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Small Mercies in Melbourne

Lt Gen Prakash Katoch - February 14, 2022

The fourth Quad foreign ministers’ meeting attended by Australia, India, Japan and the US was held on February 11, 2022, in Melbourne. The main theme, as earlier, focused on a ‘Free and Open Indo-Pacific’,...

Civil Society Impacting India’s Security Environment

Major Gen (Dr) Rajan Kochhar - February 7, 2022

In recent times, we have been hearing a lot about how civil society is being manipulated as a new frontier for the so-called grey zone or hybrid warfare. The issue has far-reaching ramifications as...

Will Xi Or Will Xi Not?

Air Marshal Dhiraj Kukreja - February 7, 2022

Elections in any country cause turbulence and turmoil in the political domain, be it USA, India or even a ‘democracy’ like China. The schedule for the 2022 elections in China, of the new Central...

Torch of Galwan Shame at Beijing Olympics

Lt Gen Prakash Katoch - February 7, 2022

Since Xi Jinping became the president of China on March 14, 2013, he has been following the footsteps of Adolf Hitler, be it the iron control, barbarity, genocide, establishing Auschwitz-style concentration camps in Xinjiang...

Will Russia ever invade Ukraine?

Shankar Kumar - February 6, 2022

US President Joe Biden and European countries’ leaders fear Russia may invade Ukraine. Some fear that this invasion may take place most probably after the Beijing Winter Olympic Games are over. To counter it,...

Rethinking UAE’s Security in the wake of Houthi Attacks

Dr. Lakshmi Priya - February 6, 2022

Ranking highest among the regional countries in the Global Soft Power Index 2021, the UAE has come a long way from being a US$37 billion GDP in 1985 to a US$450 billion economy in...

Shifting Sands in the Neighbourhood

Pranay K Shome - February 5, 2022

Change is the very law of nature. This completely fits in the context of the current Pakistani approach towards its shifting priorities. The first ever National Security Policy that the Imran Khan government has released recently...

Ukraine-Russia Stand Off and India’s Dilemma

Maj Gen C P Singh - February 3, 2022

India took a balanced stance at the UN Security Council on January 31, 2022, when the Ukraine crisis discussion was put to vote. India abstained from voting in UNSC demonstrating neutral position. That reflects...

Defence Budget 2022 – Hits and Misses

Lt Gen A B Shivane - February 2, 2022

Defence and Development are two sides of the same coin and a trajectory in the growth of a nation. Both these are capital heavy investments with competing demands and thus require a fine balance....

China’s Debt-trap Policy: Sri Lanka Stares at Uncertain Future

Shankar Kumar - January 25, 2022

On July 7, 2021, while participating in the centenary celebration of the Communist Party of China, Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa praised Beijing lavishly for “successfully eradicating” poverty of 900 million people in...

125th Jayanti of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose

Lt Gen Prakash Katoch - January 23, 2022

The Republic Day celebrations from this year are to start from January 23 instead of January 24 to include the birth anniversary of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, as directed by the Government. A statue...

Remembering the Assassination that Shook the World

Dr Eyal Pinko - January 22, 2022

Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, who was in charge of relations between Hamas and Iran, arrived in the United Arab Emirates in January 2010. Mabhouh used to get there from time to time, where he felt comfortable....

Revisiting Siachen Demilitarization

Lt Gen Prakash Katoch - January 21, 2022

Interacting with media during his annual press conference on January 12, General MM Naravane, Chief of Army Staff said, “We are not averse to demilitarization of the Siachen glacier, but a precondition to that...

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