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Tactically Speaking…

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-A Soldier from the Line of Actual Control*

On 29 August 2020, as we had got ready to move, there was a feeling of expectancy. It had little to do with the devious adversary, the breath-taking heights, the extreme of weather or the....

September 17, 2020 National Security and Strategic Studies , International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Commentary , Artillery , PLA , Aircraft , LAC , Armour , Defence brick , Engineers , Gurung hill , Rezang La , Spanggur Tso

India-China Face Off- Has China Committed a Faux Pas?

Amb Kanwal Sibal Article

China has committed a grave error in triggering a military confrontation in Ladakh. It has underestimated the Indian resolve to stand up to its bullying tactics. Doklam should have been a warning to China that its military efforts to gain territorial....

September 09, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Article , China , Xi Jinping , CCP , PLA , LAC , Ladakh , Pangong Tso , Wang Yi , economic front , military conflict , Defence Ministers meeting

The Shifting Strategic Connotations of Line(s) of Control

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

The Line of Control (LOC), the Line of Actual Control (LAC) hereinafter the LINES, and the Actual Ground Position Line (AGPL) in the Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh, are denoted by huge dissimilarities, as chalk and cheese. The 772....

September 08, 2020 National Security and Strategic Studies , International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Article , China , CPEC , PLA , Gilgit-Baltistan , CBMs , Chushul , Eastern Ladakh. , Raksha Mantri

Inflexion in Sino-Indian Relations: Case for Strategic Pragmatism

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

The new China has shown itself as muscular, aggressive, expansionist and determined to force its way to top of the world stage by vigourously establishing Pax Sinica. China’s in the past three decades has been rapidly growing economically ....

August 21, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Article , China , QUAD , PLA , BRI , Aksai Chin , COVID-19 , LAC , Ladakh , CBMs , Pangong Tso

Floods in China: Yet another critical test for Xi Jinping

Dr Teshu Singh Article

Floods in China are an annual phenomenon. This year’s flood comes at the time when China is already battling the COVID-19 which has hit 27 out of 31 provinces of China. Since June, torrential rain in China has broken all records. It is the most dev....

August 07, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Article , Xi Jinping , Disaster , PLA , Li Keqiang , COVID-19 , Three Gorges Dam , Yangtze River , Floods , Black Swan

The ‘Party’ that Controls the Gun!

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

In analysing the aggression shown by the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) in Eastern Ladakh since May 2020, and the intransigence apparent in the consequent negotiations to return to status quo, it is imperative follow the hierarchy dictating the sam....

July 23, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Article , CPC , PLA , Ladakh , Mao , Western Theatre Command , political commissar , 2019 White Paper China National Defense , C4ISR

Eastern Ladakh: Studying the ‘Warning Shots’

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

The whys and wherefores of the Chinese aggression in Eastern Ladakh, cumulated with the larger peripheral belligerence in South China and East China Seas and the Taiwan Straits in 2020, have been debated ad infinitum. The events of Galwan Valley, Hot....

July 13, 2020 National Security and Strategic Studies , Article , PLA , Strategic Support Force , Ladakh , Tibet , Galwan valley , ISR , Strategic Rocket Force , Xinjian , PLA Western Theatre Command

Countering Coercion in The Indo-Pacific

Vice Admiral Girish Luthra (retd.) Article

Deliberate and pre-meditated intrusions by China, along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) with India, and consequent Indian responses, have raised concerns globally about the potential of escalation. Diplomatic, economic, military, informational, and ....

July 08, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , Indo-Pacific , Article , China , Indian Ocean Region , PLA , LAC , Coercion , Maritime Security Strategy , Two Front war

PAEAN TO COLONEL BABU AND HIS MEN | A POEM

Amb Kanwal Sibal Commentary

At those heights where the earth touches the sky The wind blows like a flurry of sharp spears That pierce the flesh without drawing blood When breathing becomes an ordeal And each step an act of determination to feel alive Our soldiers....

July 03, 2020 National Security and Strategic Studies , International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Commentary , China , PLA , Uighurs , Col Suresh Babu , Tibetans , Stone Age warriors , Forbidden City , Galwan River , Hegemonic ambitions