By N. C. Bipindra for EurAsian Times This year marks the tenth year of the People’s Republic of China’s $1.4 trillion Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), Xi Jinping’s ambitious project to connect Asia, Africa, and Europe, a supposed ‘21st century silk road.’ However, the project is viewed with […]
(Editor’s Note: In arrangement with Defence Research and Studies, a Kochi-based think-tank) By Colonel (Dr) N. K. Chhibber The Great Game conceptualised a policy of “buffer zones between the expansionist forces”, in the instant case Russia and British India. Russian southward expansion was intended to be halted somewhere […]
(Editor’s Note: Updated on Sep. 11 with additional background information throughout the report, filed originally on Sep. 10.) By N. C. Bipindra New Delhi: Already interoperable through the annual joint Malabar maritime exercise with Japan, India has expanded its strategic reach in the Indo-Pacific by signing a logistic […]
(Editor’s Note: Opinions expressed are that of the writer’s) By Lieutenant Colonel Manoj K. Channan Since evolution, man has always been fighting a bitter battle for survival. Be it nature, wildlife, fellow human beings and now the minuscule and deadly Coronavirus. From stones to bones and the advent […]
By N. C. Bipindra The world is at present obsessed with, rightly so, the fight against the Coronavirus, with suspicion and rumours of it being a bio-weapon. In this fight against the virus that has claimed hundreds of thousands of human lives, the world”s attention to another major […]
By Roby Thomas After spending a day at sea on board INS Vikramaditya, on Sep. 29, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh conveyed the essence of sea power by referring to the aircraft carrier as the “Sikandar of Samundar” (emperor of the seas). This statement assumes significance in the context […]