Category: India
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India’s Space Docking and Chinese Reactions
The Chinese reactions to India’s Space Docking Experiment has been vitriolic. While their media has grudgingly acknowledged the achievement, the reaction from the public and those who have watched the video has bordered on hostility. Many have said that the space docking has been a fake. One has gone on to acknowledge its success and…
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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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INTEGRATED THEATRE COMMANDS IN INDIA
2025 has been declared as the year of reforms by the MOD. The singular major reform which is expected to kick in is establishment of integrated theatre commands. While the size and shape of the theatres can be discussed and debated , one must not be in a hurry in rolling out the theatres. The…
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China’s Politico Military Strategy In 2025
Xi has deep anxieties on many fronts – economic, diplomatic, demographic and military. China now face four military fronts in Korea, Taiwan, South China Sea and India. It does not want to get into a two front situation. It has failed to enforce a military solution on India. USA is redeploying and reinforcing forces in…
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PAKISTAN IN 2025
Discussion with Dr Amjad Ayub Mirza indicates that Pakistan will plumb new depths in 2025. There will be no great improvement as it will continue to struggle with TTP, BLA and unrest in POK. The interesting issue is that in case India wants to regain POK which is its legitimate territory, there must be a…
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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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