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Did India Change Its Nuclear Doctrine? Much Ado About Nothing
Eurasia Review
Brig (Retd) Gurmeet Kanwal's remarks in Nuclear CBMs and Risk Reduction
Measures in South Asia, Center for Land Warfare Studies, September 12,
2010. ...
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Delhi raises defence spending by 11.6 per cent
The Express Tribune
Gurmeet Kanwal, who heads the government-funded Centre for Land Warfare
Studies, said the defence allocation was enough to proceed with the fighter
aircraft ...
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Experts dismayed at Indian response to West Asian crises Tehelka
Brigadier Gurmeet Kanwal, director of the army's think tank, Centre of Land
Warfare Studies, fears that the Kashmir situation remains volatile and ...
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Gulf News
Simmering
rows threaten to flareup
The year 2010 ended on a positive note from the point of view of
international peace and stability
- By Nilima Pathak, Correspondent
- Published: 00:00 December 31, 2010
New Delhi: The year 2010 ended on a positive note from the point of view of
international peace and stability. While it is hoped the New Year remains
turmoil free and brings in more cheer, experts are of the opinion that
turbulence will continue globally, yet diplomatic relations will become
increasingly multi-faceted.
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In pictures: Major global events in 2010
Gurmeet Kanwal, Director, Centre for Land Warfare Studies, New Delhi, is of
the opinion that the ratification by the US Senate of the new Strategic Arms
Reduction Treaty (Start) treaty will further reduce deployed strategic
nuclear weapons of Russia and the US to 1,550 in seven years.
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How India's Cold Start is Turning the Heat on Pakistan
OpEdNews
... break his cohesion, and paralyze him into making mistakes from which he
will not be able to recover," says Indian strategic analyst Gurmeet Kanwal.
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Why South Asia Loves Peacekeeping | The Diplomat
By David Axe
While freedom of expression must be allowed to all authors, The Diplomat
should be more diligent in vetting the articles that it publishes,
especially those that cast aspersions on a nation's policies. Brigadier
Gurmeet Kanwal (Retd). ...
The Diplomat
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IntelliBriefs: US' Af-Pak Policy and India's Concerns
By Naxal Watch
Gurmeet Kanwal
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India should seek a regional solution to the Afghan conflict with the help of China,
Iran and Russia. ...
IntelliBriefs
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ITwitter / pragmatic_desi: Gurmeet Kanwal quotes serv ...
Gurmeet Kanwal quotes service chiefs on Op Parakram:
[LT: @ aditi_malhotra_ ] What Jaswant Singh said: |
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India links Siachen demilitarisation to progress on Mumbai attacks
The News International
Former chief secretary Ashok Jaitley, General Ashok Mehta and Brigadier
Gurmeet Kanwal represented India at the talks while General Hamid Khan, ... |
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India may discuss Siachen, Creek if Pak makes progress in 26/11 ...
Expressindia.com
Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Secretary Ashok Jaitley and security
analysts Ashok Mehta and Gurmeet Kanwal represented India at the talks
while General ... |
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Indian plan to deter Pakistan more myth than reality
Emirates 24/7
Retired Indian army brigadier Gurmeet Kanwal who heads the Centre for Land
Warfare Studies in New Delhi says the doctrine was essentially an attempt
to ... |
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Gurmeet
Kanwal
Indian military's plan to deter Pakistan more myth than
reality
Deccan Herald
9 December 2010
Retired
Indian army brigadier Gurmeet Kanwal who heads the Centre for
Land Warfare Studies in New Delhi says the doctrine was essentially
an attempt to address the problem of mobilisation of the 1.1
million-strong army. It is also aimed at taking the battle into
Pakistan.
"It is essentially a pro-active deterrence strategy with the
clear implication that the Indian armed forces will take the
initiative and the next war in the plains will be fought in
the adversary's territory," he said. |
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How India's Cold Start is Turning the Heat on Pakistan
OpEdNews
... break his cohesion, and paralyze him into making mistakes from which he
will not be able to recover," says Indian strategic analyst Gurmeet Kanwal.
...
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Why South Asia Loves Peacekeeping | The Diplomat
By David Axe
While freedom of expression must be allowed to all authors, The Diplomat
should be more diligent in vetting the articles that it publishes,
especially those that cast aspersions on a nation's policies. Brigadier
Gurmeet Kanwal (Retd). ...
The Diplomat
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IntelliBriefs: US' Af-Pak Policy and India's Concerns
By Naxal Watch
Gurmeet Kanwal
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India should seek a regional solution to the Afghan conflict with the help of China,
Iran and Russia. ...
