https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/the-afghan-fallout-in-pakistan/August 25, 2021, 7:28 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/fd91f78b_4309_P_5_mr-1.jpgOthersIndia must realise that it is going to contend with a Pakistan whose western and eastern borders, as well as the core centre, will be in a state of continuous instability. The vulnerable core will also start fraying. The challenge for New Delhi is...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/the-sum-of-pakistani-wishes/August 20, 2021, 7:20 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/7bfa3ef3_4213_P_3_mr-1.jpgOthersThe new Great Game might just be unfolding in Pakistan. Afghanistan might just be the prelude. India should know which wicket to bat on and how.https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/the-afghan-fallout-in-pakistan/August 25, 2021, 7:28 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/fd91f78b_4309_P_5_mr-1.jpgOthersThe collapse of the Afghan National Army (ANA), the hasty withdrawal of the US and the rapid gains of Taliban in Afghanistan have major lessons for military and political leadership. ANA lost it completely due to poor motivation and training. Its ...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/the-superpower-not-to-be/August 17, 2021, 2:41 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/95206870_4128_P_1_mr-1.jpgOthersChina’s ability to take a hit in the pre-revolution period is well-known. However, China under the CCP has built glass walls around it. These might just crack to bring the edifice down. China is risk-averse and will get into a fight only if it can...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/afghanistan-at-crossroads-and-the-road-ahead-for-taliban/August 2, 2021, 4:00 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/eae83db9_3758_P_2_mr-1.jpgOthersWhile the Taliban never withered away, and that they now have come back into the reckoning, the ground situation in Afghanistan has changed drastically.https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/the-afghan-fallout-in-pakistan/August 25, 2021, 7:28 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/fd91f78b_4309_P_5_mr-1.jpgOthersAs the US forces are exiting Afghanistan ahead of their timetable, the Taliban offensive has gained tempo in the northeast and south of the country.  It is inexorably bringing the country closer to the expected chaos and an impendin...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/sino-indian-logjam-aim-revisited/July 8, 2021, 2:20 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/8070cfde_3343_P_1_mr-1.jpgOthersEver since the intrusions in eastern Ladakh, we have always been wondering as to why China did what it did. What was the Chinese ‘aim’? Several views and reasons were put forth. None have really gelled. There is no consensus or clarity on the issu...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/come-september-in-afghanistan/July 7, 2021, 7:47 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/1a3d5188_3341_P_2_mr-1.jpgOthers‘Come September’ was a famous blockbuster tune of the 1960s. What will be the tune ‘Come September’ in Afghanistan?https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/are-we-aiming-without-arming/July 5, 2021, 4:00 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/df5f4230_3306_P_3_mr-1.jpgOthersWe have come to a stage where the government will have to take the call that it will do the needful to stem the China-Pakistan tide. To ‘aim’ high, we need to ‘arm’ accordingly.https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/the-saga-of-theatrisation/July 2, 2021, 3:13 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/52c35106_3276_P_2_mr-1.jpgOthersIt is well-known that while the Army and Navy are fully onboard with the concept of ‘theatrisation’, the IAF still has certain reservations. These reservations were always there and have only resurfaced. The public impression being generated is th...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/china-vs-china-unravelling-an-interesting-battle/June 23, 2021, 7:53 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/4014abbb_3165_P_2_mr-3.jpgOthersChina, as we see it today, will not be the same in another five years. India needs to be cognisant of this fact and script a long-term strategy to handle the emerging Dragon. https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/the-afghan-fallout-in-pakistan/August 25, 2021, 7:28 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/fd91f78b_4309_P_5_mr-1.jpgOthersGalwan is a turning point in our history. It was India’s ‘Casablanca’ moment when our boys stood on the burning deck to turn tables. It was that moment in time when India and the world realized that the Chinese can be overcome. It was the Nth&nbsp...