Lt Gen (Dr) JS Bajwa

If one enjoys the delectable ‘Yuan YuangHuo Guo’ (Chinese half spicy half not spicy Hot Pot) with a swig of Kweichow Moutai, does it mean...

China’s history has been continuously tailored and retrofitted to its seemingly insatiable greed for territory. The ‘Great Wall of China’ is an indicator of how...

Lt Gen JS Bajwa – Editor Indian Defence Review (IDR) had the unique privilege to interview the Air Chief Marshal Vivek Ram Chaudhari, PVSM, AVSM,...

“Today the foundations of power have been moving away from the emphasis on military force and conquest. The absence of a warrior ethic in modern...

The 21st Century and its post-modern society has rejected the “universal validity” of binary oppositions, stable identity, hierarchy, and categorization. Postmodernism is largely a reaction...

"Today’s Era is Not of War: A Strong Nation Needs a Strong Military" “I know today’s era is not of war…… that democracy, diplomacy and...

“A riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma”, was a comment by Churchill on Russia. However, in today’s world this would more aptly apply...

Ten years ago, in 2012, the then Chief of the Army Staff wrote a detailed letter to the then Prime Minister bringing to his notice...

'The Avatar is the one that holds the balance of them together until he disappears. When that happens, peace is lost and war becomes the...

“A new world order can only be created if we establish an order where the powerful wolf cannot eat the weak lamb!”— Mehmet Murat ildan...

“My logisticians are a humourless lot... they know if my campaign fails, they will be the first ones I will slay.” — Alexander the Great...

“Since deterrence can only be tested negatively, by events that do not take place, and since it is never possible to demonstrate why something has...

Interview first published in Sep 2020 IBT: India has recently imposed an import embargo on 101 items in the defence sector. How well is the...

As expected there was a wave of euphoria amongst the Indian liberal community. They see the Pakistani National Security Policy as a success of all...

On 4th January 2022, the Chairman of the Chinese Central Military Commission (CMC), Xi Jinping, signed and issued the Training Mobilisation Order (TMO) to the...

The surrogate of the 21st century is an adjunct in a growing tool box within the full-spectrum, hybrid conflicts where kinetic action is just one...

“The Iraqi and Afghan wars have not ‘ended.’ Only America’s involvement has ‘ended.’ …When a country leaves a war before achieving victory it is not...

“Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.” Our principle is that the Party commands the gun, and the gun must never be...

“If you have an enemy, then learn and know your enemy, don’t just be mad at him.” — Denzel Hayes Washington (American actor, director, and...

“The world is a gymnasium where nations come to make themselves strong.” — Swami Vivekananda Ancient Indian identity was forged by distinct geographical reality that...

“The state... always feels itself weak if there is another that is stronger. Its security and preservation demand that it make itself more powerful than...

“Our path is different from both the paths of Germany in World War I and Germany and Japan in World War II, when they tried...

“We live in a wondrous time, in which the strong is weak because of his scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity.”...

The 1962 Chinese attack was – “To demolish India’s arrogance and illusions of grandeur. China had taught India a lesson and would do so again...

China’s sustained double digit economic growth over three decades transformed China. It has lifted 700 million Chinese people out poverty – an unparalleled feat in...

“On 12th and 13th December 1948, the Indian Air Force bombed a Pakistani military stores and ammunition dump at Palak, situated between Kotli and Mirpur....

“Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of...

In the wee hours of the morning of February 26, 2019, India reacted to the Pulwama suicide attack on the Indian Security Forces with a...

“The darker and bigger the cloud, the more brilliant is the silver lining.” — Hope is not lost. The recent proceedings at the United Nations...

“If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there”, said the Cheshire Cat to Alice. — Alice in Wonderland, By...

“The world will not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried. Most people were silent. I remembered the line from the...

The article “Why India's announcement on Kashmir is such a serious mistake” authored by Tim Willasey-Wilsey (former senior British diplomat who worked in Southern Africa,...

There has been much euphoria in the media over India being backed by 55 members of the UN for a seat as a non-permanent member...

By end-May, a new government will be in power in India. Evidently it will be a NDA government with reinforced mandate in power for the...

“It is the policy of the United States to seek and support the growth of democratic movements and institutions in every nation and culture, with...

“Nero fiddled while Rome burnt.” In July of the year 64 CE (Common Era) a great fire ravaged Rome for six days destroying seventy percent...

Two decades into the twenty first century, and here we have the head of a huge state issuing threats to a tiny nation off its...

A quaint situation exists in the State of Arunachal Pradesh. Land required by the security forces for construction of defence works which include bunkers, firing...

“It is too true, however disgraceful it may be to human nature, that nations in general will make war whenever they have a prospect of...

“To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven. A time to be born and a time to die.”...

Just the other day the Raksha Mantri, in response to the Pakistani Army Chief’s overture for peace is reported to have made a statement to...

Screaming headlines and newspaper waving gleeful ‘Track 2’ members are giving thumbs up on an ‘about to restart Indo-Pak peace process!!! In a recent briefing...

‘An analysis of the content and character of armed confrontation in local wars and armed conflicts over the last decade leads us to the conclusion...

It can be difficult to separate the important from the unimportant on any given day. The reflections below mean to do exactly that - by...

Are North Korea’s nuclear tipped missiles a threat to the World or the United States of America? Is United States of America the World??!! US...

Planet Earth, it seemed, held its breath for these seven days in October to see what emerged from the secret parleys of the 19th Party...

Doklam, was an innocuous and routine local initiative by the troops on ground. The commander there felt the need to ensure that the existing Agreements...

In the mid-1990’s a “China Threat Theory” gained currency as a reaction to China’s huge progress in the economic, military and manufacturing sectors. In fact,...

The SENSEX is zooming and therefore all is hunky dory. The Government is busy with its economic agenda. All is well. Doklam!! What of it?...

“A process of interacting expectations with additional motive for attack being produced by successive cycles of ‘He thinks we think he thinks we think… He...