Harsh V. Pant, Author at raksha-anirveda.com

Diplomacy and Resilience: Betting on India is a Good Wager

Harsh V. Pant - May 27, 2021

At the India-EU summit in early May, French President Emmanuel Macron declared, “India does not need to listen to lectures from anyone about vaccine supplies. India has exported a lot for humanity to many countries.”...

Joe Biden Rolls the Dice in Afghanistan

Harsh V. Pant - April 25, 2021

* There is no real incentive for the Taliban to concede on any issue given that Washington's best bargaining chip—its military prowess—is now off the table. * India will have to play an important role. Barack...

A Quad’s Rise in the Indo-Pacific That’s Rich with Irony for Beijing

Harsh V. Pant - March 17, 2021

It is in the nature of contemporary diplomacy, conducted under the arc lights of 24/7 media obsessed with the ‘breaking news’ phenomenon, that almost every foreign policy engagement is considered ‘historic’. Yet, if any...

New Delhi’s New Regional Calculus

Harsh V. Pant - March 10, 2021

Last month, New Delhi’s regional policy took another interesting turn with the beginning of disengagement along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) and the announcement of ceasefire along the Line of Control (LoC). After...

Did India Just Win at the Line of Actual Control?

Harsh V. Pant - March 3, 2021

On February 10, after nine rounds of high-level military talks, India and China began partially disengaging from what was the bloodiest (if not the longest) crisis on the Sino-Indian border in the last 50...

Biden’s Foreign Policy Lacks Strategic Clarity

Harsh V. Pant - February 13, 2021

Last week, the newly elected president of the United States (US), Joe Biden, delivered his first foreign policy speech, with the aim of resetting America’s foreign policy agenda after four years of Donald Trump’s...

India’s Defence Budgeting Strives to Chart a New Course

Harsh V. Pant - February 7, 2021

Even as Finance Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman, unveiled India’s Union Budget for the financial year (FY) 2021-2022 in Parliament on February 1, there was no statement on the allocation of the defence budget, the absence...

India’s Vaccine Diplomacy

Harsh V. Pant - January 31, 2021

If the COVID-19 pandemic has taught us anything, it is that global responses are needed to confront diseases that can spread around the world with stunning speed. It is no wonder, then, that the...

Disruptive Technologies in the Indian Military Matrix

Harsh V. Pant - August 31, 2020

In a timely intervention, Indian Army chief General M. M. Naravane encouraged the nation’s armed forces “to pay adequate emphasis on the available disruptive technologies that have dual use and are being driven by...

India’s Malabar Dilemma

Harsh V. Pant - August 19, 2020

Speculations are rife about India possibly inviting Australia for the next Malabar naval exercise—which COVID-19 has caused to be moved to 2021. If true, this would represent a break from the past and signal...