The Guns Of Kyapho & Ptso. In a documentary series, ‘Along The China Front: Commanding The Tawang Heights’, Part IV, we travel from Tawang to the Kyapho model border post along the Tibet border. We also document the Pankang Teng Tso or PTSO Lake area. In addition, we get a glimpse of the Indian Army’s […]Read More
India’s infra thrust to Ladakh to counter the China, and Pakistan two-front threat. India’s military is in the fourth winter of its advanced forward deployment against China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) forces along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh. China’s renewed aggression in 2020 led to the deadly Galwan clashes in June […]Read More
The Siachen Glacier is a critical, strategic triangle that India has wedged between Pakistan and China. That happened in April 1984, when India foiled Pakistan’s preparations to militarily occupy the Siachen Glacier. The surprise move pre-empted the Pakistan Army’s Operation Ababeel. In fact, this year, 2024, is the 40th anniversary of Operation Meghdoot. Given that, […]Read More
The deadly June 2020 Galwan clashes, between the Indian and Chinese armies, have changed the rules of the strategic game in terms of India’s foreign policy and military posture. As a result, Post Galwan, China’s PLA failed in two more incursion attempts in Yangtse, Tawang sector in western Arunachal Pradesh at the other extremity of […]Read More
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has inaugurated the strategic Sela Tunnel in Arunachal Pradesh along the China Front. Watch an excerpt from our episode, ‘ Crossing The Sela Heights: The Roads To Tawang, Much Light At The End Of Game-changing Tunnels‘. You can also watch the series, ‘Along The China Front: Commanding The Tawang Heights‘. It […]Read More
Siachen Glacier: Strategic Significance for India. A special on-the-ground report from the Siachen Glacier. Don’t miss it. ‘The Himalayan Frontier‘. Part IX. On March 8, 2024, at 7 PM IST. In this episode, explaining the Siachen Glacier and its strategic significance for India, a StratNews team of Amitabh P. Revi, Rohit Pandita, and Karan Marwaha […]Read More
The Indian Air Force’s Leh base, the challenge from the China and Pakistan two-front threat, protecting India’s borders from Chinese aggression and preserving Tibet’s Buddhism from Chinese repression is the subject of this documentary. In ‘The Himalayan Frontier’ Part VII here’s a look at Shakti & Shanti (Power & Peace) in Ladakh. We record a […]Read More
Why is the NPD Road critical in Ladakh for the Northern borders with China and Pakistan? In ‘The Himalayan Frontier’, Part IV, we complete our journey to Leh on the strategic third, alternate axis—the Darcha-Padam-Nimu (NPD) Road, which we started in episode III. This episode has 200,000 + views on February, 25, 2024. The route provides critical […]Read More
A ground report from along the Burma border in Arunachal Pradesh: Pangsau Pass To Vijaynagar. Defence & security along the Burma border in Arunachal Pradesh is the focus of this documentary, from the Burma border in Arunachal Pradesh. StratNews Global travels along the Myanmar border in eastern Arunachal Pradesh from Pangsau Pass to Vijaynagar. In […]Read More
How is the Indian Air Force dealing with the two-front China and Pakistan threat in Ladakh? “The way to deal with these two fronts is by better tactics, by better deployments”, Air Commodore D.S. Handa, Air Officer Commanding (AoC), Air Force Station (AFS) Leh says. In this exclusive interview, in front of a Mig-29, at […]Read More
A day in the life of Indian Air Force (IAF) Air Warriors at the Indian Air Force Station (AFS), Leh in Ladakh that is in the frontline of dealing with the two-front China and Pakistan threat. Dont Miss ‘The Himalayan Front’, Part VII on Saturday, February 17, 2024. Continuing our series, a StratNews Global team […]Read More
India’s China, Pak Ladakh Front; an exclusive interview with Lt Gen Raghu Srinivasan, the Director General of the Border Roads Organisation (BRO), filmed in Chiling, Ladakh. “Making a road is a measure of a nation’s sovereignty. It exercises command and control, and it says that these are my people”, Lt Gen Srinivasan says of the critical […]Read More
Across The ‘Chadar’ Trail on the Zanskar River, Ladakh: An Exclusive Interview with Lt. General Raghu Srinivasan, Director General, Border Roads Organisation (BRO). Don’t Miss ‘The Himalayan Frontier’, Part V on February 2, 2024, at 7 PM IST. The DG speaks to StratNews Global’s Amitabh P. Revi across the ‘Chadar’ Trail on the Zanskar River […]Read More
Don’t Miss part IV of our series ‘The Himalayan Frontier’, Strategic Third Axis To Leh, premiering on January 26, 2024. We document India’s infrastructural development in Eastern Ladakh to deal with Beijing’s aggression in the border dispute along the China-occupied Tibet border or the Line of Actual Control. Alternate axes are significant in also dealing with […]Read More
The India and China Border Dispute and the Pakistan Threat in Ladakh: Don’t Miss part III of our series ‘The Himalayan Frontier’, premiering on January 19, 2024. We document India’s infrastructural push in Eastern Ladakh to deal with Xi Jinping’s aggression in the border dispute along the China-occupied Tibet border or the LAC. Alternate axes […]Read More
The Himalayan Frontier: documenting the China and Pakistan two-front threat. A series of ground reports and interviews with the Chiefs of the Army Staff, Air Force, and Border Roads Organisations (BRO) on all three military service operations in Eastern Ladakh and Siachen. Only on StratNews Global. Our Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Nitin Gokhale interviews General Manoj […]Read More
Find out about the strategic significance of Vijaynagar, described as the Northeast’s ‘Siachen”. In the second of our series, ‘East of the Northeast’, Lieutenant General P.C. Nair, Director General, Assam Rifles is in conversation with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi in Vijaynagar, one of the easternmost inhabited areas in India. The head of […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The Taliban claim to have captured their first provincial capital in Afghanistan after U.S. President Joe Biden announced the withdrawal of foreign troops on April 14. The reported fall of Zaranj, capital of the southern Nimroz province, is symbolic and significant. It’s the main land route connecting Iran’s Chabahar port with Afghanistan and […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Consultations are on at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) for an emergency session on Afghanistan. India assumed the rotational UNSC presidency for a month on August 1. On Tuesday, Afghan Foreign Minister Haneef Atmar spoke to India’s External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on the issue saying, the “UN and the international community […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Add another name to the list of Indian Americans on Team Biden: Puneet Talwar. He was a top adviser for 12 years when Biden was a senator, was part of the group that put together the nuclear deal with Iran and advised former president Obama on West Asia. He now joins Zalmay Khalilzad […]Read More