Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Wed, 09/26/2018 - 08:51
Paper No. 6430 Dated 26-Sept-2018
By Dr Subhash Kapila
In the closing months of 2018, the Middle East security environment presents the spectacle of an intense power struggle going on among the major regional powers like Iran, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Israel besides the geopolitical and military involvement of the traditional external powers like the United States and China that compulsively get drawn into Middle East regional conflicts on opposing sides.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Thu, 09/06/2018 - 13:12
Paper No. 6422 Dated 6-Sept-2018
By Dr Subhash Kapila
China’s Maritime Silk Road projects underway in the last two years emerges as a direct strategic and military challenge to the Indo Pacific Security Template adopted by the United States, India and Japan as it aims to establish a China-dominated maritime grid spanning the maritime global commons of the South China Sea and the Indian Ocean region.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Wed, 08/29/2018 - 01:34
Paper No. 6416 : Dated 29-Aug-2018
By Dr Subhash Kapila
China’s political reachout to India, markedly in 2018, needs necessarily to be analysed in the context of the increasing China-US Trade War. Chinese present reachout to India is transactional and not incorporated in China’s Grand Strategy and India would be well advised not to make things easier for China by siding with it by perceptional proximity to China against the United States.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Sun, 08/26/2018 - 09:56
Paper No. 6415 Dated 26-Aug-2018
By R.M. Panda
The situation in Afghanistan is confusing with the interference of all major powers who pursue their own agenda and their strategic interests. The beleaguered Afghan Government that has been legitimately elected has been fighting on all fronts and doing its best.
