China has built a new garrison in its central Sichuan province for its intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM) which have the capacity to cover all of India, the Indian Ocean Region as we... Read more
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’ c... Read more
The threat of the Doklam face-off escalating has receded in the wake of the meetings at Wuhan and Qingdao between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping. The issue, al... Read more
Editor’s Note Indo-Russian relationship has a long history of being mutually supportive. India’s current improved relations with USA; the Russians getting closer to Pakistan and China has di... Read more
In international relations chemistry and real politic often matter more than numbers but sometimes statistics can also be an important indicator. So it is with the fact that Prime Minister N... Read more
Whether or not Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s‘informal summit’ with the Chinese President Xi Jinping in Wuhan, China on 27-28 April is being conducted from a position of weakness can... Read more
Editor’s Note This article is the fourth in the series of articles on Defence Procurement by the author. His earlier articles Defence Procurement – Strengthening Our Achilles’ Heel, Knowledg... Read more
In a major foreign policy breakthrough Prime Minister Narendra Modi is travelling to China for a summit with President Xi Jinping on April 27 and 28. Coming after nearly a year of strained r... Read more
Editor’s Note The issues in Maldives do not seem to be progressing as would be expected in most democracies. President Yameen has done little beyond doing away with the emergency that he had... Read more
At a conference in China a few years ago, I watched as a Chinese expert gave a presentation laying out Beijing’s view of the military conflict that it faced in nearby seas. It was largely a... Read more
