Harrowing Times for Indian Diplomacy
February 15, 2012 by Team SAI
Filed under foreign policy
One minor blast in a country which has witnessed a series of violent terrorist attacks, blasts and mayhem has sent the country on a tizzy and brought it to the centre of the raging conflict between Israel, duly supported by the west, and Iran. If anything, the attack on the Israel diplomatic car denotes the fragility of India to terror manipulations severely restricting its ability to chose a pragmatic diplomatic path.
Bravery Personified: Lt Navdeep Singh, Ashoka Chakra
February 11, 2012 by Team SAI
Filed under internal security
Conferring the Ashok Chakra on Lt Navdeep Singh is the latest but not the last episode of gallantry in the long and chequered history of the Indian Armed Forces. His actions speak of military professionalism and placing duty, honour and selflessness above personal needs.
Coups in South Asia : Strategic Underpinnings
In Maldives other games may be afoot. China, which has opened a diplomatic office in Male, the fifth country to do so, may be strategically inclined to support the regime change. Its plans to open a billion dollar casino and resort were held back by the Nasheed government. While the casino may be a ploy to increase Chinese footprint in Maldives the ultimate Chinese interest would be to exploit the strategic location of Maldives for its Navy.
Analysis: China and Russia’s Veto on Syria
The Russian and Chinese veto, used for their partisan interests have reopened the debate on the efficacy of UN as a peacemaker of the world. They may be right about a unipolar world and its definition but at a time and moment like this putting the interests of the Syrian people above their own would have won them more respectability from the international community.
Preponing Afghanistan to 2013: Cause and Effect
February 3, 2012 by Team SAI
Filed under geopolitics, war on terror
Defence Secretary Panetta’s airborne disclosure of a 2013 winding down of combat operations in Afghanistan, one year ahead of schedule, has baffled political and military analysts world over. While it appears to be a political judgement in the election year, it has much wider ramifications for the region.
Go, Navdeep, Go!
January 28, 2012 by Team SAI
Filed under internal security
Take home, dear reader, the overriding thought that Navdeep actually lives in all of us. In these desperate times when all seems to be falling apart, there is help at hand to resurrect; reconstruct…That help is within us…Jiva is Shiva. God and godliness live within ourselves and all we need to do is to evoke him and sincerely. We need to do ordinary things with extraordinary zeal and dedication and accountability as well as probity to invoke the Lt Navdeep Singh, Ashoka Chakra inside us. Start now.
Au Revoir, Lieutenant Navdeep Singh..
January 27, 2012 by Team SAI
Filed under internal security
The soldier, who has taken position behind a boulder, simulating the terrorist who shot Navdeep, is just five meters away. This was the distance at which Navdeep was fired at, pulling in his buddy to safety as he fell dying. There could not have been a nobler death. Let us join in saluting this bravest of brave men who gave his today for our tomorrow.
I did at Bagtor. You should salute him, man or woman, from wherever you are.
President Obama’s National Defense Guidance: Forward to the Past
Long War Journal (Editor’s Note: This is the way US intends fighting wars of the future. We had put this strategy in context in our earlier post Obama’s New Defence Strategy and Asia. The guidelines add to some clarity and we shall look forward to the nuts and bolts of these guidelines in February 2012 [...]
Pakistan: Soft Coup Appears Imminent
No democratic government has survived the full term in Pakistan. Something which the Pakistan Army takes great pride in having ruled Pakistan for half of its existence directly and the rest indirectly. In the worst face off between the civil government and the military, both of which are suffering legitimacy crisis in Pakistan, the scales [...]
More Equal than others in Death
By Tazeen Javed In the wake of the cross-border Nato attack in November that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers in Salala, the whole country was up in arms against the aggression of the allied forces. From the political parties to lawyers associations, from banned militant outfits to student organisations, from the head of the armed forces [...]