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WHO IS LEADING DELHI OUT OF THIS CRISIS?
- May 12, 2021
- Posted by: Lt Gen PR Shankar (Retd)
- Category: India
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Who is leading Delhi out of this crisis? The PM? The HM? The CM? The SC? The HC? The LG? Delhi, our national capital seems to be a rudderless boat adrift in a storm.
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WILL CHINA ESCALATE THE LADAKH SITUATION
- May 12, 2021
- Posted by: Lt Gen PR Shankar (Retd)
- Categories: China, India
WILL CHINA ESCALATE THE LADAKH SITUATION.I had a very long and interesting discussion on the current covid situation in a geopolitical context with Aadi Achint.
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Indian Leadership Vs Chinese Virus
- May 12, 2021
- Posted by: Lt Gen PR Shankar (Retd)
- Category: India
Who is winning the war between the Chinese virus and Indian leadership at present? Any guesses? To me it’s very clear.
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WHICH MASK DO YOU PREFER?
- May 12, 2021
- Posted by: Lt Gen PR Shankar (Retd)
- Category: India
I hear continuous wailing of sirens of ambulances taking patients stricken with the Chinese virus to hospitals. Are they banshees carting people to death or are they angels of mercy flying them to recovery?
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Seventh Fleet move a reminder that Quad must remain a group of equals, not a US-led posse
- April 14, 2021
- Posted by: Lt Gen (Dr) Prakash Menon (Retd)
- Categories: China, India, Indian Ocean Region
The US Navy’s Seventh Fleet statement of 7 April 2021, after the freedom of navigation operation off Maldives in India’s Exclusive Economic Zone or the EEZ, even if legally valid, and watered down later by the Pentagon Spokesman, was unwarranted and seems indifferent to the sensitive phase in India-US relations.
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Integrating unmanned platforms and enabling tech in India’s warfighting doctrine
- March 26, 2021
- Posted by: Maj Gen Birender Dhanoa (Retd)
- Category: India
India has the capacity, intellect, and research facilities — within and outside of government — to develop and field systems faster than ever before.
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Chinese Communist Party has goals. India needs to have its own, not just respond to aggression
- March 24, 2021
- Posted by: Lt Gen (Dr) Prakash Menon (Retd)
- Categories: China, India, Strategic Affairs
China is yet to respond to the Quad’s joint statement. But one thing is clear, India’s national security strategy must change.
There are glaring dissimilarities in India’s foreign policy stances towards China post the military disengagement in Doklam 2017 and the ongoing one in Ladakh. -
House defence panel must ask 4 key questions — from lower expenditure to pension bill
- February 24, 2021
- Posted by: Lt Gen (Dr) Prakash Menon (Retd)
- Categories: ASEAN & ARF, China, Military, Strategic Affairs
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Defence can bring much needed clarity on India’s national security that Nirmala Sitharaman’s Budget didn’t answer.
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Defence allocation: Shrinking budget, rising threats
- February 24, 2021
- Posted by: Lt Gen (Dr) Prakash Menon (Retd)
- Categories: ASEAN & ARF, China, Military, Strategic Affairs
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Indian Army. Credit: PTI Photo
The realities of the defence budget seem to be blowing in the political wind and, despite claims to the contrary, the allotment for 2021-22 could at best be described as ‘more of the same’. -
LAC Row: Strategic options, post-Ladakh
- February 24, 2021
- Posted by: Lt Gen (Dr) Prakash Menon (Retd)
- Categories: ASEAN & ARF, China, Military, Strategic Affairs
The disengagement process in Ladakh is hopefully the concluding scene of another military episode in India-China relations.
