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6 October 2016

*** The new Modi Doctrine for the Armed Forces

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By Maj Gen Rajiv Narayanan, AVSM, VSM 05 Oct , 2016 http://www.indiandefencereview.com/news/the-new-modi-doctrine-for-the-armed-forces...

** Uri, Surgical Strikes and International Reactions

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By Vivek Chadha, Rumel Dahiya, Neha Kohli and Shruti Pandalai 05 Oct , 2016 Source Link The Uri Terrorist Attack On September ...

* 1929, 1945, 1991...and 2008?

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By George Friedman October 03, 2016 Source Link This piece was created in collaboration with Geopolitical Futures. George Friedm...

Three shades of denial

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SHASHANK JOSHI Source Link Evasion and embellishment have been responses of choice from all quarters after news of the September 29 ...

Why Army’s LoC raids aren’t ‘surgical strikes’

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Mohan Guruswamy Source Link The dictionary describes a “surgical strike” as an attack (usually without prior warning) intended to de...

India Brings Paris Climate Pact Close To Entry Into Force – Analysis

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By J Nastranis  OCTOBER 5, 2016 Source Link The ratification of the Paris Agreement on climate change by India at the United Nati...

Reliance Group gets an edge in defence play

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Source Link JV with Dassault follows India’s Rafale Jet deal with France with an offset clause of 50%, valued at about Rs.30,000 cr....

Deactivating the Permanent Indus Waters Commission

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Gautam Sen October 03, 2016 Source Link The Indus Waters Treaty (1960) has not been immune to the vicissitudes currently affecti...

The Midnight Surgery

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PRANAY SHARMA ,  BHAVNA VIJ-AURORA http://www.outlookindia.com/magazine/story/the-midnight-surgery/297929 Along with punitive meas...

The Indus Waters Treaty: Can India Inflict Significant Damage By Abrogating It?

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Swarajya Staff September 23, 2016 Source Link Several projects that India had planned for the western rivers had been stalled due ...

Mining In Afghanistan: Scale Down To Reap More – Analysis

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By Roshan Iyer*   OCTOBER 5, 2016 Source Link The mining industry in Afghanistan holds the potential to completely revolutionise th...

15 Years in the Afghan Crucible

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by Carlotta Gall October 2, 2016 http://smallwarsjournal.com/blog/15-years-in-the-afghan-crucible There is an end-of-an-era feel h...

Why the Brussels Donor Conference Should Recommit to Afghanistan

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Earl Anthony Wayne Daniel Runde Jena Santoro October 3, 2016  Source Link A stable and sustainable Afghanistan is in the interes...

Riverine Neighbourhood: Hydro-politics in South Asia

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Uttam Kumar Sinha http://idsa.in/book/riverine-neighbourhood-hydro-politics-in-south-asia Rivers are the most visible form of fresh ...

China: Perfecting Tibet Railway Network

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By Claude Arpi 05 Oct , 2016 http://www.indiandefencereview.com/china-perfecting-tibet-railway-network/ Grim news for India: accor...

The One Part of China's Military That Everyone Forgets (At Their Peril)

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Lyle J. Goldstein September 30, 2016  Source Link Studies of Chinese naval development have tended to focus of late on one of tw...

China's Crony Capitalism: The Dynamics of Regime Decay

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Minxin Pei October 2, 2016  Source Link Chinese political elites engaged in collusion with private businessmen would have no dif...

China Eyes Ending Western Grip on Top U.N. Jobs With Greater Control Over Blue Helmets

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BY COLUM LYNCH OCTOBER 2, 2016 Source Link China is believed to have its sights on the United Nations’ top peacekeeping job, a pos...

Sinositis Relap How are South China Sea and Balochistan connected? Via the dragon of course.se?

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PRANAY SHARMA http://www.outlookindia.com/magazine/story/sinositis-relapse/297805 A Chinese destroyer fires a missile in the East Ch...

POTENTIAL CHINESE ANTI-SHIP CAPABILITIES BETWEEN THE FIRST AND SECOND ISLAND CHAINS

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By Jon Solomon SEPTEMBER 20, 2016   http://cimsec.org/potential-chinese-anti-ship-capabilities-first-second-island-chains/28134 ...

** If India and Pakistan Went to War: 5 Weapons Pakistan Should Fear

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Kyle Mizokami August 16, 2014  Source Link If the unthinkable happened, India has quite the arsenal—including nuclear weapons—to...

Time To Expand German-Iran Ties – OpEd

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BY KAVEH L. AFRASIABI   OCTOBER 4, 2016 http://www.eurasiareview.com/04102016-time-to-expand-german-iran-ties-oped/ Heading a lar...

The Spark That Lit the War on Terror

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BY  LAWRENCE PINTAK SEPTEMBER 30, 2016  Source Link The ill-fated U.S. intervention in Lebanon’s civil war fueled the rise of Is...

Propaganda Techniques Of Empire – OpEd

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BY JAMES PETRAS   OCTOBER 4, 2016 http://www.eurasiareview.com/04102016-propaganda-techniques-of-empire-oped/ Washington’s quest f...

Misguided Perceptions On Nuclear Terrorism – OpEd

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By Ahsan Ali Zahid and Hasan Ehtisham   OCTOBER 4, 2016 http://www.eurasiareview.com/04102016-misguided-perceptions-on-nuclear-terroris...

Monitoring base security

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By:  Adam Stone,   October 3, 2016  http://www.c4isrnet.com/articles/monitoring-base-security Army planners say they are making...

Hackers for good: How Anand Prakash rescued Facebook

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Jaikumar Vijayan OCTOBER 3, 2016 Source Link In the first installment in an occasional series about ethical hackers, Passcode prof...

Army’s ‘Multi-Domain Battle:’ Jamming, Hacking & Long Range Missiles

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By  SYDNEY J. FREEDBERG JR. September 27, 2016  Source Link An Army soldier sets up a highband antenna. Days before the bigges...