• Demand for fact-finding grossly premature

    • July 10, 2020
    • Posted by: Lt Gen PR Shankar (Retd)
    • Categories: Military, Strategic Affairs
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    144 veterans have addressed a joint statement to the President, PM, RM, CDS and Chiefs of Services drawing attention to the failure in the political, civil, and military establishments, especially in intelligence acquisition in the ongoing Sino-Indian military situation in eastern Ladakh. They have demanded, that a ‘fact-finding body’ be constituted to go into various issues raised by them.

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  • China’s Strategic Myopia

    • July 9, 2020
    • Posted by: Lt Gen PR Shankar (Retd)
    • Categories: ASEAN & ARF, China, Strategic Affairs
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    The Sino Indian military pause is part of a geostrategic continuum. Some domestic and international experts opine that India is cornered and in a pickle. They are as myopic as the PRC planners. Bottom line. It has been China’s choice to come in uninvited. it is India’s choice to let it go back.

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  • Reviewing J-K in the backdrop of an active Ladakh border

    • July 6, 2020
    • Posted by: Lt Gen Syed Ata Hasnain (Retd)
    • Categories: Counter Insurgency, Military, Strategic Affairs
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    With all the public focus on the LAC in Ladakh, there has hardly been any analysis of the situation in J&K even as the Union Territory approaches the first anniversary of the landmark decisions taken on August 5 last year. The decisions themselves being too well known, any recall of these may be unnecessary.

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  • Sino-Pak Nexus: Collusivity and Beyond

    • July 3, 2020
    • Posted by: Lt Gen PR Shankar (Retd)
    • Categories: ASEAN & ARF, China, Pakistan, Strategic Affairs
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    Editor’s Note

    Pakistan Army makes hay as long as the sun shines. Over and above its bid for a 20 per cent pay hike, it’s expanding business interests at a hitherto unforeseen scale. Now they are partners in funding the construction of DiamerBhasha Dam project in Gilgit-Baltistan along with a Chinese company. Are there any options left for Pakistan beyond the dark abyss or the unfathomable dungeon. The author gives his assessment of the future Pakistan that we have to contend with.

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  • India must prepare for a multi-domain war

    • July 3, 2020
    • Posted by: Lt Gen PR Kumar (Retd)
    • Categories: ASEAN & ARF, Military, Strategic Affairs
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    China’s confrontation with India is not all about the boundary issue, but a political act to offset its present challenges, and demonstrate its rising comprehensive national power (CNP). The Communist Party of China (CPC) leadership that increasingly relies on nationalism for its legitimacy will not find it easy to make the compromises necessary for a boundary settlement.

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  • Satyameva Jayate (Truth alone prevails)

    • July 3, 2020
    • Posted by: Lt Gen PR Shankar (Retd)
    • Categories: China, Military, Strategic Affairs
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    My thoughts are with Col Santosh Babu and our soldiers who sacrificed themselves for us in Galwan. Their bravery will be an example and inspiration for future generations of Indians.
    They have given their today for our tomorrow.

    My heart goes to their families and near and dear ones. My salutes to them.

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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
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    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.

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  • India Needs to have ‘Chini Kam’

    • June 30, 2020
    • Posted by: Lt Gen PR Shankar (Retd)
    • Categories: ASEAN & ARF, Foreign Affairs, Strategic Affairs
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    Profound myopic vision consistent with its turbulent history has led China to squander a strategic opportunity to achieve global greatness when the Wuhan virus broke. If only they were honest about their “Peaceful Rise” rather than being treacherous, they would have been a superpower by now. So anything long-term about Chinese is a carefully cultivated myth. Their invincibility was brutally exposed by our gallant Biharis, Punabis, Sikhs, Thambis and others in Galwan Valley. The action of our boys shows that a united India can ensure “Chini Kam”.

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  • Galwan: China’s Information War

    • June 29, 2020
    • Posted by: Lt Gen Vinod Bhatia (Retd)
    • Categories: ASEAN & ARF, China, Military, Strategic Affairs
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    In an unprecedented disregard for the prevalent peace and tranquility along the India-China Line of Actual Control (LAC), PLA troops transgressed the LAC at three locations in eastern Ladakh, forcing the Indian Army to prevent them from any ingress leading to faceoff at Galwan and Pangang Tso. Again in a first since 20 October 1975, 20 Indian soldiers made the supreme sacrifice at Galwan when implementing an agreement arrived at by top military commanders on 6 June 2020.

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  • India-China standoff : Need to be prepared for two-and-half front war (Part III of three-part series)

    • June 26, 2020
    • Posted by: Lt Gen PR Kumar (Retd)
    • Categories: ASEAN & ARF, China, Foreign Affairs, Military, Strategic Affairs
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    “The art of war is of vital importance to the State. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence it is a subject of inquiry which can on no account be neglected,” Sun Tzu, The Art of War.

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