China’s deteriorating relations with Australia and New Zealand May 5, 2021, 2:01 PM IST
S D Pradhan has served as chairman of India s Joint Intelligence Committee. He has also been the country s deputy national security adviser. He was chairman of the Task Force on Intelligence Mechanism (2008-2010), which was constituted to review the functioning of the intelligence agencies. He has taught at the departments of defence studies and history at the Punjabi University, Patiala. He was also a visiting professor at the University of Illinois, US, in the department of arms control and disarmament studies. The ministry of defence had utilized his services for the preparation of official accounts of the 1971 war and the counterinsurgency operations in the northeast. In the JIC/National Security Council secretariat, he was closely involved with the preparation of the reports of the Kargil Review Committee and the Group of Ministers on national security as also with the i
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Tibet has always been free: India needs to change the narrative in the ongoing LAC standoff talks – Part 2 May 1, 2021, 1:54 PM IST
Dr. Maj Gen (Retd) Anil Kumar Lal is a Defence Analyst who has authored many path-breaking concepts on Nuclear and Space Warfare strategies. He feels that the future Military Forces would be dictated by a new concept of Strategic detterence which would be a combined effect of Nuclear and Space detterence.
He is a third generation Indian Army Officer, who has participated in the many India-Pakistan battles including the Kargil conflict, 1999. A captured ‘Defence Post’ has been named after him on the LOC. He has been Commanding General in the Siachen/Ladakh sector and had been Director Nuclear warfare in the Army Headquarters during the Pokhran-II test. He has held Fellowship at the IDSA and the Chair of Excellence twice at the USI of India. He has authored six books on National Security issues including a
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Tibet has always been free: India needs to change the narrative in the ongoing LAC standoff talks – Part 1 May 1, 2021, 1:48 PM IST
Dr. Maj Gen (Retd) Anil Kumar Lal is a Defence Analyst who has authored many path-breaking concepts on Nuclear and Space Warfare strategies. He feels that the future Military Forces would be dictated by a new concept of Strategic detterence which would be a combined effect of Nuclear and Space detterence.
He is a third generation Indian Army Officer, who has participated in the many India-Pakistan battles including the Kargil conflict, 1999. A captured ‘Defence Post’ has been named after him on the LOC. He has been Commanding General in the Siachen/Ladakh sector and had been Director Nuclear warfare in the Army Headquarters during the Pokhran-II test. He has held Fellowship at the IDSA and the Chair of Excellence twice at the USI of India. He has authored six books on National Security issues including a
Sounds of silence: That which is left unspoken can often convey much more meaning than words do April 28, 2021, 11:42 AM IST
A former associate editor with the Times of India, Jug Suraiya writes two regular columns for the print edition, Jugular Vein, which appears every Friday, and Second Opinion, which appears on Wednesdays. His blog takes a contrarian view of topical and timeless issues, political, social, economic and speculative. LESS. MORE
In law, silence means consent. If you were to see someone coming from behind me a knife in hand, with the obvious intention of killing me, and choose not to warn me about the imminent attack, in the eyes of the law you’d be seen to consent to the act, and so be deemed to be an accomplice to murder.
Imran Khan wanted to have a Medina-like Pakistan, which he called Naya Pakistan. If I was his advisor, I would have told him that to create a 7 th Century city in the 21 st.