Month: December 2019
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Slaying The Dragon: Unrestricted Warfare
https://bharatshakti.in/slaying-the-dragon-unrestricted-warfare/ Image Courtesy: NDTV July 24, 2017; By: Lt Gen P R Shankar (Retired); 4 Print Email Editor’s Note The brash Chinese posturing in the South China Sea and Dokalam near the Tri Junction of China, Bhutan and India is a cause for concern for the countries in the region. In fact, Southeast Asian countries are awaiting the…
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What Does The M 777 Ultra-Light Howitzer Mean To Us?
https://bharatshakti.in/what-does-the-m-777-ultra-light-howitzer-mean-to-us/ Image Courtesy: BAE Systems August 16, 2017; By: Lt Gen P R Shankar (Retired); 3 Print Email Editor’s Note It’s been a long journey since the Bofors scam of 1980s to the day we ultimately signed a contract to purchase 145 Ultra Light 155 mm Howitzers from the Americans via the Foreign Military Sales FMS) route. The…
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The Doklam Stand Off – Some Lessons
Image Courtesy: Swarajya https://bharatshakti.in/the-doklam-stand-off-some-lessons/ August 29, 2017; By: Lt Gen P R Shankar (Retired); 1 Print Email Editor’s Note The stand-off at Sikkim is into its third month now with no signs of abating. Both countries continue to glare at each other with China also ratcheting up a media war to cower India that it considers as its…
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The Tale Of Two Corridors Beyond Gwadar & Chabahar
Image Courtesy: World News Report https://bharatshakti.in/the-tale-of-two-corridors-beyond-gwadar-chabahar/ September 06, 2017; By: Lt Gen PR Shankar (Retired); 1 Print Email Editor’s Note The China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) terminates at Gwadar Port. Its value for China is indeed strategic. However, what it would do to Pakistan’s economy and sovereignty is debatable. Next to Gwader, less than a 100 km away,…
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The Grand Global Corridors & China Pakistan Economic Corridor
Image Courtesy: Wali Zahid https://bharatshakti.in/the-grand-global-corridors-china-pakistan-economic-corridor/ October 13, 2017; By: Lt Gen P R Shankar (Retired); 1 Print Email Editor’s Note Over the last two centuries, many a corridor for trade and trasit have been created by the world’s super rich nations. The Panama Canal is one such example that continues to count the passage of thousands of ships…
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Coal Firing ‘CPEC’: Colonisation Of Pakistan & Enrichment Of China
Image Courtesy: Financial Express https://bharatshakti.in/coal-firing-cpec-colonisation-of-pakistan-enrichment-of-china/ November 13, 2017; By: Lt Gen PR Shankar (Retired) Print Email Editor’s Note Notwithstanding the problems China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is expected to encounter as China progresses with the project to link its western provinces to Gwadar port, there are also a few issues that run against the policies it seems…
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The Need For Military Rebalance
Image Courtesy: Scroll.in https://bharatshakti.in/the-need-for-military-rebalance/ December 18, 2017; By: Lt Gen P R Shankar (Retd) Print Email Editor’s Note Our three Strike Corps are poised to sweep west into Pakistan while we have only one Strike Corps – in the making – to be fielded against the Chinese. With the increasing pitch of Chinese belligerence there is a requirement…
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Defence Procurement – Strengthening Our Achilles’ Heel
https://bharatshakti.in/defence-procurement-strengthening-our-achilles-heel/ January 09, 2018; By: Lt Gen P R Shankar (Retd); 2 Print Email EDITOR’S NOTE There was much hope in the strategic and defence communities when the current dispensation in Delhi moved at a fast pace on aspects concerning modernization of the armed forces and acquisitions to achieve it. However, the story so far has been patchy at best. The…
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Knowledge of Defence Acquisition – Educating Our Achilles’ Heel
https://bharatshakti.in/knowledge-of-defence-acquisition-educating-our-achilles-heel/ February 13, 2018; By: Lt Gen PR Shankar (Retired); 2 Print Email Editor’s Note The author had alluded to the fact of ‘Knowledge levels of the entire procurement chain being below par’ https://bharatshakti.in/defence-procurement-strengthening-our-achilles-heel , in one of his previous articles on the issue of defence acquisitions, published in BharatShakti. In this article, the General goes on to identify the…
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The New Carotids Of China
https://bharatshakti.in/the-new-carotids-of-china/ March 05, 2017; By: Lt Gen PR Shankar (Retd); 8 Print Email Editor’s Note The China-Pakistan-Economic-Corridor (CPEC) has evoked high decibel responses in India. The fact that it runs through territory that Indians claim as theirs, may deny the corridor legitimacy in an international court. Given the fact of the Chinese losing their case for islands in…
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