Opinion

BRAHMOS: New Versions Are Faster, Stealthier, Deadlier

Rakesh Krishnan Simha -
  BRAHMOS has been described as the “Brahmastra for the Indian armed forces”. The supersonic cruise missile is not quite in the same league as the mighty weapon of Lord Brahma, but it is certainly...

The Catch 22 in Afghanistan

Lt Gen Retd P.C. Katoch -
  There is much in the news about US including India in the multilateral dialogue on Afghanistan while Russia kept India out of it. This rhetoric will heighten with the dialogue on peaceful settlement in...

Minesweeping Capability

Lt Gen Retd P.C. Katoch -
News reports of December 2020 indicate that the Indian Navy is looking at leasing an unspecified number of mine counter measure vessels (MCMVs) in addition to other equipment to fill critical gaps. For example,...

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

Harsh V. Pant -
  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...

China’s Water Bombs

Lt Gen Retd P.C. Katoch -
  After shunning disengagement beyond first phase on both banks of Pangong Tso in Eastern Ladakh, China has fired the next shot at India; China’s National People’s Congress (NPC) has cleared the construction of a...

The Quad Summit: Squaring the Circle

Amb Anil Trigunayat -
  On 12th March 2021, history was indeed made when the four leaders of the so-called QUAD (Quadrilateral Security Dialogue) comprising Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India, PM Scott Morrison of Australia and newly elected...

Strategic Outcome of Biden’s Indo-Pacific Agenda

Shibdas Bhattacharjee -
  Joe Biden’s victory in the last US Presidential election; a bitter one in the democratic history of America was looked rather with a negative approach by a section not only in the United States...

The Great Game in the Himalayan Kingdom of Nepal

Pranay K Shome -
  Nepal has been facing internal political turbulence for the last six months. Ever since the incumbent Premier KP Sharma Oli decided to dissolve Parliament and hold snap elections in April, since then a lot...

New Delhi’s New Regional Calculus

Harsh V. Pant -
  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...

Mission BrahMos: How India Got the World’s Most Powerful Cruise Missile

Rakesh Krishnan Simha -
  The history of arms development in India is littered with the debris of numerous stalled projects. The Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) project was 30 years late; the jet combat trainer has been shot down...

India-China Disengagement Saga – Managing Chinese Aggression in a New Way

Arpan A Chakravarty -
  Recently, Beijing and New Delhi agreed that both - Chinese and Indian troops at the southern and northern banks of the Pangong Tso Lake should start “synchronised and organised disengagement”. A breakthrough coming after...

High Technology and India-Japan Strategic Cooperation

Dr Titli Basu -
  The power and politics of technology, and its impact on geopolitics and national security, have become more pronounced with the intensifying Sino-US strategic contestation. Beijing’s Made in China 2025 and China Standards 2035 strategies...

Did India Just Win at the Line of Actual Control?

Harsh V. Pant -
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...
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