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#CSA Distinguished Lecture: Military Diplomacy, International Relations and Geo-politics 09-16-2023
- October 4, 2023
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- Categories: India, Military, Strategic Affairs
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Strategic Affairs Distinguished Lecture: “Military Diplomacy, International Relations and Geo-politics” (16 Sep 2023)
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India’s Complex Strategic Environment
- February 1, 2022
- Posted by: Lt Gen PR Shankar (Retd)
- Categories: India, Strategic Affairs
This is a talk given at the ONE DAY SECURITY DIALOGUE – 2022 jointly organised by the Chennai Centre for China Studies & National Maritime Foundation on 29 Jan 2022.
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Fleshing out the LoC ceasefire
- March 25, 2021
- Posted by: Lt Gen Syed Ata Hasnain (Retd)
- Categories: Pakistan, Strategic Affairs
What can be done to ensure that the ceasefire agreement with Pakistan works without hiccups and progressively ushers in a peace process?
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Peace in the subcontinent: Is Pakistan serious?
- March 25, 2021
- Posted by: Lt Gen Syed Ata Hasnain (Retd)
- Categories: Pakistan, Strategic Affairs
The last four attempts at rapprochement were derailed due to actions initiated from Pak. What has changed in Islamabad that we can foresee a different course ahead?
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India dives into Quad waters
- March 25, 2021
- Posted by: Lt Gen (Dr) Prakash Menon (Retd)
- Categories: IOR, Strategic Affairs
Several strands of strategic vectors may have been generated from the geostrategic moves signified by the first ever summit, albeit virtual, of the Quad leaders, Joe Biden, Narendra Modi, Yoshide Suga and Scott Morrison on March 12, 2020. In a first for the Quad, a joint statement was released that serves as a declaration broadly conveying the goals and areas of focus of the group. China is not mentioned and that silence is deafening.
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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. -
Opinion: Our four nations are committed to a free, open, secure and prosperous Indo-Pacific region
- March 24, 2021
- Posted by: Lt Gen (Dr) Prakash Menon (Retd)
- Category: Strategic Affairs
Joe Biden is president of the United States. Narendra Modi is prime minister of India.
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For India’s national security, time for civil and military synergy
- February 24, 2021
- Posted by: Lt Gen PR Kumar (Retd)
- Category: Strategic Affairs
“War is a continuation of politics by other means,” Carl Von Clausewitz, Prussian general and military theorist. Let us start by unequivocally stating that it is nations that go to war. The armed forces are one of the pivotal constituents of comprehensive national power (CNP) in a multi-polar, multi-domain international security environment, where nations are in 24X7 persistent engagement of cooperation,
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Facing a long hot summer
- February 24, 2021
- Posted by: Brig Deepak Sinha (Retd)
- Category: Strategic Affairs
In a few short months, we are in for what is bound to be one long hot summer, global warming notwithstanding. Our enemies are at our gates and the prospect of conflict well within the realms of possibility. After all, the PLA must be keen to get on with its unfinished business, though what that might be, neither our military nor civil leadership have quite figured out!
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Disengage, De-Escalate but Prepare for the Next
- February 24, 2021
- Posted by: Lt Gen Syed Ata Hasnain (Retd)
- Category: Strategic Affairs
Disengagement between the Indian Army and the PLA in Ladakh was expected but it came earlier than what may have been anticipated. After nine rounds of military led talks and commencement of an immediate pull back of heavier elements a resolution of issues between the two countries still remains unlikely;
