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Peace in Afghanistan: Taliban’s Intransigence and a Multi-National Endeavour
- April 14, 2021
- Posted by: Lt Gen PR Kumar (Retd)
- Category: SAARC
No CommentsPeace eludes Afghanistan, notwithstanding consecutive attempts by the US Presidents to find a trail that could lead to it. President Trump attempted a new approach to ultimately reach an agreement that was worked out between the US and the Taliban, alone. However, the road to peace is yet a long length to traverse.
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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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Need Bravery not Bravado
- July 31, 2020
- Posted by: Brig Deepak Sinha (Retd)
- Categories: ASEAN & ARF, China, Europe, Foreign Affairs, Rest of the World, SAARC, Strategic Affairs, USA, West Asia
In the preface to his insightful work, Generalship: Its Disease and Cure, British military tactician Major-General JFC Fuller quotes an apocryphal tale told to him by a member of the French General Staff. “At the battle of Waterloo, Colonel Clement, an infantry commander, fought with bravery; but unfortunately, was shot through the head.
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QUAD 2.0 or TIANXIA
- July 29, 2020
- Posted by: Lt Gen PR Shankar (Retd)
- Categories: ASEAN & ARF, China, Foreign Affairs, Rest of the World, SAARC, Strategic Affairs, USA, West Asia
Gordon Chang says ‘Xi, thinks everyone should acknowledge not only Chinese hegemony but also China’s rule,… China’s ruler has both the right and responsibility to rule Tianxia, or all under Heaven’! Does the world want to be in this Chinese hell? If not, it needs the QUAD. It is a global imperative.
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The Weak Heart of CPEC – Neglected Beyond Repair?
- July 2, 2020
- Posted by: Lt Gen PR Shankar (Retd)
- Categories: ASEAN & ARF, China, Pakistan, SAARC, Strategic Affairs
Editor’s Note
We have already published a fairly large number of articles by the author on the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) in BharatShakti. in. This article focuses primarily on the cascading effects of the CPEC on Baluchistan. Baluchistan, apparently, will barely have marginal gains while contributing the most among the Pakistani provinces for CPEC. The protests of the locals are already audible and are likely to rise in decibel levels as the project progresses. -
Post-COVID, Is China Only Country with Enough Reserves to Lend ?
- May 7, 2020
- Posted by: Mr Manoj Mohanka
- Categories: ASEAN & ARF, China, Current Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Rest of the World, SAARC, USA, West Asia
On 3 April 1948, three years after the WWII ended, President Truman signed the Economic Recovery Act of 1948. It came to be known as the Marshall Plan, named after Secretary of State George Marshall, who, in 1947, proposed that the United States provide economic assistance to restore the economic infrastructure of post-war Europe.
