Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Tue, 04/23/2019 - 09:14
Paper No. 6530 Dated 23-April-2019
By Dr Subhash Kapila
The Indian Republic to attain and sustain the status of a credible predominant military power in South Asia and to ascend the aspirational ladder of emerging as a Major Global Power needs a 2 million strong Indian Army. Any advocacy in political, strategic and military hierarchy circles to downsize the Indian Army from its present levels of 1.3 million is strategically imprudent and negates India’s national aspirations.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Mon, 05/22/2017 - 06:34
Paper No. 6260 Dated 22-May-2017
By Dr. Subhash Kapila
The Indian Republic faces today a hostile military environment with two of its major military threats having coalesced raising spectre of war at short notice which thus militates against any tinkering with existing operational “Commands “of the three Services.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Mon, 10/10/2016 - 07:16
Paper No. 6181 Dated 10-Oct-2016
By Dr Subhash Kapila
India’s surgical strikes into Pakistan has not only been a game-changer for India’s strategic assertions but as an unintended consequence stirred more notably a domestic debate within Pakistan on its ISI-sponsored Jihadi terrorist outfits and Kashmir.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Thu, 12/18/2014 - 05:55
Paper No. 5845 Dated 18-Dec-2014
By Col. R. Hariharan
[Based on excerpts from an interview in a TV channel beamed on the occasion of ‘Vijaya Divas’ on December 16, 2014.]
Q: On the occasion of the Victory Day commemorating India’s victory in the 1971 India-Pakistan War, what are your thoughts in general?