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/the-five-cancers-of-pakistan/April 19, 2021, 2:38 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/dfd8b4c9_2369_P_2_mr-1.jpgOthersWhy Pakistan is plumbing new depths of toxicity and will continue to do so.https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/pakistan-anatomy-of-a-u-turn-2/April 16, 2021, 3:05 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/90b01f67_2321_P_1_mr-1.jpgOthersA strong military in Pakistan and a strong political leadership in India were supposed to be the harbingers of a peace settlement between the two nations, but the politico-military leadership of Islamabad is weak.https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/pakistan-anatomy-of-a-u-turn/April 15, 2021, 6:31 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Webp.net-resizeimage-75-1.jpgOthersA strong military in Pakistan and a strong political leadership in India were supposed to be the harbingers of a peace settlement between the two nations, but the politico-military leadership of Islamabad is weak.https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/indias-emergence-beyond-reticence/April 12, 2021, 2:55 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/4c730894_2288_P_4_mr-1.jpgOthersWhen international institutions say that India will be the fastest growing economy in the foreseeable future, it represents something. When the military leads negotiations with China over the border dispute, it is a ‘first time’ paradigm. When the...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/pakistan-in-cancer-ward/April 7, 2021, 8:39 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/0209b1c6_2238_P_1_mr-1.jpgOthersUnderstanding Pakistan and its deep-rooted problems through the articles that have appeared in its own newspaper, Dawn.https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/making-the-best-of-defence-budget/April 3, 2021, 8:01 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/c2703388_2200_P_1_mr-1.jpgOthersDoes our politico-military-bureaucratic leadership have the wisdom to grasp the opportunity and overcome the challenge? https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/pitch-strength-against-pla-weakness/April 1, 2021, 6:31 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/d307a8c5_2162_P_2_mr-1.jpgOthersThis article is pitched for unit level officers to understand PLA troops better to defeat them in battle tomorrow.https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/why-pakistan-is-suddenly-offering-an-olive-branch-to-india/March 23, 2021, 8:33 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Webp.net-resizeimage-20-2.jpgOthersIf Pakistan’s economy is to revive, its security enabled, health conditions to be treated and to get out of the clutches of China and US, peace with India is mandatory. There is no way anyone will bail out Pakistan.https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/there-is-no-alternative-to-quad-3-0/March 18, 2021, 3:42 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/932c9173_2008_P_3_mr-1.jpgOthersQuad needs to provide leadership to the new global order. Gone are the days when one country could lead the way. A multipolar world needs a multipolar leadership based on the Quad.https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/sino-indian-logjam-time-to-rejig-the-troika/March 15, 2021, 9:16 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/a1e42f3c_1960_P_2_mr-1.jpgOthersIn India a unique troika of political, military and bureaucratic leadership manages politico-military affairs. This flawed leadership structure is costing India dearly. India must move to politico-military fusion geopolitically and politico-milita...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/sino-indian-logjam-the-unlikely-return/March 12, 2021, 2:33 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/6a179504_1944_P_4_mr-1.jpgOthersFor any aspiring superpower like China, being forced to vacate a captured area is demeaning. Especially, after advertising the captured areas as sovereign to it. Notwithstanding all the spin and propaganda, this withdrawal will rankle the Chinese....https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/from-soft-vaccine-power-to-hard-economic-power/February 22, 2021, 8:14 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/coronavirus.jpgOthersJust as the coronavirus pandemic destroyed the global order, the vaccines will reset the global order once again. One won’t be surprised if China approaches India for vaccines to tide over a crisis. Time to play hard ball on many issues is approac...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/six-strategies-for-quad-3-0/February 20, 2021, 2:53 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/092c012b_1715_P_6_mr-1.jpgOthersQuad 3.0 must first firm up itself. It must define for itself what it wants to achieve within its limitations, differences and realms of possibility, amid the rise of China and its global ambition.https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/lac-disengagement-still-a-long-way-to-go-for-genuine-peace/February 19, 2021, 8:21 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/777966e6_1709_P_3_mr-1.jpgOthersA new dynamic has been introduced in the LAC management. The area between Finger 8 and Finger 4 has been configured into a ‘no transgression’ area. If this mechanism works, it can be used to manage all areas where perceptions of LAC overlap betwee...