Articles

Lt Gen Gautam Banerjee, Editor, VIF Article

In mid-April of 2013, with Xi Jinping regime in saddle, the PLA set up a camp nearly 19 kilometres west of the Line of Actual Control (LAC) near the Raki Nala in India’s strategically sensitive Depsang Plains part of Eastern Ladakh. The intrusion c....

June 29, 2021 National Security and Strategic Studies , Border and Coastal Security , Article , LAC , Eastern Ladakh , China’s territorial aspirations , PLA intrusions , Raki Nala face-off

Dialectics of Political Aims, Modern War and Victory

Lt Gen (Dr) Rakesh Sharma (Retd.), Distinguished Fellow, VIF Article

The PLA transgressions of 2020 in Eastern Ladakh, the large induction of units and formations that followed brought the PLA and Indian Army face to face, often in a nail-biting situation. The Agreements signed with China over three decades had been l....

December 22, 2020 National Security and Strategic Studies , Article , LAC , Eastern Ladakh , future war , LOC. PLA transgressions , three warfares

Redefining Two-Front War

Lt Gen (Dr) Rakesh Sharma (Retd.), Distinguished Fellow, VIF Article

On taking over as COAS, Gen Bipin Rawat, in December 2016 had said: “The two-front is a real scenario… the army, navy and IAF are now jointly very much prepared for such an eventuality.” In his first press conference as COAS, Gen Manoj N....

November 03, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , Neighbourhood Studies , China , Pakistan , Article , Pakistan , China , LoC , Information war , Cyber war , LAC , Eastern Ladakh , battle space , electromagnetic spectrum , multidomain

Eastern LADAKH (EL) and Siachen: The Geo-Strategic Obstruct

Lt Gen (Dr) Rakesh Sharma (Retd.), Distinguished Fellow, VIF Article

Indeed, the Soltoro Ridge with the Shyok River to its West, the Siachen Glacier and the Nubra Valley and the Saser Muztagh with the Shyok River to its East, is a great geostrategic obstruct to any collusive designs of Pakistan and China. With the Sha....

June 17, 2020 National Security and Strategic Studies , Article , China , Siachen , Aksai Chin , Galwan , Eastern Ladakh , Gilgit-Baltistan , Shyok , Trans Karakoram Tract , ISR