Air Marshal Dhiraj Kukreja

Hail Xi!

  While India celebrated its annual festivals associated with Diwali, China concluded its twice-a-decade, seven-day festival, known as the National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), on Sunday, October 23, in Beijing. The CCP...

Flying into a Glorious Future

Comprehensive combat potential, emphasised by flexibility, quick response, and mobility, is a must-have for any nation. Aerospace power, with its ability to reach far distances, be they be within or outside the borders, fits...

200 Days of the Russian Impasse

  No matter how much one tries to avoid reading about the Russia-Ukraine ‘special operations’, the media, print and visual, has at least one news item on it, hence, my contribution to add to the...

Two Years after Galwan: China Must Realise Its Behaviour is Counter-productive

  In May 2020, amid the thick of the coronavirus-induced pandemic, when the world was still trying to understand the intricacies of the pandemic and plan a strategy to tackle it, the Indian Army (IA)...

Agnipath: Dousing the Fire

  Just two days after the announcement of the new recruitment policy for the three Services, Agnipath, protests have begun, without even trying to understand the nuances of the scheme, or the first recruitment being...

100 Days of Russia’s ‘Special Operations’ and Beyond – An Analysis

  It is more than 100 days into the special operations launched by Russia and the narrative changes as per the narrator! And, it is more than 50 days since the Russian forces withdrew from...

Securing the Final Frontier

  India has carved a place for itself not just in the emerging new world order, much to the angst and annoyance of many established world powers, but also occupies an enviable position in the...

Quad Revisited – An Update

  As I ‘download’ my thoughts for this piece, the Indian PM, along with other leaders of the Quad, namely, the President of USA, and the Prime Ministers of Australia and Japan, would have met...

India Maps New Order with Ingenuity

Prior to the end of the Cold War, societies were divided by ideological differences, such as the struggle between democracy and communism. In the last two decades or so, past paradigms became ineffective in...

Deciphering India’s Stand in the Russo-Ukraine War

  On February 24, 2022, after weeks of playing guessing games with the world’s imagination, and Ukraine’s speculations, Moscow let loose its firepower against Ukraine. The “he will – he wouldn’t” assumptions amongst the arm-chair...

Nuke Deal Talks Depend on the Stance of the US and Iran

  The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the nuclear deal between Iran and the P5+1 countries (Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China, with the USA joining in later), was signed in July 2015 after...

China will Continue to Remain What It is Now – An Enigma!

Air Marshal Dhiraj Kukreja’s book ‘China-An Enigma’ provides in-depth, unique and interesting insights into China’s history, its rise and why it continuously remains an enigma. A summary and excerpts from the book: The Peoples’ Republic...

USA – NATO – Russia: Battle of Wits

  If 2020-2021 were years when China and USA were in the news, whether for reasons right or wrong, the year 2022 started with attention being shifted from China, slowly and steadily, but USA remained...
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