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Shaping Strategies for Space Encounters - An Assessment
August 14 , 2019 Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM
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Brief Premise This article flows out from the following three developments that took place in the recent past”:- On 27 Mar 2019, India conducted Mission Shakti, an anti satellite missile test destroyi...

Technological and Scientific Studies

Tags : Harnessing space , India’s satellite assets , India’s space ventures

दहनशील खाड़ी में संकट
August 13 , 2019 Amb K P Fabian
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हम खाड़ी संकट को तेज गति से बढ़ता हुआ देख रहे हैं, जिससे यहां जंग छिड़ सकती है। इसका दुष्परिणाम इस क्षेत्र एवं पूरी दुनिया के लिए अनियंत्रित और संभवत: भयावह हो सकता है। दुखद यह है कि इस संकट को टालने के...

International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Hindi , अमेरिका-ईरान-ब्रिटेन विवाद , खाड़ी संकट , होर्मुज के जलडमरूमध्य में नौवहन

Britain does a ‘Britain’ as Europe Dithers like ‘Europe’
August 12 , 2019 Rajesh Soami
Article Views: 2712
The European Union (EU) has been labouring hard to prove that it is serious about carrying more political heft in the world. Statements emanating from Brussels have made all the right noises in this dir...

Europe, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Brexit and EU , EU unity vs administration , UK Navy in Persian Gulf

From Sanctions to Submarines - Myanmar, July 2019
August 12 , 2019 Jaideep Chanda
Article Views: 2852
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: 5487
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: 2634
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

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