Category: INDIA’S STRATEGIC OUTLOOK
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PAKISTAN, CANADA, KHALISTANI’S ET AL
Mr Tahir Gora and I started our conversation with Pakistan and then drifted to Canada and Khalistani’s. In his opinion, Pakistan has lost its strategic value and will remain stagnant in its present situation due to multiple factors. He highlights that the Khalistani’s in Canada are deeply entrenched in its politics and are now influential…
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INDIA BANGLADESH RELATIONS
Maj Gen Rajiv Narayanan (R) brings his personal experiential knowledge when analysing India Bangladesh Relations. He presents a different perspective of looking at how things are likely to evolve in Bangladesh and how we need to handle the situation. A normal approach will not work. Need to use our politico-economic-cultural-diplomatic leverages to handle Bangladesh which…
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CHINA’S STRATEGY OF INDIRECT APPROACH TO CONTAIN INDIA
China is very clearly adopting a strategy of indirect approach as propounded by Sir Liddel Hart to contain India. Having failed to enforce a military solution on India for the past four years and seeing the threats developing on its other fronts combined with internal difficulties, China is using Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka…
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Trump Global Order and India
Brig Arun Sahgal and I discussed a wide variety of international trends as Trump assumes US presidency. Certain issues standout. The big powers are in strategic decline as they are internally constrained and externally struggle to retain their influence. New structures and alignments are shaping global governance. India needs to be clear what it is…
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Narratives in Conflict
Lt Gen D P Pandey (R) and I discussed how narratives in conflict are spun. It is now common to generate narratives in line with political and military goals by all nations. These narratives shape public opinion before , during and after the conflict. Historically, India has been poor at generating or maintaining a narrative…
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CHINESE DISCOURSES ON INDIA
The popular perception is that there is no discussion about India in China and that they do not regard us their rivals / competitors. That is far from the truth. There is no denial of the fact that the discourse in the Chinese media is dominated by USA. China wants to reach a G2 status…
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GLOBAL TRENDS -2025
Maj Gen Rajiv Narayanan and I had a wide-ranging discussion on the Global trends in 2025. It included the dominance of USA despite its decline, the decline of China despite its militarisation and the depressing state of the EU economy and the disruptive chaos in West Asia. In this environment India has an opportunity provided…
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INDIA’S RISE AND MILITARY MODERNISATION
These days there is lot of information-disinformation on India’s capability vis a vis China. I put forth two simple propositions. India’s rise is unstoppable when compared to that of Germany, Japan and China which seem to be faltering at the slightest of hurdles whereas India continues to progress despite unsurmountable odds. India needs to equip…
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National Security Objectives in 2025
Lt Gen K J Singh outlines the regional security landscape and explains what our national security objectives should be in 2025. It is repeatedly emerging that the most important national security objective is building internal strength and structures. A nation which is socially cohesive and strong internally cannot be touched. CAPFs which are numerically as…
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INDIA’S REGIONAL TRAJECTORY IN 2025
India’s regional trajectory will be affected by big power rivalry, increasing use of violence by all forces, turmoil in adjoining states and revival of AfPak dynamics and Pak China collusion. The region is being increasingly militarised and disinformation narratives are rampant. Destabilisation of India is being attempted by Western and Chinese powers. In this scenario,…
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