IntelliBriefs
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ITwitter / pragmatic_desi: Gurmeet Kanwal quotes serv ...
Gurmeet Kanwal quotes service chiefs on Op Parakram:
[LT: @ aditi_malhotra_ ] What Jaswant Singh said: |
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India links Siachen demilitarisation to progress on Mumbai attacks
The News International
Former chief secretary Ashok Jaitley, General Ashok Mehta and Brigadier
Gurmeet Kanwal represented India at the talks while General Hamid Khan, ... |
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India may discuss Siachen, Creek if Pak makes progress in 26/11 ...
Expressindia.com
Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Secretary Ashok Jaitley and security
analysts Ashok Mehta and Gurmeet Kanwal represented India at the talks
while General ... |
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Indian plan to deter Pakistan more myth than reality
Emirates 24/7
Retired Indian army brigadier Gurmeet Kanwal who heads the Centre for Land
Warfare Studies in New Delhi says the doctrine was essentially an attempt
to ... |
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Gurmeet
Kanwal
Indian military's plan to deter Pakistan more myth than
reality
Deccan Herald
9 December 2010
Retired
Indian army brigadier Gurmeet Kanwal who heads the Centre for
Land Warfare Studies in New Delhi says the doctrine was essentially
an attempt to address the problem of mobilisation of the 1.1
million-strong army. It is also aimed at taking the battle into
Pakistan.
"It is essentially a pro-active deterrence strategy with the
clear implication that the Indian armed forces will take the
initiative and the next war in the plains will be fought in
the adversary's territory," he said. |
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New York Times
November 5, 2010
Wealthy
and Worried, India Is Rich Arms Market
By CHRISTOPHER DREW and HEATHER TIMMONS
A big item on President Obama's India to-do list this weekend
is securing a $5 billion deal for Boeing to sell 10 of its C-17
cargo planes. The agreement, for which Boeing and American officials
have long laid the groundwork, would be part of a flurry of
military equipment deals that foreign suppliers are eager to
nail down with India. Mr. Obama's French and Russian counterparts
are expected to visit New Delhi this year, with their own military
sales contracts in hand.
But as long as India's economy is booming, American arms suppliers
may still make big gains. The cost of weapons is simply not
as much a factor as it was just a few years ago, when India
relied mainly on Russia for military equipment, said Gurmeet
Kanwal, a retired brigadier and the director of the Center for
Land Warfare Studies, a research organization in New Delhi.
American technology is seen as the top of the top,ť he said,
and we should aim to pay a little more for the best equipment. |
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America and India: The Almost-Special Relationship
By JIM YARDLEY
November 7, 2010
NEW
DELHI At a panel discussion last week on relations between India
and the United States, Strobe Talbott, the former American diplomat,
told an audience of Indian business leaders that he had learned
a valuable lesson about India: Do not hyphenate it. As in Indo-Pak.
(Or, in a close cousin of a hyphen, as in Chindia.) The audience
smiled at his epiphany: India matters because it is India.
Quite obviously, we have strategic stakes there, said Brig.
Gurmeet Kanwal, director of the Center for Land Warfare Studies,
a military research institute. We do not wish to have a government
in Afghanistan or a government in Kabul that is inimical to
Indian interests.
He added: We see the United States as a stabilizing influence
in Asia. |
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New...
India to seek assurance from US on defence tech
Financial Express
Gurmeet
Kanwal, director, Centre for Land Warfare Studies (CLAWS), New
Delhi, said, The Indo-US nuclear agreement of July 2005 brought
the era of defence ... |
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Perhaps a repeat...
The Red Dragon's plans for India by Gurmeet Kanwal | USINPAC News - China's
aggressive strategic posture in Asia indicates that China has given up Deng ...
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The 'Cold Start and Stop' strategy
Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses
Gurmeet Kanwal has it that the Cold Start doctrine is a 'good' doctrine for
India since 'it is perceived to be destabilising by Pakistanis. ... |
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Gurmeet Kanwal, Director, CLAWS (Centre for Land Warfare Studies) pointed
out that PLA calls the shots in Chinese governance and it has prepared a
long term strategy. Accordingly the next war it would like to fight outside
China, ..
