinping’s delivery man, may find himself facing the firing squad.
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Pangong Lake Standoff : China faces a resolute Indian response
- September 3, 2020
- Posted by: Lt Gen Vinod Bhatia (Retd)
- Categories: ASEAN & ARF, China, Military, Strategic Affairs
On 29 Aug when a six-hour-long Brigade Commander level Flag meeting was ongoing, China in a surprise move tried to occupy operationally important heights on the South Bank of Pangong Tso.
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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
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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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),
