Category: India
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Kerala floods rescue op, AFSPA 'dilution': The two shades of Indian Army
https://www.dailyo.in/variety/kerala-flood-rescue-op-afspa-dilution-extra-judicial-killings-indian-army-saviours-or-killers/story/1/26294.html VARIETY | 9-minute read | 27-08-2018 Lt-Gen PR Shankar (retd) Armymen too are human beings and please grant them some rights. A WhatsApp message doing the rounds following the Kerala flood crisis reads: “…We were all petrified at the rising water…till the Army came…smiling…their actions were so reassuring…that we forgot all our fears…
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Are We Ready Across the Himalayas?
https://bharatshakti.in/are-we-ready-across-the-himalayas-2/ Image Courtesy: scmp.com June 27, 2018; By: Lt Gen PR Shankar (Retired) Print Email Editor’s Note Could we encounter a situation when China and India get into a full-fledged war once again. Unlikely, argues the General in his rather detailed analysis of the two countries’ capabilities and military build up. However, that does not rule out…
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Chinese Threat: A Reality Check
https://bharatshakti.in/chinese-treat-a-reality-check/ Image Courtesy: Little India Desk July 07, 2018; By: Lt Gen P R Shankar (RETD) Print Email Editor’s Note Force structuring is an outflow of the national interests of the nation combined with the military threats it faces. In the Indian context, we face threats from Pakistan and China. Four conflicts with Pakistan and more than…
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Playing Chinese Checkers In Bhutanese Pastures
https://bharatshakti.in/playing-chinese-checkers-in-bhutanese-pastures/ Image Courtesy: Indian Defence Review July 11, 2017; By: Lt Gen P R Shankar (Retired); 8 Print Email Editor’s Note The eyeball-to-eyeball game continues at the tri-junction with no solution in sight. The Chinese seem to be having problems with every other country with which it shares its land or maritime borders. In each of these cases…
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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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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 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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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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