Opinion

Border Tensions Continue as Country Focuses on Self Reliance in Defence

  New Delhi: Even as the government focused on boosting indigenization in the Defence Sector in keeping with the slogan “Atmanirbhar Bharat,” border tensions continued to take centre stage along the Line of Actual Control...

Hindus And Hindutva: Deliberate Confusion By the Uninformed!

  In simple and straight terms, Hindutva should mean “of Hindus”. I believe it so. But some ill- informed Congressmen like Salman Khurshid, P Chidambaram and Rahul Gandhi are deliberately linking it to terrorism and...

Why Nagaland CM Neiphiu Rio Howls For Repealing AFSPA

The Nagaland Assembly has demanded the repeal of AFSPA from the state and elsewhere in the northeast and an apology from the “appropriate authority” for the Army operation that led to the death of...

Putin’s Visit Was Short But Significant For Both India And Russia

  On December 6, India and Russia held an annual summit in New Delhi. Russian President Vladimir Putin gave a strong message through this short but significant visit that India is a priority. The visit was...

Wars of the Future: Reduced Physical Contact of Soldiers!

“….To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill….“ Sun Tzu, ancient Chinese Military thinker     Technology and revolutions in...

Repealing AFSPA

The media, especially the ‘paid’ variety is ecstatic over the issue of Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSP) which comes up whenever civilian casualties are involved in counter-insurgency operations. The Union Home Minister has...

Russia’s Defining Moment in the Indo-Pak War 1971

India and Russia have had historic ties with each other since almost seven decades now. It was the visit of Prime Minister Nehru to Moscow in the year 1955 which set the tone for...

Himalayan Blunder

  According to a Chinese proverb two tigers cannot stay on a single mountain. This seems to be absolutely fitting with the current Chinese foreign policy. China under Xi Jinping has shed its image of...

Iran and US: Will the Twain Merge in JCPOA?

  The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) was considered a huge success for all the signatories. The nuclear deal was signed between Iran and “P5+1” nations, namely UK, France, Germany, Russia, China and the...

Emperor Xi Jinping: Of China Or The World

  The sixth plenum of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC aka CCP) ended in mid-November after a 4-day session. There were no surprises in the resolution passed by the...

The 4G Warfare Debate

If the title of this article had said just ‘4G Debate’, readers may be excused if they ignored it thinking it about spectrum auction scams related to underhand dealing no matter which government is...

Self-Reliance in Defence Sector: Is it Ready for Sprint Run?

"If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.” ― Napoleon Bonaparte These words indeed hold true for India which is now focusing on becoming self-reliant or what Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been repeatedly...

India-China Standoff: Will It Ever End

  China has the uncanny quality to continue to remain in the news, if not in international news, then, at least in the Indian news. Of late, news about China in the Indian media is...
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