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Jaishankar in Moscow: Are India’s relations with the US-led West strained?
- January 6, 2024
- Posted by: admin
- Categories: India, West Asia
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It will be a fallacy to see Jaishankar’s visit through the prism of India’s relations with the US and other Western countries.
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How diminishing influence of US in West Asia is opening up spaces for Russia, China
- January 3, 2024
- Posted by: admin
- Categories: China, Russia, West Asia
The recent high-level interactions by President Putin have placed him in a favourable position in the region along with China
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Will West Asia Conflagarate ?
- December 18, 2023
- Posted by: admin
- Category: West Asia
Col Ajay Singh (R) and I had a wide ranging and informed discussion on the widening crisis in West Asia as a whole.
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Reviewing Iran’s Presidential Election and Its Geopolitical Effect
- June 24, 2021
- Posted by: Lt Gen Syed Ata Hasnain (Retd)
- Categories: Middle East, West Asia
Ever since 1979, when the Iranian Revolution hit the streets in Tehran and there emerged in Iran a regime unfriendly to the West and that is hell bent on creating a new niche in the geopolitical environment of the Middle East, we have had an unrelenting power game centred on Iran’s ambitions.
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Gautam Moorthy | An out of the box solution to end Israel, Palestine row
- May 28, 2021
- Posted by: Lt Gen Gautam Moorthy (Retd)
- Categories: Middle East, West Asia
The situation today is that the Palestinians remain hopeful of regaining the West Bank without Israeli settlements
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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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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 China-Iran link could be a Geopolitical Game-changer : The Stakes for India
- July 28, 2020
- Posted by: Lt Gen Syed Ata Hasnain (Retd)
- Categories: ASEAN & ARF, China, Foreign Affairs, Military, Strategic Affairs, West Asia
The Covid 19 pandemic has paralyzed the world and created geopolitical opportunities galore. In consequence pin pricks, pressure points and strategic messaging have all become the order of the day.
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Beijing’s Strategic Messaging shifts to West Asia
- July 21, 2020
- Posted by: Lt Gen Syed Ata Hasnain (Retd)
- Categories: ASEAN & ARF, China, Strategic Affairs, West Asia
All these years, many analysts wondered why China was so tentative about expanding business and strategic links with Iran in a bigger and more transparent way that would convey its clear disagreement with the US policy on Iran. The US re-imposed sanctions after it pulled out of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) in 2018, but some short-term concessions were available to nations such as India and China that obtained much of their energy needs from Iran.