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/evolution-of-quad-3-0-food-for-thought/February 13, 2021, 3:58 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/e68530e9_1647_P_3_mr-1.jpgOthersThe concept of a free and open Indo-Pacific can only be achieved through a strong Quad 3.0. As an extension, if Quad 3.0 must succeed it must have a clear-cut aim and a strategy to deal with China.https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/back-to-pakistani-blackmail-with-a-gun-to-us-head/February 10, 2021, 9:19 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/1c072bc4_1611_P_1_mr-1.jpgOthersIslamabad is back with a gun-to-its-head policy. It is clearly telling the US that unless the Biden Administration takes the Pakistani side, it will spoil the American game in Afghanistan, Indo-Pacific and elsewhere.https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/chinese-virus-indian-solution/January 29, 2021, 9:06 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/India-China-1.jpgOthersThe year 2021 is going to be a year of controlled aggression—against the PLA and the Chinese virus. It will do well for all of us to remember that it is only India which has pushed PLA back and it is only India which will push the Chinese virus back.https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/battlefield-energy-oil-of-space-and-rebalancing/January 28, 2021, 8:59 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/6351123e_1469_P_2_mr-1.jpgOthersHigh altitude operational areas and battlefields are energy guzzlers due to rarefied atmospheres, lack of oxygen and inefficient engines. Energy requirement of the battlefield will keep increasing with modernisation. Till now the single-point answ...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/the-big-sino-indian-logjam-after-the-winter-freeze/January 19, 2021, 3:48 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/652929e6_1373_P_1_mr-1.jpgOthersIt will be prudent to expect some friction and bluster to continue. It should also be clear that China will not vacate the areas occupied by it. Beyond that it is a wait-and-watch scenario. Anticipate and act on developments rather than react on e...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/pakistan-at-the-dawn-of-2021/January 18, 2021, 3:35 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/INDIA-PAK.jpgOthersA glance at some opinion pieces from the first three days of January 2021 of ‘Dawn’ shows there is little anti-India rant and in fact a sense a grudging admiration for the eastern neighbour. Sadly, Pakistani frustrations at not being India might f...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/looters-of-fifth-reich-in-pakistan/January 12, 2021, 3:12 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/d11a295d_1301_P_1_mr-1.jpgOthersPresent-day Pakistan is floundering under the ‘Looters of the Fifth Reich’. The current Reichmaster, General Qamar Bajwa, is ensuring that Pakistan plumbs new depths each day.https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/outlines-of-a-tibet-policy/January 7, 2021, 4:03 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/cdf2a72f_1245_P_1_mr-1.jpgOthersAmid the ongoing LAC standoff in eastern Ladakh, China needs to be shown a red card. And Tibet can be one, though one has to build it into a potent red card along with others. It will be a long haul for India. It should be a slow bleed for China.https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/india-and-us-should-pursue-the-needles-in-haystacks-policy/January 2, 2021, 3:56 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/535cdcfd_1191_P_1_mr-1.jpgOthersChina respects strength. It has tested India’s strength in Doklam and in eastern Ladakh. Despite its initial bluster and threats, it has been militarily stymied. Our military pushback has been followed by economic and digital strikes with more sto...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/chinas-strategic-miscalculation-war-avoidance-to-war-embracement/January 1, 2021, 3:57 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/0dda999f_1188_P_1_mr-1.jpgOthersFrom Deng Xiaoping’s strategy of war avoidance, China has switched to Xi Jinping’s model of expansionist unrestricted warfare. Will China exhaust itself in Xi’s multi-domain wars?https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/india-tibet-china-helpless-and-completely-tangled/December 30, 2020, 4:11 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/d2fd78a3_1146_P_1_mr-1.jpgOthersThe future course of the Sino-Tibet-India relations will largely be dictated by what the people of Tibet want and which way they swing. Also, any chance of change is only feasible if there is full support from India, US and Europe. So far all thre...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/india-tibet-and-china-the-way-forward/December 28, 2020, 4:41 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/4c86e815_1127_P_1_mr-1.jpgOthersOne sees a sinister Chinese expansionist plan which does not bode well for India. It needs a coordinated, consolidated and a sustained response since Indian sovereignty and integrity is at stake here. There should be no mistaking the danger India ...