Col. Harsh Vardhan Singh
Iran in Afghanistan: Running with the Hare and Hunting with the Hounds
Iran has strong religious and cultural ties and a long shared border with Afghanistan, Dari, the Afghan dialect of Persian, is one of Afghanistan’s...
Hazaras: Geographical Orphans
Pakistan’s ethnic cauldron boiled over again with the brutal killing of eleven Hazara miners who were kidnapped before dawn on 03 January as they...
Looking for Chimera: Favourable End State
In military circles, Clausewitz aphorism; “war is merely the continuation of policy by other means” is generally accepted as a truism. However, the situation...
Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) : Achilles Heel of Pak Army
Pakistan is a beleaguered state fraying both externally and internally; international isolation due to its radical ideological stand and internal dissent fueled by the...
Coup D’oeil and Intuitive Decision Making
The more you read Clausewitz the more enamoured you get with his ideas. Coup d’oeil is one such idea which defines a great leader....
CLAUSEWITZ’S TRINITIES
On War or Vom Kriege penned by Clausewitz and published after his death in 1832 is vade mecum of every military practitioner of any...
Power To Intimidate: A New Tool Of Warfare
The ability to subdue the enemy without any battles is the ultimate reflection of the most supreme strategy- Sun Zi
The standoff in Eastern Ladakh...
Evolution of Warfighting Strategy in India
“The Indian Army’s prevailing doctrine leaves the military with two main choices: do nothing or risk wars it cannot win. The Indian Army needs...
Leadership Of Ummah: Choices For Pakistan
In an article published by Centre for Land Warfare Studies (CLAWS) in Aug 2019, I had elucidated on the (un)holy embrace of Pakistan with...
Non-Lethal Interstate Warfare
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The Covid-19 pandemic has severely affected the world like never before. For the first time, the globalized world remains standstill. In the Indian context,...
Book Review | Spying from Space: Constructing America’s Satellite Command and Control Systems
The book Spying from Space: Constructing America’s Satellite Command and Control Systems” by Dr David Christopher Arnold (Col USAF-Ret), published by Texas A&M University...
China’s Rising Pressure on Bhutan’s Borders is Aimed at India
Druk-yul, as Bhutan is called in its national language, is a small Himalayan state clubbed between two rising global powers, India and China. While...