NEW DELHI: It’s well known that India and China have differing perceptions about where the Line of Actual Control (LAC) lies. But amid the ongoing standoff in eastern Ladakh, China has renewed a claim it made over 60 years ago—that it is following the line put forth by its then premier Zhou Enlai in 1959. […]Read More
NEW DELHI: With the current India-China standoff in eastern Ladakh showing signs of extending into winter, what does the Indian army do by way of preparation at a place where winter could mean temperatures dipping to 40 degrees below freezing point? At the super-high altitudes of Ladakh, winter that’s just around the corner is no […]Read More
NEW DELHI: It’s one of the glorious chapters in India’s military history. Five years after suffering a defeat at the hands of China, India hit back hard at the border pass of Nathu La in 1967. It’s a story of courage and determination and what a determined leadership can do. In many ways, it laid […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Before May this year, Ladakh was more popular among bikers and tourists. A high altitude desert, Ladakh’s stark beauty with its vast open spaces, pristine blue skies and spectacular water bodies like Pangong Tso and Tso Moriri, attracted tourists from all over the country and abroad, especially after the climax of the popular […]Read More
NEW DELHI: It’s the longest running insurgency in Asia and negotiations have been on for over two decades now, yet a peace deal remains elusive for Naga insurgent groups. The issue (of Naga sovereignty) has been alive since India’s Independence and the ‘struggle’ led to the creation of smaller states from the undivided state of […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa says he’s “happy and satisfied” with the results of the parliamentary elections in which people have voted overwhelmingly in favour of the Rajapaksas-led (elder brother and former President Mahinda Rajapaksa is now Prime Minister) Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna(SLPP) party. In Simply Nitin this week, StratNews Global Editor-in-Chief Nitin A. […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Next week, it will be one year since India scrapped Article 370 and bifurcated J&K into two union territories. Pakistan has tried hard to make it an international issue but failed. August 5 is also the day when India got wind of Pakistan’s move to wrest J&K in 1965. If the adversary had […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Is the Chinese aggression along the Line of Actual Control in Ladakh a manifestation of a larger game played along the geopolitical fault lines in the Himalayas? Instances of cartographic aggression by China and Pakistan against India have been on since the 1960s. In 1963, Pakistan ceded Shaksgam Valley (that’s part of Pakistan […]Read More
NEW DELHI: China and Pakistan are two prickly neighbours India has, countries with which India has boundary-related problems. But border trouble on India’s eastern frontier is quite different from the one to the west. The Line of Control (LoC) is part of 3323 km Indo-Pak border. It’s active, violent and has been a preferred infiltration […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The process of de-escalation may have begun along the LAC but India is not letting its guard down. The Indian Air Force is conducting sorties in the area both for surveillance and to let the message across that it’s ready, just in case. When it comes to the use of air power, how does […]Read More
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