CSC: Future Wars and India’s Multi-domain Preparedness, Kasauli’s Strategic Seminar Highlights Challenges
Present on the occasion, apart from the distinguished speakers, were the GOC-in-C Central Command, Gen Sengupta; GOC Uttar Bharat, Gen Mishra; GOC 14 Inf Div Gen Gunjan, and Chairman, Kasauli Club, Brig Sandeep Madan. On behalf of the Strategic Studies Cell, Lt. General Kamal Davar, said for him as a veteran and an old member […]
Trump❤️Munir: Why & What It Means
When Gen Asim Munir landed in Tehran on Wednesday, armed with an American truce offer, he was following up on the weekend’s 21 hours of direct US-Iran negotiations, held in Islamabad – the most substantive bilateral engagement between Washington and Tehran, since the severing of diplomatic relations, in 1979. That Pakistan provided both a venue and diplomatic channel for […]
New doctrines, old dangers
One year after Op Sindoor, India’s new normal faces Pakistan’s new abnormal — putting a fragile truce at risk On the anniversary of the 2025 summer skirmish with Pakistan, India can claim to have forged a credible new doctrine of counterterrorism and controlled escalation in a nuclear neighbourhood. The 88-hour conflict, triggered by the Pahalgam […]
I was Given 72 hours to Leave Pakistan: A High Commissioner’s Story
August 2019 brought one of the sharpest disruptions in India-Pakistan relations as India revoked Article 370, which had granted special status to Jammu and Kashmir. The move rattled Islamabad, sparking hurried diplomacy and an atmosphere thick with speculation. Here, Ajay Bisaria, then India’s High Commissioner to Pakistan, recounts the emotional weight and professional turbulence of […]
ANI: Op Sindoor set new benchmarks in military tactics, established India’s posture of assured kinetic response to cross-border terrorism: Experts
It was a year India showed its military might, its technological prowess, the capability of its indigenous platforms and its resolve of zero tolerance to terrorism as it gave a befitting reply to Pakistan after the Pahalgam terror attack, forcing the western neighbour to seek a ceasefire. India struck terror infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan-Occupied […]
Dictator Next Door
Asim Munir’s power grab in Pakistan makes South Asia a more dangerous neighbourhood. The Pak military is no longer a state within a state. It is the state Yesterday’s attack on the Peshawar headquarters of Pakistan’s Federal Constabulary that killed three security personnel exemplifies the chaos engulfing that country. But the Pakistani leadership appears keen […]
Excerpt: The Great India Game
Narendra Singh Sarila was an aide-de-camp (ADC) to Governor General Mountbatten before he joined the 1948 batch of India’s foreign service and went on to serve for thirty-seven years as an Indian diplomat. In his book on the ‘untold story’ of India’s Partition, Sarila emphasized a thesis that has since gathered wider support based on […]
Sindoor’s New Red Lines Are Drawn
When LeT terrorists struck in Kashmir on 22 April, Pakistan had effectively jumped on the first rung of a familiar conflict escalation ladder. It did so with implausible deniability of its role. But this time was different. The two countries climbed perilously higher into conflict than they had done ever before in this century. Between […]
CSC: The One BIG Takeaway
What’s the single takeaway from each of our panelists? Summing up, individually, how do we feel, what’s the most important understanding from this discussion? Ambassador Ajay Bisaria: By way of answering your question and a partial summary of this very interesting discussion on our neighbourhood, what is emerging is that we are in a very […]
CSC: In Our Immediate Neighbourhood: What’s Simmering?
Navin Berry: Last few months, we’ve had quite a few startling revelations, so to say. We find that South Asia; we thought we were the dominant power within our South Asian region. Now we begin to see that China is also in South Asia. So, is that true? How the South Asian scene has changed? […]