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Pakistan's offensive against terrorists may have come just too late. Because today, violent Islamic extremism has spread across the country, and is not something that can be tackled by the army alone. But the tragedy of the killing of school children could be the opportunity for Pakistan to make that strategic shift away from using violent Islamic extremists against its neighbours.

In the Robert Frost poem the narrator¿s neighbour tells him ¿good fences make good neighbours,¿ but he asks, ¿Before I built a wall I'd ask to know/What I was walling in or walling out.¿ However, in the case of the barbed wire fence that has been constructed on the Line of Control (LoC) by the Indian army, no one appears to have asked this question.

Vasili Mitrokhin was born on March 3, 1922 in Yurasovo, in Central Russia. After completing his school education, he entered an artillery school of the Soviet army. While serving in the Army, he joined a university in Kazakhstan and graduated in History and Law.

It is well known that Xi Jinping is an avid reader because his speeches have often used quotes from Dickens, Victor Hugo and Paul Coelho. The very choice of the books has a meaning.

This brief discusses the status of Gorkhas who have joined the Russian Army and the Wagner Group as civilians, combatants, and mercenaries. Would Gorkhas, who otherwise constitute part of the regular armed forces in the United Kingdom and India, enjoy the same status if they join an ongoing conflict without entering into any bilateral agreement between the states? If not, what will the Gorkhas' status be under the prevailing international law reg

Much of the Indian budget is focused on the army, with the air force being a distant second and the navy a poor third.

While the opposition and his coalition partners will keep Imran Khan in check, Pakistan’s Army will call the shots

The defence budget is shrinking. The CDS can play a key role in ensuring the most efficient use of resources

Besides Osama bin Laden, Pakistan Army and ISI have been hand in glove with the Taliban for over 10 years, helping them with safe houses, recruitment bases, training and weapons. Their alliances have been effectively documented not only by the Indian security agencies but also by different western security and intelligence agencies.

तीन वर्षांच्या टूर ऑफ ड्युटी (TOD) च्या नवीन प्रस्तावावरून वाद निर्माण झाले आहेत. टीओडी हे भारतीय सैन्यात सुधारणा करण्याचे पहिले पाऊल ठरेल का?

The world too has dealt with different forms of terror in the past from Black September to Baader Meinhof and Red Army Faction, none is more dangerous an adversary than the Islamic jihadist who goes beyond semantic aberration.

Reports of incursions by the Chinese People’s Liberation Army along the Line-of-Actual Control (LAC) are rife in the Indian media. A commonly held opinion is that the Indian media tend to sensationalise their reportage of these incursions, or “China’s transgressions”, as the Indian government calls them. This paper analyses these incidents, as reported in select Indian newspapers, over a period of 12 years. It outlines the nature of these

In Pathankot and again in Uri, we have seen the perimeter breached too easily.

Bangladesh Foreign Minister Dr Dipu Moni recently declared that no US army base will be allowed in the country. Her assertion came after doubts were expressed about presence of US forces in Bangladesh.

But New Delhi's decision to send a contingent of the Indian Army for the September 1-7 Vostok 2022 military drill in Russia's far east has raised eyebrows, particularly in the West that is trying to isolate Moscow after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. This is a major exercise involving more than 50,000 troops and 5,000 weapons units, including 140 aircraft and 60 warships, with the participation of troops from China, India, Laos, Mongolia, Nicar

The December 16, 2014 attack on an Army run school in Peshawar by the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has caused global outrage. The attacks led to over 148 deaths of mostly children and some school staff.

For the last two years, not a week has gone by when the Chinese media, and the Global Times in particular, has not published disparaging articles about India.

Getting Pakistan to end the Kashmir conflict has been a difficult task, because Kashmir means many things to them. At one level, it is a cause that unites everyone in that country - the jihadis, the army and the civilian elite. At another, it provides it a means to maintain a hostile posture towards India, something necessary for its current sense of national identity.

Settle the border with India. With increasing US pressure, it is in China’s interest.

For the uninitiated, surgical strikes are limited and lightning fast incursions into enemy territory meant to neutralise tactical threats.

One of the key reasons for TTP's survival has been Pakistan's policy of using terrorist groups as instruments of state policy. Pakistan Army's protection of the Haqqani Network and the Afghan Taliban as ' strategic assets' helped TTP to retain its sanctuary and its attack capabilities.

Indian decision-makers appear to live in splendid isolation and do not recognise the importance of meetings like the Pacific Army Chiefs Conference. These meetings have become more institutionalised and are likely to gain greater momentum.

The Indian tendency to muddle through is likely to continue when it comes to counter-insurgency. The distance between the Army and its civilian masters is so gaping that advice, however enriched by experience and reflection, is likely to fall on deaf ears.

There is no reason to believe that things will be any different if now Modi goes to Islamabad.

India must ascertain if the US has a plan for Pak, and what it is

Pakistan and Afghanistan have agreed to form a joint commission to collaborate their efforts to reach a political solution to the Taliban insurgency. This was announced during the visit of Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and Army chief Gen Ashfaq Pervez Kayani to the Afghanistan capital of Kabul over the weekend.

