Providing tanks to Ukraine The Excelsior 01 Feb 2023 The announcement by the US to supply 31 Abrams tanks, Germany 14 Leopard-2 and the UK 14 Challenger-2 tanks against Zelensky’s demand of 300 tanks, reignites the debate on employment of armour in the modern battlefield. These deliveries are in addition to some Leopard-2 tanks promised by Ukraine’s other neighbours […]
British must shed colonial hangover The Statesman 31 Jan 2023 The BBC documentary on PM Modi and the Gujrat riots have been under discussion for the past fortnight. While the Indian government has rightly banned the documentary and its links in India, the fact that the BBC published its foreign office’s illegal investigation into the Gujrat riots displays its […]
Pakistan’s offer for talks The Excelsior 28 Jan 2023 In an interview to Al Arabiya news channel in the UAE, Shehbaz Sharif, Pakistan’s PM, stating that Pakistan has learnt its lesson from past wars, mentioned, ‘My message to the Indian leadership and PM Modi is that let us sit down on the table and have serious and sincere talks […]
Terrorism: Is Pak hosting IS Khorasan on its soil India vs Disinformation 24 Jan 2023 ‘A leaked Taliban internal memo reports of ISKP (Islamic State Khorasan Province) training camps inside Pakistan’s tribal area and warns of ISKP cadre massing from Pakistan into their Logar province,’ Bilal Sarwary, an independent journalist recently said in his tweet attaching with it the […]
Make in India if you want to sell in India The Statesman 24 Jan 2023 There were reports that India is currently in talks with Airbus and Boeing to set up assembly lines for their aircraft manufacturing in the country. India is likely to be the third largest aviation market in the next decade, increasing its demands for new […]
TTP’s ideology will be difficult to defeat The Statesman 17 Jan 2023 Shamil Shams writes in an article in The Dawn in 2016, titled ‘Before and After Zia-ul Haq’, ‘Pakistani decision makers have found religious extremists a natural choice for alliance/usage as tools of foreign policy.’ He justifies his statement by stating, ‘the centrist, post-colonial state dominated by the […]
Kashmir terrorism and article 370 The Excelsior 17 Jan 2023 Speaking to reporters in Anantnag post the Rajouri killings on 01 and 02 Jan this year, Omar Abdullah stated, ‘Earlier, it was said that Article 370 pampered militancy in J&K and if it will be finished the region will get militancy-free and people will heave a sigh of relief. […]
India-Japan air exercises are aimed at belligerent, expansionist China First Post 13 Jan 2023 ‘Veer Guardian 2023,’ an Indo-Japan joint air exercise, is being conducted at Japan’s Hyakuri air base from 12 to 26 Jan. India will be fielding four Su-30 MKI jets, two C-17 and one IL-78 aircraft, while the JASDF (Japan Air Self Defence Force) will participate […]
China must realise India can hit back The Statesman 10 Jan 2023 Claiming that the tense situation along India’s northern borders is because China had not adhered to earlier border agreements, Jaishankar stated in an interaction with Austrian public broadcaster ORF, ‘There’s a larger concern, which is based on our experiences. The concern is that we had agreements with […]
Theatre commands and the national security strategy The Excelsior 10 Jan 2023 Speaking at the 4th General K V Krishna Rao Memorial Lecture in New Delhi, General Naravane, the former army chief, said, ‘Theaterization is not an end, it is only a means to an end and that end has to be specified first in the form of a national […]