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...
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...
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...
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)...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...