Lt Gen Kamal Davar (Retd)
Managing Dragon’s Consistent Perfidy
The phenomenal rise in the past two decades or so of the global hegemon, China, is unquestionably one of the major challenges confronting peace loving and international laws-abiding nations across…
Gearing up for the Emerging Global Order
It will be stating the obvious that in the last two and half years, the world, owing to the China-originated COVID 19 witnessed a catastrophic economic upheaval and social disruptions…
Re-Emergence of Global Terror
That Terrorism is the scourge of the world is a harsh truism of the times is beyond dispute since the last few decades. That global challenges necessitate global solutions requires…
The Wuhan Pneumonia and Biological Warfare
An increasingly assertive China on the global stage has a more than adequate arsenal of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD). In military parlance, WMDs are weapons employed to wage nuclear,…
Military Diplomacy: A Vital Tool for Furthering National Interests
“While the civil bureaucracy and the political leadership in our MOD continue to constrain the Indian military’s engagement with the world, China is consciously promoting it.” — C Raja Mohan…
India should be prepared to fight its own battles
With the call that “America is in the game and America is going to win” strongly reminiscent of his populist campaign speeches, US President Donald Trump launched his first National…
Afghanistan: In the Grip of Spiraling Instability
Violence-stricken Afghanistan continues to find itself being helplessly crushed under the weight of spiraling political instability and mindless killings, which are often sponsored from across the border, with no peaceful…
Is India wasting its energies in totally unproductive and self-destructive pursuits?
At the cusp of becoming a reckonable global player, India, relatively a young nation but importantly, the inheritor of an ancient and a great civilization, displays an uncanny propensity for…
Pakistan: Back to square one
It was indeed a carnage, rarely witnessed in recent human history, when more than 145 innocent children and their teachers were massacred by deranged monsters belonging to the terror outfit…
Tackling the LWE Menace in India
“Of all kinds of dangers, internal dangers should be got rid of first, for it is internal troubles, like the fear from a lurking snake, that are more serious than…
Combating Left-Wing Extremism
Among the security perils that afflict India internally, the gravest and most alarmingly burgeoning is left-wing extremism (LWE), commonly dubbed as the Naxal-Maoist threat. Alluded to as being the most…
China’s growing assertiveness and shaping the Indian response
“Indian elites show little evidence of having thought coherently and systematically about strategy.” – George Tanham Nearly 200 years back, Napoleon had prophetically stated that “ let China sleep, for…
Red Dragon in India’s North West
Defence Secretary level talks between India and Pakistan held on 11-12 June 2012 at Islamabad for resolving the Siachen issue ended on expected lines with both nations sticking to their…
The snows of hope
Notwithstanding the separatists and their masters, Pakistan’s infamous Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) engineered grenade blasts in the last month, come the next few weeks, the beautiful Valley as many…
Pakistan: A Troubled Legacy and an Uncertain Future – II
Relations with the United States Pakistan’s relations since the early 1950s with its mentor, the United States, has been a roller-coaster ride. Pakistan has been kept afloat all these…
Pakistan: A Troubled Legacy and an Uncertain Future – I
It is the seventh-largest nation, with the sixth-largest armed forces, in the world and an alarmingly growing nuclear arsenal. Yet, Pakistan stands at the edge of an abyss and…
