With the US shooting down a fourth unidentified object over US airspace on 11 Feb 2023, it has been an unprecedented week or so for NORAD and the homeland defence. Among the four objects that have been brought down is the well publicised Chinese ball....
Introduction The Philippines is on a diplomatic overdrive. There seems to be cracks in the ASEAN unity. The 10-member bloc is not in the same page on a host of issues. Cambodia is suspected to have succumbed to the Chinese temptation of e....
Tags : Article , ASEAN , military base , SDF , Spratly Islands , Palawan , medium-range missiles , VFA , EDCA , Marcos Jr.
The Middle Kingdom and Its War against Religion: A Historical Perspective When speaking to military students at Nankai University in 2013, Chinese professor Ai Yuejin said the following: “Do you know what the foundation for our nati....
Tags : Article , China , Buddhism , Dalai Lama , religion , Demography , Tibet , Xinjiang , Human Rights , Hans
India’s ascendancy as UNSecurity Council President in December 2022 for the second time in a span of only fifteen months remarkably reflect its growing global recognition as a formidable and credible power that is committed to strengthen the tenets....
Tags : Article , NATO , UN Security Council , Multilateralism , World Order , Russia-Ukraine War
Indonesia assumed the chairmanship of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) after in 2023 and hosted its first major meeting of the group’s Foreign Ministers at the ASEAN Secretariat on 3 February 2023 on a slew of issues affecting the....
Tags : Article , ASEAN , Tatmadaw , military Junta , strategic relevance , Six-Point Consensus , Tourism conference
One of our most serious problems today is defining what war is. Historically, war and warfare have rigid definitions, and national security and military doctrines, the capabilities and structures are designed to respond to those definitions. Wars wer....
Tags : Article , LAC , Sun Tzu , no war no peace , Grey Zone warfare
After adopting a path-breaking measure to rearm Japan in December 2022 in the wake of North Korean threat and China’s belligerence, Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida undertook a six-day, five nation tour starting with 8 January 2023 that took ....
Tags : Article , Taiwan Straits , Fumio Kishida , NPT Review Conference , Defense build-up , G-7 summit , Reciprocal Access Agreement , Indo-Pacific paradigm
As the year 2022 ended, here is a brief recap of what happened in Africa over the past year. Most African countries were still battling to recover from the pandemic when the year began. However, a series of disruptions, such as supply shortages and s....
Tags : Article , democracy , Climate Change , Africa , election , COVID-19 , AfCFTA , Military Coup , Scramble for Africa , Islamist terrorism , Horn of Africa , COP27 , Sahel
India at 75 is not what it was during the Cold War, striving to preserve autonomy of national action between two hostile politico-military blocs. Those blocs are gone. At the World Economic Forum in Davos recently, captains of industry and ....
Tags : Article , World economic forum , WEF
China Factor: A Seven Decades Old Dispute Debated on Packets of Information In recent times - especially after the Galwan incident of 15 June 2020, Sino Indian border dispute is the most intensely debated topic in Indian media. The cont....
Tags : Article , Aksai Chin , Sino-India border disputes , Depsang Plains , Annexation of Tibet , Kongka incident