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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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The ‘Thug’ Army meets ‘Made in India’ steel
- June 25, 2020
- Posted by: Lt Gen PR Shankar (Retd)
- Categories: ASEAN & ARF, China, Military, Strategic Affairs
China’s PLA is not a professional army. It is a uniformed group of thugs which serve the Chinese Communist Party. The premeditated ambush of the braves of 16 Bihar at the Galwan Valley last week was planned to make it appear like a reckless Indian Army action, “valiantly” defended by the innocent Chinese.
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India-China border clash : Is there a way forward ? (Part II of three-part series)
- June 23, 2020
- Posted by: Lt Gen PR Kumar (Retd)
- Categories: ASEAN & ARF, China, Foreign Affairs, Military, Strategic Affairs
In the first part of this three series article, I discussed the strong civilizational connect (recorded formal interaction dates to 2nd Century BC) between India and China which prevented any sort of confrontation let alone conflict, and India’s official position of the boundary between the two countries. The history, geography, geopolitics and strategy, economy, technology, military potential, comprehensive national power and most importantly individual personalities (leaders) have a direct bearing on the way forward.
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India-China dynamics in turbulent times : Civilisational ties and border dispute (Part I of three-part series)
- June 16, 2020
- Posted by: Lt Gen PR Kumar (Retd)
- Categories: ASEAN & ARF, China, Foreign Affairs, Military, Strategic Affairs
What does a big, unpopular, ‘different’ boy with very few friends do if he is suddenly picked on by most of the class? Admittedly he did something horrific bringing unimaginable misery to himself and the entire class, but ironically the other big boys had also done innumerable equally nasty things without being castigated.
Read more at: https://southasiamonitor.org/spotlight/india-china-dynamics-turbulent-times-civilisational-ties-and-border-dispute-part-i-three#.XukYJzMlkV8.whatsapp
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India’s Options to achieve ‘Chini Kam’ – A SWOT Analysis
- June 1, 2020
- Posted by: Lt Gen PR Shankar (Retd)
- Categories: ASEAN & ARF, China, Military, Strategic Affairs
China, while seeking global hegemony, must support military expansionism and an aging population, with a contracting economy, in a deglobalising environment of falling exports, withering manufacturing, collapsing BRI and weak internal consumption. It portends an authoritarian China rapidly reverting to revisionism. Simultaneously, the Pakistan Army will continue to own a failed and bankrupt state whose existential identity of “Not Being India” constantly reinforces revisionism.
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Human Capital for the Department of Military Affairs
- May 20, 2020
- Posted by: Lt Gen (Dr) Prakash Menon (Retd)
- Categories: Domestic Issues, General Topics, Military
The creation of the Department of Military Affairs (DMA) in the Ministry of Defence portends better civil-military cooperation. That India’s civil-military cooperation was in need of structural reform was never doubted. Yet, the implementation of such reform lacked political will, faced bureaucratic resistance, and was stymied by elements within the armed services.
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Is Indian Deterrence Effective Against Potential Aggressors
- July 5, 2019
- Posted by: Lt Gen PR Kumar (Retd)
- Categories: ASEAN & ARF, Foreign Affairs, Military, Strategic Affairs
The concept of deterrence is undergoing transformation in the emerging multi polar and multi nuclear world. The democratic world order and international institutions are being challenged, leading to a dynamic international security environment, where strategic balancing by even the global powers has become the norm. This has resulted in 24 X 7 Multi Domain Operations (MDO), where the military dimension is but one of the verticals albeit a decisive one. Applied effectively, deterrence discourages an adversary from pursuing an undesirable action. It works by changing the adversary’s calculation of costs, benefits and risks.
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Stand up against China
- April 29, 2018
- Posted by: Lt Gen (Dr) Prakash Menon (Retd)
- Categories: ASEAN & ARF, China, Military, Strategic Affairs
Some of India’s chickens of statecraft have come home to roost. India has embarked on a “reset of relations” with China and simultaneously seeks to “redefine ties” with the USA. The simultaneity is structurally imperative when it comes to India’s role in the context of great power tensions.
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Where Will India Store Indus Water Once It Stops The Supply
- October 2, 2016
- Posted by: Mr Manoj Mohanka
- Categories: Domestic Issues, Military, Strategic Affairs
I think everyone in India is making too much of a song and dance about our “surgical strike”. One can justify it as an emotional outburst as public mood was frayed and action was demanded from the government. It was also clear that the noises being made by India on the repudiation of the Indus Waters Treaty was only a bluster.
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Autonomy of States via Article 370 ‘Won’t Threaten ‘Idea of India’
- August 16, 2016
- Posted by: Mr Manoj Mohanka
- Categories: Domestic Issues, Military, Strategic Affairs
The single biggest grouse against India by the Kashmiris has been the dilution of Article 370 over the decades, i.e. the erosion of the State’s powers in relation to the Centre. The best way to ‘skin this cat’ is more autonomy for each and every state of India including Jammu and Kashmir – genuine autonomy in a truly federal India with no concentration of power in the Centre, as is unfortunately the case today.
