Unlearned lessons from the 1962 war
ahmed sabirBy Ashok K Mehta Defence Minister Arun Jaitley's statement in the Rajya Sabha regarding defence preparedness was generic but can be challenged on two counts: Operational readiness and learning lessons.…
Sikkim Stand-Off China and India Collide in the Himalayas
By Justin Raimondo India's ultra-nationalist government under Prime Minister Nahendra Modi is engaged in an aggressive face-off with China that could end in a large-scale military conflict. Although the strip…
Standoff with China prompts revamp of India’s regional policies
By M.K. Bhadrakumar The denouement of the dangerous India-China military standoff in Doklam near the Sikkim border is hard to predict. But on the diplomatic and geopolitical plane, one definite…
Time of the greatest danger is now!
A Serious situation developing between China and India By Bharat Karnad Acting defence minister Arun Jaitley said on 8 Aug, 2017 in Parliament that the country had learned the 1962…
Where Doklam traverses regional politics
By M K Bhadrakumar The regional setting in which the India-China standoff at Doklam is playing out can only be ignored at our risk. Most Indian pundits are training their…
Modi revisits Iran ties
By M K Bhadrakumar The decision by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to depute the minister of transport Nitin Gadkari to represent India at the inaugural ceremony of Iran's president Hassan…
Five key pieces of Trump’s Afghanistan plan
What is going on in Afghanistan? By Jeremy Herb President Donald Trump outlined his plan for the 16-year US war in Afghanistan Monday evening, vowing that the US would find…
America and Russia – Back to Basics
However demonic, however destructive, however devious, however deserving of being strangled Russia is, the brute fact is that we cannot kill this bastard without committing suicide. By Graham Allison President…
Hillary Clinton and Le Pen are victims of sexism and gender discrimination
It is a fact that Hillary Clinton and Marine Le Pen lost their respective elections not because of Putin or Merkel, but the only reason behind their defeat was the ignorance…
Frustrated McCain unveils his own Afghanistan strategy
Frustrated by the lack of an Afghanistan war strategy from the White House, Sen. John McCain on Thursday unveiled his own plan for winning America's longest conflict. “We must face…