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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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Human Angles Of Defence Procurement
Image Courtesy: Ministry of Defence https://bharatshakti.in/human-angles-of-defence-procurement/ March 22, 2017; By: Lt Gen P R Shankar ( Retd); 13 Print Email Editor’s Note DPP 2016 was hailed as a path breaking document. It was meant to loosen the reins of an overbearing bureaucracy, usher in transparency, speed up the procurement process, provide impetus for FDI in defence and a…
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Are We Ready Across the Himalayas?
Image Courtesy: ACravan https://bharatshakti.in/are-we-ready-across-the-himalayas/ April 27, 2017; By: Lt Gen PR Shankar (Retired); 7 Print Email ARE WE READY ACROSS THE HIMALAYAS? In Sep 2015, China held a massive military parade in the Tiananmen Square to showcase its growing military might. Since then its actions in the South China Sea have been even more belligerent, to say the…
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The Future of Surgical Strikes
Image Courtesy: IBTimes https://bharatshakti.in/the-future-of-surgical-strikes/ May 06, 2017; By: Lt Gen P R Shankar (Retd); 1 Print Email EDITOR’S NOTE The bodies of a few of our soldiers were mutilated very recently by Pakistani Army personnel who had undertaken a cross-border operation. The hue and cry across the country that follows such ghastly incidents, increases the pressure on the…
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CPEC – The Chinese Carotid, Pakistani Jugular and an Indian Opportunity
https://bharatshakti.in/cpec-the-chinese-carotid-pakistani-jugular-and-an-indian-opportunity/ May 19, 2017; By: Lt Gen P R Shankar (Retd); 1 Print Email EDITOR’S NOTE The General, in a previous article in BharatShakti.in, had argued that the China Pakistan Economic Corridor was a carotid for China (https://bharatshakti.in/the-new-carotids-of-china/). However, it imposes huge costs on both China and Pakistan. For the Chinese the security of the corridor that passes through…
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