Bharat Verma

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  • Nehru Zojila Sukhdev Singh

    The Nehruvian Blunder

    In any future conflict, New Delhi’s political will and the capabilities of the Indian military should be such that China and Pakistan are hard-pressed to...
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    1962: नेहरू ने देश का किया बंटाधार!

    नेविल मैक्सविल ने अपने ब्लॉग पर ‘हैंडरसन ब्रुक्स की जो रिपोर्ट रिलीज की है, वह स्पष्ट रूप से इशारा करती है कि 1962 का भारत-चीन...
  • Martyrs Amar Jawan Jyoti

    Kargil: Ours must live, enemy must die!

    Even as the nation readies itself to pay homage to the extraordinary bravery displayed by the young officers and the men of the Indian Army...
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    Mainstream India’s Military Power

    On attaining independence, the first question that should have continually been thrown up was “What are the infirmities in our character that have made India...
  • March Of The Maoists

    Blueprint to tackle Maoists

    First Published on print issue of IDR Jul-Sep 2010 (Vol 25.3) THE BIG PICTURE Confronted with the Maoist menace, Civil Administration’s incompetence is making mountain...
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    How to Setup A Modern Defence Industry in India?

    Sixty-seven years of Independence and not a single combat aircraft has been produced by India! Despite the word ‘indigenisation’ featuring repeatedly in political rhetoric, one...
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    If Pakistan splinters…

    If Pakistan splinters, it will hit the biggest stakeholder and benefactor China. In order to safeguard its strategic interests, Beijing therefore will make every endeavor...
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    Take the war to the enemy

    New Delhi continues to fumble while India burns. Pakistan’s superior psychological warfare machinery further tied down the already overstretched Indian security forces in knots. Airports...
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    The myths on Pakistan

    Indians have been spoon-fed for decades that stable Pakistan alone is necessary for India’s growth. Or that united Pakistan poses less threat than fragmented Pakistan....
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    Pakistan: The Jihad Factory

    Pakistan ultimately turned out to be the most dangerous place in the world. After witnessing the massacre of thirty-five innocent Indian citizens in the Valley,...
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    Taliban set to takeover Pakistan

    In the near future, Taliban and Taliban like groups will impose Afghanistan type Taliban regime on Pakistan. The civil war raging inside Pakistan in search...
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    Stable Pakistan not in India’s interest

    Indians pose the biggest threat to the union of India. The reason is simple. An average Indian does not constitute a nation but is merely...
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    Prepare for the Next Great War

    Today, India is ringed by turbulent states – Pakistan (land boundary with India 3,310 kms in the northwest), Nepal (land boundary with India 1,751 kms...
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    Leapfrog the Technological Gap

    India needs to do a China. Beijing has successfully converted China into a low cost manufacturing hub of the world. Similarly, New Delhi should rapidly...
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    हमारा नहीं पाकिस्तान का हित दांव पर

    प्रधानमंत्री नरेंद्र मोदी ने दक्षेस सदस्य देशों को अपने शपथ ग्रहण समारोह में आमंत्रित करने की पहल करके एक साथ कई उपलब्धियां हासिल की है।...
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    Chinese are coming…

    After the Mughals and the British, it now appears to be China’s turn to encircle, enslave and make India a surrogate power. Apparently, China firmly...
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    The Fake Military Coup

    Prime Minister Manmohan Singh should order investigations by a retired Supreme Court Judge into the fake military coup propagated by former Defence Secretary Shashi Kant...
  • Indian Army Jawans

    2014 में रक्षा की प्राथमिकताएं

    हमारे देश में हर चीज के साथ ही असंगत दृष्टिकोण अपनाया जाता है। हम मुकम्मल तस्वीर देखने के आदी हैं। हम एक बड़ी तस्वीर में...
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    Slow Pace of Army Modernization

    Strange as it may seem, Indian genius can successfully launch multiple satellites or a spacecraft to Mars but seems hopelessly ill-equipped to develop a basic...
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    Military: The Grid of Violence

    Violence unleashed upon a nation can only be met by developing the capability to counter the violence. In the twenty-first century, unless societies with deep-rooted...
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    Strategy for incremental influence in Asia

    In the unfolding geopolitical scenario, two major forces are driving the world today: modernisation and globalisation on one hand and terrorism on the other. The...
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    The Chinese Game Plan

    With the opening of two fronts against New Delhi, Beijing will, in collusion with Islamabad, repeat ‘1962’ in the near future on an enlarged scale....
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    How India can acquire great power status?