Three months from now, President Pervez Musharraf will have to take a decision. He could decide to quit the post of the Chief of Army Staff-a position he has been holding for the past five years, the longest ever for a Pakistani General, perhaps longest ever for a General anywhere in the world during peace time. Or he could decide to stay put.

As someone who started wearing uniform 56 years ago and then saw life from a cadet in the Academy to the Chief of the Army Staff, I feel disappointed with the unfair manner in which the whole issue of women in the Army has been dealt with in public.

Even today, the Army continues to be organised on the basis of regional, linguistic, caste and religious affiliations. Nearly 70 years since Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose raised combat units in which personnel from all over India served together, it is time that our Armed Forces seriously consider these issues of regionalism, ethnicity and deployment of women in combat roles.

हालिया अमेरिका यात्रा के दौरान यूक्रेनी राष्ट्रपति वोलोदिमीर जेलेंस्की ने गर्व से कहा कि यूक्रेन जिंदा है और कभी समर्पण नहीं करेगा.

आपण नवी लष्करी रचना करण्याच्या वाटेवर असताना, अफगाणिस्तान आणि इराकमधील आपत्तींमधून धडे शिकण्याची गरज आहे.

एफएटीएफ ने आतंकी फंडिंग व मनी लांड्रिंग मामलों पर अंकुश लगाने के प्रयासों को घटिया करार दिया है. आइए जानते हैं कि पाकिस्तान और एफएटीएफ के बीच बड़ी बाधा क्या है. इसके साथ यह भ

चीन द्वारा बीजिंग में आयोजित शीतकालीन ओलंपिक आयोजन में गलवान संघर्ष से जुड़े एक सैनिक को सुनियोजित ढंग से खेलों की मशाल थमाने के बाद तो भारत का धैर्य भी जवाब दे गया और उसने �

भारत के लिए, राष्ट्रपति के तौर पर ट्रंप की वापसी भारत – अमेरिकी संबंधों में एक नए अध्याय की शुरुआत साबित हो सकती है.

भारतीय लष्करात हळूहळू आधुनिकतेकडे वाटचाल करत आहे. सायबर सक्षमता निर्माण करण्याच्या दिशेने देखील भारतीय लष्कर पावले उचलत आहे.

अगर चीन शक्ति प्रदर्शन के जरिए ताइवान का स्टेटस बदलता है तो हिंद प्रशांत पर तो इसका प्रभाव होगा ही, उससे बड़ा प्रभाव इसका ग्लोबल ऑर्डर पर पड़ेगा.

ताइवान बनाम चीन ऐसे में सवाल यह उठता है कि आखिर ताइवान ने अपनी सुरक्षा के लिए क्या रणनीति बनाई है. आखिर वह किस महाविनाशक हथियारों के दम पर चीन को चुनौती देता है. आइए जानते हैं

तिबेटमध्ये चीनचा वाढता हस्तक्षेप तिबेटी लोकजीवन व धर्मासोबतच तिथल्या लोकांच्या अभिव्यक्ती व स्थानिक संस्कृतीदेखील दडपशाहीच्या छायेत आहे.

पाकिस्तान को यदि मौजूदा चुनौतियों से निपटना है तो उन सुधारों का सूत्रपात करना होगा, जो उसे आवश्यक स्थायित्व एवं संतुलन प्रदान करने की ओर ले जाएं.

कोणत्याही धर्माचा पुरस्कार न करण्याच्या निर्धार करून जन्मलेल्या बांगलादेशात धर्मनिरपेक्षता परागंदाच राहिली. आता तर धर्मातिरेकींचा प्रभाव वाढत चालला आहे.

इम्रान खान आणि पाकिस्तानी सैन्य हे आता तितके बलशाली राहिलेले नाहीत, हे खान यांनी कितीही अमान्य केले तरी ती काळ्या दगडावरील पांढरी रेघ असणार आहे.

हल्ली भारतीय लष्कर पाकव्याप्त काश्मीर कसे पुन्हा ताब्यात घेऊ शकते, याच्या कल्पनारम्य कथा रंगविल्या जात आहेत. पण इतिहासात डोकावले की कळते, हे घडणे अवघड आहे.

सत्‍ता से हटने के बाद इमरान खान लगातार सुर्खियों में हैं. विपक्ष में रहते हुए बिना मुद्दा के वह अपनी राजनीति कैसे चमकाएं उनका पूरा फोकस इस पर है. यहीं कारण है कि वह समय-समय पर

पाकिस्तानची शोकांतिका अशी आहे की राज्ययंत्रणेत एकही तटस्थ मध्यस्थ उरलेला नाही - न्यायव्यवस्था नाही, राष्ट्रपती नाही, अगदी पाकिस्तानी लष्करही नाही.

ट्रोइका - राष्ट्रपती, पंतप्रधान आणि लष्करप्रमुख - यांच्यातील परस्परसंबंध पाकिस्तानची राजकीय व्यवस्था बिघडवतात .

पाकिस्तानात सध्या जी परिस्थिती आहे, ती चिघळली तर, असे वाटते की, २०२१ हे वर्ष संपण्याआधीच इम्रान खान यांची सत्ता संपुष्टात आलेली असेल.