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From Sanctions to Submarines - Myanmar, July 2019
August 12 , 2019 Jaideep Chanda
Article Views: 2664
July 2019 saw Myanmar remain in the news for a number of reasons, some negative and others not so negative. At the end of it all, though it may be a bit early to judge, it seems to be business as usual ...

Myanmar, Neighbourhood Studies

Tags : India-Myanmar defence cooperation , Rohingyia problem , West isolating Mynamar

Three Cheers - Jammu and Kashmir is Truly Integrated with India
August 10 , 2019 General NC Vij, PVSM, UYSM, AVSM
Commentary Views: 5144
Lightening strike, surgical operations and surprise are the terminologies most used and practiced in military operations. But here in Jammu and Kashmir, Government of India has done one better and in o...

Jammu & Kashmir, Governance and Political Studies

Tags : Pakistan’s antics over Kashmir , Repeal of Articles 370 & 35A , Roots of Kashmir separatism

The War on Yemen
August 9 , 2019 Amb K P Fabian
Article Views: 2470
Saudi Arabia invaded its neighbour Yemen in March 2015. The assessment then in Riyadh was that after a few weeks of aerial bombing, the Houthis will surrender and Hadi, the President who escaped to Riya...

West Asia, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Conflict in Middle East , Houthi-Saudi conflict , Saudi-Yemen War

सब का साथ, सब का विश्वास ने क्या ‘बांटो और शासन करो’ की सियासी चालों को खत्म कर दिया है?
August 9 , 2019 Lt Gen Gautam Banerjee, Editor, VIF
Article Views: 2901
“चुनाव आ रहा है। विश्व शांति की घोषणा की गई है और लोमड़ियों ने मुर्गियों को दीर्घायु करने में गंभीर दिलचस्पी लेना शुरू कर दिया है।’’ टीएस इलिएट नये भारत’ में राजनीति जन साधारण से बातचीत करने पर तो हमे...

Governance and Political Studies

Tags : Hindi , अल्पसंख्यकों का उत्थान , बांटो और शासन करो की राजनीति , लोकतंत्र के नाम पर समाज को बांटना

Defending China in the Xi Jinping Era
August 8 , 2019 Brig Vinod Anand, Senior Fellow, VIF
Article Views: 2280
China’s White Paper on defence titled ‘China’s National Defense in New Era’ of 2019, coming after a gap of four years, bears a strong imprint of President Xi Jinping on Beijing’s defence and security po...

China, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : China’s military assertion , China’s White Paper 2019 , PLA under Xi Jinping

Modi did what Nehru wanted to, but couldn’t, on Article 370
August 7 , 2019 S Gurumurthy, Chairman, VIF
Article Views: 3547
When Home Minister Amit Shah declared on August 6 that Article 370 has been scrapped and Kashmir fully integrated with the rest of India, whether or not he was aware, he said almost exactly what Jawahar...

Jammu & Kashmir, Governance and Political Studies

Tags : Amit Shah , Article 370 , Congress Kashmir abrogation , Jawaharlal Nehru , Lok Sabha , RSS

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