    Due to New Delhi’s slavish use of ‘carrot’ since Independence, without any equilibrium with the ‘stick’, the great power potential of India lies in tatters....
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    End the neglect of the Military

    Growing threat perceptions call for urgent sprucing up of the military machine which has been grossly neglected in India so far. The Pakistan Army’s strategy...
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    India’s Shrinking Military Capabilities

    Indian military capabilities shrink rapidly while the threats multiply. Instead of removing poverty, the politician turned poverty into business of vote-bank-politics. Result: Sixty-two years later...
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    Unmaking of a great power in the making…

    Sixty-five years after Independence, the ‘functional anarchy’ is now increasingly becoming dysfunctional as disorder spreads across the Union of India. Midway, even before she could...
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    2012: Multiplying security threats

    India is surrounded with Islamic fundamentalist regimes, a rising communist super power and military dictatorship. The authoritarian regimes in the neighbourhood contradict India’s multi-cultural democracy....
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    India’s emerging defence doctrine

    India is a unique country, with all the favourable geographical attributes of an offensive orientation. It is separated from the rest of the Asian landmass...
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    Pakistan : The Next Battlefield

    Ten years later, the  forecast made in 2002 by the writer appears to be coming true-Editor. War on Terrorism will zero in on Pakistan as...
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    Pakistan unleashes Cyber War on India

    The next generation of warfare, the cyber war can not only disrupt data-links, electronic devices and networks, but can also create panic by use of...
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    The Winnable War!

    The British nearly gave up war in Afghanistan recently and instead wanted dialogue with Al-Qaeda. Washington termed it defeatist and subsequently London rescinded the suggestion....
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    Nervous China may attack India!

    China will launch an attack on India before 2012. There are multiple reasons for a desperate Beijing to teach India the final lesson, thereby ensuring...
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    The danger from China

    The multi-dimensional threat between 2011 and 2014 from China is real. Taken aback by screaming headlines in the media that nervous China may attack India...
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    Time New Delhi calls Islamabad’s Bluff!

    Pakistan once again managed to befool New Delhi and the Indian media through its diversionary tactics. They cleverly diverted the attention from the unfolding big...
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    Why India needs a survival strategy

    Imperial China first gobbled up pacifist Tibet and now demands major territorial concessions from pacifist India to protect the flanks of the conquered land. With...
  • Ins Chakra

    India’s Shrinking Influence

    Despite India’s pretensions of an emerging great power, its influence is shrinking -both, internally as well as on its external periphery. Internally, Naxalites and insurgent...
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    Iran-Israel spat: National Interest is Supreme

    India appears to be caught in crossfire between Iran and Israel. New Delhi should evaluate the strategic dividends that accrue from Iran and Israel before...
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    Pakistan at War with Itself

    In the coming years, Islamabad will remain pre-occupied with internal strife without respite due to multiple contradictions arising out of the use of terrorism primarily...
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    Game Plan for Return of Musharraf

    There is a clear link between Musharraf’s announcements to fight elections in 2012 and lead his party, propping up of Imran Khan, and Pakistan Army...
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    MoD extends battle winning advantage to the enemy!

    The Ministry of Defence (MoD) with its superfluous layers of bureaucracy and the complicated defence procurement procedures, has not only delayed the modernization of armed...
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    Develop Cutting Edge Defense Industries

    To develop cutting edge defense industries, New Delhi must eschew the inherent divisive tendencies. Instead of consolidating Aero India 2009 as the foremost Asian aerospace...
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    The Winnable War

     On a scale of 1 to 10, an American editor of a defence newspaper told me that his threat perception on terror attacks inside the...