Australian Defence Forces: An Assessment
The FORCE 2020 document was a vision document for Australian defence forces released in 2002 that aimed to look ahead at the challenges of the 21st century and prepare the ADF as a “force...
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Role of Turkey and Russia in Nagorno Karabakh conflict and implications for India
Clashes have erupted in Armenia and Azerbaijan over two and a half decades-long conflict in Nagorno Karabakh in late September. Hundreds have been killed and thousands displaced in recent fighting since Baku and Yerevan...
Pakistan and Bangladesh: A See-Saw Relationship
“History is past politics and politics is present history”, this quotation perfectly summarises the deeply intertwined relationship between history and politics; It is certainly not possible to understand one without taking into account other....
Jeopardy in Jaffna
Former President of the United States of America Dwight D. Eisenhower had once quoted, “If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and...
The Pink Triangle: Then Symbol of Barbarousness and Today’s PRIDE
In the year 1933-1945 Nazi Germany adopted the extreme form of anti-homosexual repression. During that period, the position of Hitler and the Nazis on the homosexuals went through drastic changes. In the initial year...
Analysing India’s Maritime Profile
Maritime power is the ability of the nation to use the seas to safeguard and progress its national interests. India has a rich maritime heritage and the earliest regard to maritime activities is contained...
Covid-19 And The Turbulent History Of Globalization
There is perhaps no time like the present for reflecting on globalization, the buzzword of the century, but a word that may now be under threat. For example, China showed that global trade and...
Political rhetoric has no place in Diplomacy
Political rhetoric may be all right in domestic politics, but certainly not right in diplomacy/international relations when the country is facing two powerful and nuclear weaponised sworn enemies from two sides with long borders...
Highway to Hegemony or Harmony?
Xi Jinping and the Central National Security Commission of the Communist Party of China In February of 2020, Xi Jinping added biosecurity to the portfolio of responsibilities of China’s Central National Security Commission (CNSC)...
Indian COAS and Foreign Secretary’s visit to Myanmar
With elections around the corner, India’s visit to Myanmar goes beyond strategic motives. The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), General MM Naravane along with Foreign Secretary (FS) Harsh Vardhan Shringla visited the eastern neighbour,...
