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China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) – Failure Looming Ahead By Lt Gen P R Shankar (Retd)
Editor’s Note Is the CPEC faltering? What is the extent to which it has been pruned down already? Why are more and more countries getting apprehensive about Chinese funding? Has it got anything to do with Hambantota unfolding – the Chinese garnering a 99 years lease on the loss making huge port and logistics facility…
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A Quick Supplement For Understanding The Role and Context Of Anti-Satellite Weapons By Lt Gen P.R. Shankar
A satellite can be used for many military purposes. Primarily, military satellites are used for Communication, Intelligence, Surveillance & Reconnaissance, Navigation, Meteorological Observations and Electronic Warfare. Theoretically any satellite, can carry out these functions whether it is in High, Geostationary, Mid or Low Earth orbits. However, from a practical point of view it is the…
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Pakistan Nervous, Deep State on High Alert by Lt. Gen PR Shankar (Retd)
Original Article at bharatshakti,in April 03, 2019; Pakistan is in a High Strung State and its Deep State is on high alert. The Pakistani Prime Minister feels that Indian mischief is possible before the elections. Even the heat and dust of the Indian election juggernaut is keeping Pakistan on its toes and bleeding its economy! High…
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ISRO and IIT Madras can bring to life Sivakasi’s dying firecracker industry By Lt Gen P R Shankar (r)
see the print.in for the original article Defence ministry too wants to indegenise ammunition production, and Tamil Nadu govt can use this to turn Sivakasi into a propellant manufacturing hub. The toxic chemicals whose manufacturing brought the environmental spotlight on Tamil Nadu’s Sivakasi may just help transform the city’s fortunes after all — with some…
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A REBUTTAL TO SPICE MISS THEORIES AT BALAKOT BY LT GEN P R SHANKAR (R)
Authors note: all photographs are taken from the articles referred to in the main body This article can also be found @ https://sniwire.com/defence-security/2672/ The articles ‘New High Res Satellite Imagery Suggests Balakot Airstrike a ‘Precise Miss’’[1]and ‘Were India’s airstrikes in Pakistan a strategy for public approval’?[2] by a set of researchers from the Australian Strategic Policy…
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STRATEGIC RESTRAINT VS SURGICAL STRIKES – A PAKISTANI VIEWPOINT BY LT GEN P R SHANKAR (R)
‘If only we conducted airstrike after 26/11 attack’: Nirmala Sitharaman[1] Debate is raging in the political, military, diplomatic and journalistic circles regarding the Surgical Strike strategy of the current government vs the Strategic Restraint exhibited by previous governments. These strategies are either extolled or denigrated, often acrimoniously, depending upon which side of the divide one…
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PINAKA – AN ANALYSIS OF SUCCESS BY LT GEN P R SHANKAR (R)
The Pinaka is a multi-barreled rocket launcher capable of firing twelve 210 mm rockets in 44 seconds at a range of 38 km. In 2015, an Extended Range Unguided Pinaka Rocket was fired to a range of 55km using case bonded propellants. The rockets fell more than 500 m away from the intended target. Not…
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China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) – Failure Looming Ahead By: Lt Gen P R Shankar (Retd)
This article was originally published at the Bharat Shakti website Editor’s Note Is the CPEC faltering? What is the extent to which it has been pruned down already? Why are more and more countries getting apprehensive about Chinese funding? Has it got anything to do with Hambantota unfolding – the Chinese garnering a 99 years lease…
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CROSS ROADS BEYOND BALAKOT BY LT GEN P R SHANKAR (R)
Dawn – Seventeen years after first banning militant groups, Pakistan is once again at a crossroads. (https://www.dawn.com/news/1468717/renewed-campaign) If in seventeen years a nation does not know that it took a wrong turn then, the likelihood of taking the right turn are bleak. Pakistan should stop cheating itself. Chessboards The Indo-Pak chessboard changed dramatically when India…
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THE LONG HAUL AFTER BALAKOT BY LT GEN P R SHANKAR (R)
PURANA PAKISTAN HANGS PRIME MINISTER NAYA PAKISTAN PROTECTS TERRORISTS AND JAILS PRIME MINISTER! The high-profile aerial exchanges between us and the Deep State are over. Some de-escalation has taken place. The nuclear risk has been pushed back for now. But …it is far from over. There is a lull in this battle. Lot of opinions…
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