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/chinas-five-major-fault-lines/December 24, 2020, 6:16 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/china-300x169.pngOthersOne has to politically and diplomatically target the five instabilities of China—Taiwan, Tibet, Xinjian, Mongolia and Hong Kong—if it has to be contained for the greater good of the world as a whole.https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/lessons-to-learn-from-the-goldwater-nichols-act/December 22, 2020, 7:55 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/33de1f0b_1060_P_1_mr-2.jpgOthersWith Chinese forces refusing to leave their posts on India’s borders, it is time to take the matter of theatrisation seriously. For this, the political and military leadership would have to develop a more one-to-one relationship and jointness will...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/why-china-is-hitting-fast-forward-on-modernising-pla/December 10, 2020, 3:20 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/9be8d8e8_924_P_1_mr-1.jpgOthersBeijing’s recent bid to modernise the PLA speaks a lot of the nation’s goals, its strengths as well as its weaknesses. However, given the Dragon’s ruthless ambition, India should closely monitor its activities to develop appropriate strategies.https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/theaterisation-are-we-ready/December 2, 2020, 8:28 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/defence-us.jpgOthersBefore going ahead with the proposed move of creating theatre commands to increase ‘jointness’ between the Indian Army, Navy and Air Force, we need to resolve certain fundamental issues pertaining to the chain of command, communications, operation...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/the-chinese-media-soap-on-its-three-card-trick/November 30, 2020, 8:26 amOthersThe longer the virus lasts and the longer the PLA is kept on the battlefield of eastern Ladakh, China will keep losing strategically. The seeds of ‘containment of China’ are being sown in the frozen wastes of Chang Tang.https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/sino-indian-logjam-the-chinese-three-card-trick/November 26, 2020, 8:26 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/India-China.jpgOthersWe still need to secure further advantage in eastern Ladakh to break the logjam. The winter is our opportunity. This is the time for some engagement—direct or indirect—to destabilise PLA. The time for disengagement is far away. https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/propaganda-at-work-analysis-of-a-fake-microwave-oven-in-ladakh/November 21, 2020, 7:28 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Microwave.jpgOthersA Chinese professor claimed that PLA troops had turned two strategic hilltops occupied by Indian soldiers ‘into a microwave oven’, forcing them to retreat. This entire episode is a fake effort. It was probably tailored to spin a positive yarn to d...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/india-us-ties-are-strategic-and-not-personality-centric/November 16, 2020, 6:54 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Joe-Biden-1.jpgOthersThe trajectory of the India-US strategic partnership has risen with time and the bandwidth has also widened. Both countries are at a historical point where they must reinvent themselves for a better future. https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/the-global-order-is-broken-long-live-the-global-order/November 10, 2020, 4:51 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/ed9878f7_606_P_3_mr.jpgOthersSo far the global order was set by the Big Five monopolistically. Everyone followed suit. The order was based on circumstances of the last century. In current conditions, the Big Five are themselves struggling. https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/imrans-naya-pakistan-is-a-misnomer-with-anarchy-chaos-as-its-trademarks/November 6, 2020, 4:26 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/eb3ad65a_570_P_1_mr.jpgOthersIndia will have to deal with a Naya Pakistan that will remain China-backed. It will be aligned with the new ideological Islamic thinking from the Turkey and Malaysia axis. Pakistan will remain what it was: A state to be used and discarded. https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/indias-power-can-see-a-sea-change-if-it-dominates-the-seas/November 2, 2020, 5:48 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/9c2c1176_522_P_2_mr.jpgOthersIf we have to grow as a regional or global power, we must dominate the seas. We can do that by playing the maritime policeman’s role and by denying access to those inimical to us in our seas of interest—Bay of Bengal, Arabian Sea and part of India...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/how-dragon-has-become-the-main-driver-of-quad/October 27, 2020, 5:19 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/BeFunkyCollage-9.jpgOthersThe Quad is a work in progress. Currently it is an alignment hardening into an alliance without any treaty obligations. If China’s increasing threats lead to enhanced aggression against Taiwan or any other state, then the Quad will be the base on ...