Tarun Vijay |
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No change seen in Pakistan's view of India threat
Reuters AlertNet
India digs Himalaya tunnel to match China
At this time no one is thinking of anything other than how to help them
get over the suffering and the damage," said retired Brigadier Gurmeet
Kanwal at ... |
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Pakistan Army unlikely to change assessment of India threat
Arab News
India digs Himalaya tunnel to match China
Gurmeet Kanwal at the Center for Land Warfare Studies. "The Pakistanis
should feel free to pull out their troops for flood relief as and when they
want. ... |
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San Francisco Chronicle
22 August 2010
India digs Himalaya tunnel to match China
Gurmeet Kanwal, a retired brigadier who
runs the Center for Land Warfare Studies, a New Delhi research
institution, said India could not afford to be cut off from
its most vulnerable reaches half of the year.
"As long as we have these territorial disputes you cannot rule
out another border conflict," Kanwal said. "We would like to
make sure that we can deploy our forces in the right quantities
in the right places." |
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China
wary of India: US report
Hindustan Times
Brigadier Gurmeet Kanwal of the Centre
for Land Warfare Studies says, "China has carried out two military
exercises in 2008 and 2009 to test an ability for ...
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Army suffers as govt delays big gun buy
Economic Times
Gurmeet Kanwal, director of the New Delhi-based think tank Centre for Land
Warfare Studies. The MoD's primary reason for canceling the tender was the fact ...
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Gulf News
10 June 2010
BJP leader deplores lack of infrastructure in border areas
New Delhi: Senior Bharatiya Janata Party
(BJP) leader Rajiv Pratap Rudy deplored the lack of infrastructure
on the Indian side of the country's border with China.
Rudy is part of a BJP delegation that visited the area and tasked
to report the situation to the party before it takes up the
government's alleged soft paddling of repeated instances of
transgression and intrusions by the Chinese forces……
….."LAC is just a perception and both sides (India and China)
patrol what they perceive as their areas. We have had face-offs
which can prove dangerous as these can lead to firing and armed
conflict," said retired brigadier Gurmeet Kanwal.
Kanwal also listed presence of multiple authorities as a major
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Sify.com
9 June 2010
China
way ahead of India in border infrastructure
New Delhi:
China's border infrastructure is way ahead of India, strategic
experts observed here on Wednesday and cautioned that increasing
face-offs along the boundary with China may lead to conflicts
and skirmishes as the two Asian powers grow economically and
militarily…..
Brig. (retd) Gurmeet Kanwal said that
while there was cohesiveness in the border management of China
through single command structure, India was lackadaisical in
its approach.
'Chinese have set up camps very near to the border allowing
their men to acclimatise to the situation, while Indian forces
are based in Assam valley and they would take months even in
acclimatising (in case of a conflict),' said Kanwal.
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Indiavision.com
10 June 2010
Strategic experts caution over increasing face-offs along China border
New Delhi (ANI): Giving an alarming view
of the poor border infrastructure, strategic experts have cautioned
that increasing face-offs along the China border may lead to
firings and skirmishes as India and China grow economically
and militarily……
Presiding over the discussion, Brigadier
Gurmeet Kanwal pointed out that while there was cohesiveness
in the border management of China through single command structure,
India is lackadaisical in its approach even now.
Brigadier Kanwal said Chinese have set up camps very near to
the border with their men acclimatized to the situation while
Indian forces are based in Assam valley and they would take
months even in acclimatizing. |
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San Francisco Chronicle
22 August 2010
India digs Himalaya tunnel to match China
Gurmeet Kanwal, a retired brigadier who
runs the Center for Land Warfare Studies, a New Delhi research
institution, said India could not afford to be cut off from
its most vulnerable reaches half of the year.
"As long as we have these territorial disputes you cannot rule
out another border conflict," Kanwal said. "We would like to
make sure that we can deploy our forces in the right quantities
in the right places." |
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China
wary of India: US report
Hindustan Times
Brigadier Gurmeet Kanwal of the Centre
for Land Warfare Studies says, "China has carried out two military
exercises in 2008 and 2009 to test an ability for ...
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Army suffers as govt delays big gun buy
Economic Times
Gurmeet Kanwal, director of the New Delhi-based think tank Centre for Land
Warfare Studies. The MoD's primary reason for canceling the tender was the fact ...
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Gulf News
10 June 2010
BJP leader deplores lack of infrastructure in border areas
New Delhi: Senior Bharatiya Janata Party
(BJP) leader Rajiv Pratap Rudy deplored the lack of infrastructure
on the Indian side of the country's border with China.
