http://councilforstrategicaffairs.blogspot.com/2015/10/chinas-ocean-hegemony-and-implications.html The fifth generation of CCP leadership under Xi Jinping has de facto abandoned the Deng doctrine of keeping low profile internationally. China has become more ambitious of becoming a superpower and has been extending its sovereignty claims on the land and the sea. As a rising…
Does India’s nuclear doctrine need a revision? Oct 12, 2015 Dr. Adityanjee http://councilforstrategicaffairs.blogspot.com/2015/10/does-indias-nuclear-doctrine-need.html India’s first nuclear test in 1974 called smiling Buddha in Pokhran desert was, for tactical reasons, characterized as “Peaceful Nuclear Explosion”. The second series of five nuclear tests in 1998 (Pokhran II)…
MR. PRIME MINISTER MODI, AWARD BHARAT RATNA TO ATAL Independent India knows how to slight, insult and forget her historic icons! We did it with Netaji Subhash, Sardar Patel & Dr. BR. Ambedkar. We choose to call Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev as terrorists in government approved…
INVIGORATING IBSA; INVENTING IIBSAA DR. ADITYANJEE http://councilforstrategicaffairs.blogspot.com/2013/05/invigorating-ibsa-inventing-iibsaa.html Introduction: The post-mortem reports of the recently held 5th BRICS summit from March 26th-27th 2013 have already been written and forgotten. On June 6th 2013, India is hosting the next IBSA summit. As early as 2011, this analyst had predicted…
No First Use Nuclear Doctrine with “Chinese Characteristics” Dr. Adityanjee http://www.vifindia.org/article/2013/may/02/no-first-use-nuclear-doctrine-with-chinese-characteristics http://www.councilforstrategicaffairs.blogspot.com/2013/05/no-first-use-nuclear-doctrine-with.html IntroductionLike a chameleon, the dragon, very predictably is changing its colors with regards to its often stated nuclear doctrine of “no first use” (NFU). Since 1964 when China conducted its first nuclear weapon test, China…
SHOULD THE MANDARIN SPEAKING NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR RESIGN? DR.ADITYANJEE http://councilforstrategicaffairs.blogspot.com/2013/05/should-mandarin-speaking-national.html There was a Pakistani intrusion into Indian territory in 1999 in Kargil in J&K. It was considered as an intelligence failure of Himalayan proportions. Post-Kargil, an expert committee was appointed by the then Prime Minister Atal Bihari…
The Dragon Covets the Arctic by Dr. A. Adityanjee http://councilforstrategicaffairs.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-dragon-covets-arctic.html http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14232 China’s lust for oil, minerals, rare earths, fish and desire for an alternative northern sea route boils the Arctic Geopolitics! Introduction: Iceland is a small, sparsely populated island nation with a population of only 320,000 and…
Securitisation of the BRICS A Adityanjee http://councilforstrategicaffairs.blogspot.com/2013/03/securitisation-of-brics.html http://www.claws.in/index.php?action=master&task=1337&u_id=144 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14207 Since independence India has traditionally shied away from joining security based pacts or military blocks. Chanting the same mantra, India refused to join ASEAN when membership of the ASEAN was being offered to India as a founding member….
So-Called Spring; Su-Shi Strife and The South-West Asia by Dr. A. Adityanjee http://councilforstrategicaffairs.blogspot.com/2013/03/so-called-spring-su-shi-strife-and.html http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14117 Arab Spring, Arab Winter, Arab Summer, Arab Renaissance, Arab Awakening, Islamic Awakening and Islamic Rise are just few of the epithets used to describe the complex and multidimensional geopolitical changes in the middle-east…
INDIA-US TANGO: PART-TIME LOVERS! BY DR. A. ADITYANJEE The third India-US strategic dialogue finished this month in Washington, DC generating a multi-dimensional array of bilateral cooperation agreements, favorable atmospherics and genuine mutual understanding. Described in the heady days of of former Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee, as…
