‘Two and a Half Men’and ‘Two and a Half Front’ on November 5, 2017What is Indian Army Chief Gen. Bipin Rawat’s concept of ‘Two & A Half Front War’? Are Indian Armed Forces in a position to dominate the Red Dragon? If Cold Start Doctrine is for Pakistan, what is India’s strategy for China? If Indian Integrated Battle Groups (IBGs) enter Pakistan and its Mountain Strike Corps parachute […]
Start a war to make America great again on October 31, 2017Why is US President Donald Trump interested in foregoing the North Korean issue to put his internal and national problems to the background? Why is he escalating the North Korean Missile Crisis? Can Trump really attack and destroy or at least dismantle North Korean nukes using the US military’s doctrine of Shock and Awe — […]
Pakistan’s eastern and western fronts on October 25, 2017Ostensibly, there exists an unofficial ‘Tripartite Pact’ among India, Iran and Afghanistan Was Pakistan Military’s ‘Security Paradigm Shift’ temporary or permanent? Does the real threat to the sovereign status of Pakistan still emerge from the East? What makes Pakistan believe that its Western borders are safe due to adjacent ‘Muslim’ countries ie Afghanistan and Iran? […]
India can’t afford America’s friendship on October 19, 2017On July 3, 2017, Foreign Policy published an article entitled, ‘Pakistan can’t afford China’s Friendship’ which was authored by an American scholar — Christine Fair. She made a number of arguments, some of which were completely out of context of the developing situation. Her argument made five key assertions; Pakistan is walking into the Chinese […]
Critical appraisal of PM’s speech on October 17, 2017The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA)is a forum where ‘peoples of the world’ sit together despite having hostile relations and discuss, explain, formulate and solve the feuds and disagreements between nations. This annual session of the UNGA provides a unique opportunity to foreign ministers and chief executives (Presidents, Prime Ministers, Chancellors and Kings) of member […]
The global resurgence of the right on October 11, 2017Is Trump going to survive the media and judicial assault regarding the Travel Ban and the US-Mexico Border Wall? Will Modi succeed in transforming secular India into an India overshadowed by Hindutva? And how will Brexit will affect European politics and the fate of the European Union? Although, these questions sound a bit far-fetched, their […]
Russias resurgence what will be Putins next move? on October 6, 2017Will Putin strike again or will he rest and let Trump “Make America Great Again”? Who could have imagined the creation of Abkhazia and South Ossetia? Who knew that Putin will take away Crimea from Ukraine? No one thought that Putin alone will halt the US-led invasion of Syria and circumvented the removal of Assad […]
Love cows, kill humans on September 26, 2017Secular India is undergoing a sinister change. There has been a rise in attacks on the country’s Muslim population. On June 27, a Muslim dairy farmer was beaten by a mob and had his house set on fire. On May 26 two Muslim meat traders were attacked by a vigilante squad in Malegaon, Maharashtra by […]
The U.S. Foreign Policy: Germany 1933-1941 on September 17, 2017Many scholars till this day believe that Germany’s declaration of war against the U.S. proved to be the last nail in the coffin for Germans and turned the tide of World War II. In1952, Hitler’s inventor of Blitzkrieg, General Heinz Guderian wrote in his memoir Panzer Leader, that German soldiers wondered that why Hitler declared […]
The Trump Doctrine on September 17, 2017On July 21, 2017 a magazine, Foreign Policy published an article by the title ‘There is No Trump Doctrine, and There Will Never Be One’. It might be correct that Trump has not been successful in forming a grand strategy but it is pertinent to mention here that President Trump has been in a severe […]