Rudy is part of a BJP delegation that visited the area and tasked
to report the situation to the party before it takes up the
government's alleged soft paddling of repeated instances of
transgression and intrusions by the Chinese forces……
….."LAC is just a perception and both sides (India and China)
patrol what they perceive as their areas. We have had face-offs
which can prove dangerous as these can lead to firing and armed
conflict," said retired brigadier Gurmeet Kanwal.
Kanwal also listed presence of multiple authorities as a major
problem |
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Sify.com
9 June 2010
China
way ahead of India in border infrastructure
New Delhi: China's border infrastructure
is way ahead of India, strategic experts observed here on Wednesday
and cautioned that increasing face-offs along the boundary with
China may lead to conflicts and skirmishes as the two Asian
powers grow economically and militarily…..
Brig. (retd) Gurmeet Kanwal said that
while there was cohesiveness in the border management of China
through single command structure, India was lackadaisical in
its approach.
'Chinese have set up camps very near to the border allowing
their men to acclimatise to the situation, while Indian forces
are based in Assam valley and they would take months even in
acclimatising (in case of a conflict),' said Kanwal.
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Indiavision.com
10 June 2010
Strategic experts caution over increasing face-offs along China border
New Delhi (ANI): Giving an alarming view
of the poor border infrastructure, strategic experts have cautioned
that increasing face-offs along the China border may lead to
firings and skirmishes as India and China grow economically
and militarily……
Presiding over the discussion, Brigadier
Gurmeet Kanwal pointed out that while there was cohesiveness
in the border management of China through single command structure,
India is lackadaisical in its approach even now.
Brigadier Kanwal said Chinese have set up camps very near to
the border with their men acclimatized to the situation while
Indian forces are based in Assam valley and they would take
months even in acclimatizing. |
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The Economic Times
14 June 2010
India's nuclear deterrence lacks capability
NEW DELHI: India's nuclear deterrence
lacks capability and the country needs to build up its stockpile
of fissile material to correct this, a leading defence analyst
said Monday.
"We need to build up our fissile material
stockpiles because our deterrence lacks capability," Brig. (retd)
Gurmeet Kanwal said at a seminar here on "Nuclear Arsenals post
2010" organised by the Indian Navy-funded National Maritime
Foundation.
Kanwal noted in this context that India lacked nuclear submarines
capable of launching SLBMs (submarine-launched ballistic missiles)
that are considered the most credible form of deterrence in
case of a nuclear attack. As Rear Admiral (retd) K. Raja Menon
put it, an SLBM "is the most stabilising element of a second
strike capability" in case of a nuclear attack. India has repeatedly
said that it would not be the first to use nuclear weapons in
case of a war with Pakistan but experts point out that given
its limited delivery capabilities of delivering these from the
air or from the ground, this would make the country vulnerable
in case of war. Urging greater transparency in the decision
making process on building a credible deterrence against a nuclear
attack, he deprecated the fact that the armed forces were kept
out of the process.
"The armed forces stay out of the discussions
because they take their lead from their political masters. Transparency
leads to greater credibility," maintained Kanwal, who heads
the Indian Army-funded think tank Centre for Land Warfare Studies
(CLAWS).
Bharat Karnad, another analyst, concurred with Kanwal……..
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The Hindu
5 June 2010
Justice for Kargil Heroes
Next month India will commemorate its
victory in the Kargil war and the extraordinary sacrifices of
the soldiers. They fought in some of the most brutal terrain
in the world to achieve the objective of throwing the Pakistani
intruders out. In his speech of July 26, Union Defence Minister
A.K. Antony, a politician known for his commitment to probity,
must set to rest the ghosts that haunt the battlefield. It has
long been known that many who played a key role in ensuring
victory were disgraced so that superiors who ought to have been
penalised for their wartime failures could receive medals and
honours. Last week, the Armed Force Tribunal held that the officer
with direct supervisory responsibility for the conduct of the
war, former XV Corps commander Lieutenant-General Kishan Pal,
falsified battle records to deny a key subordinate credit for
his stellar conduct of operations. This action, which seems
to have been driven by a desire to cover up command failures,
cost 70 Brigade commander Devinder Singh a medal and a promotion.
That it took 11 years to deliver justice to Brigadier Singh
is shocking: the Tribunal's judgment has only affirmed what
the Army has known all along. Several
accounts of the war, including Lieutenant-General Y.M. Bammi's
magisterial, Kargil: The Impregnable Conquered, former army
chief General V.P. Malik's memoirs, and Brigadier Gurmeet Kanwal's
official history of the war, made it clear that Brigadier Singh
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