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by Samudragupta
26 Dec 2016 00:41
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-Russia: News & Analysis
Replies: 6071
Views: 1261771

Re: India-Russia: News & Analysis

Russia will be having a single point foreign policy goal...success of the Eurasian Union and CSTO...People should not forget that Pakistan has become part of SCO...it makes perfect sense for the Russians to open up with the Pakistanis to break the monopoly of the Chinese on them...
by Samudragupta
19 Dec 2016 23:35
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-Russia: News & Analysis
Replies: 6071
Views: 1261771

Re: India-Russia: News & Analysis

Seems like Russian ambassador to Turkey has been shot dead in Turkey...
by Samudragupta
16 May 2016 08:54
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Bangladesh News and Discussion
Replies: 2752
Views: 534604

Re: Bangladesh News and Discussion

India's increasing withdrawal of Ganges water has led to an acute water crisis in Bangladesh in recent years. India has built at least 26 water diversion projects upstream the Ganges which has led to crop failure and even desertification of certain areas in the lower riparian Bangladesh. The crisis...
by Samudragupta
15 Jan 2016 19:02
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Future Strategic Scenario for the Indian Subcontinent -III
Replies: 104
Views: 17197

Re: Future Strategic Scenario for the Indian Subcontinent -I

Germany Needs a Permanent Naval Presence in the Indian Ocean The call for more German engagement in international security is not misguided. There are core interests to protect between Gibraltar and East Asia. As politics by other means, this includes showing the flag East of Suez. Maritime Core In...
by Samudragupta
05 Jan 2016 14:36
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Social Problems in Punjab and their Strategic Impact
Replies: 482
Views: 119025

Re: Social Problems in Panjab and their Strategic Impact

The most important point that we are all missing here is.... Punjab-Haryana continue to be the largest recruitment base for the army....if the society is in fact hit by something like this...needs to ponder over the fact whether Punjabization of the Indian army after 1880 was a good idea????
by Samudragupta
04 Jan 2016 22:05
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Social Problems in Punjab and their Strategic Impact
Replies: 482
Views: 119025

Re: Social Problems in Panjab and their Strategic Impact

Religion is the opium of masses....once Khalistani movement is put down they are fed the real one I believe from across the border and helped by locals...
by Samudragupta
25 Nov 2015 12:20
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: The Levant crisis.(Israel,SYRIA,Lebanon,etc)
Replies: 4033
Views: 450966

Re: The Levant crisis.(Israel,SYRIA,Lebanon,etc)

The shooting of the Rus bomber has been done exactly to provoke the Russians and let them away from the mission they are here to accomplish....Its a Trap....Putin is not a fool to fall for it....He has just moved Russian Air defence ship with in built S-300 near Lakhatia...Russians are seen as good ...
by Samudragupta
25 Nov 2015 12:03
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: The Levant crisis.(Israel,SYRIA,Lebanon,etc)
Replies: 4033
Views: 450966

Re: The Levant crisis.(Israel,SYRIA,Lebanon,etc)

Its pretty clear that Turkey has acted unilaterally to draw the red line for the Russians...Gentlemen...we are not seeing a nuclear war for downing a Rus bomber...however macho Putin may be he is lot more saner than the ISIS...Erdogan took this gamble actually trusting the sane response from the Rus...
by Samudragupta
17 Nov 2015 21:46
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: The Levant crisis.(Israel,SYRIA,Lebanon,etc)
Replies: 4033
Views: 450966

Re: The Levant crisis.(Israel,SYRIA,Lebanon,etc)

It seems S 400 has been deployed in Syria by the Russians....what are they expecting?
by Samudragupta
17 Nov 2015 21:37
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Re: The Levant crisis.(Israel,SYRIA,Lebanon,etc)
Replies: 795
Views: 93280

Re: Terrorist Attack in Paris

Its common knowledge that Putin's Russia enjoys positive relation with the center of the right polity in Europe...the right wing has been vocal critic of the cultural Marxists regarding the flow of Non whites into Europe and this includes Germany and France....Macho Putin is mostly seen as kind of P...
by Samudragupta
17 Nov 2015 21:23
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Re: The Levant crisis.(Israel,SYRIA,Lebanon,etc)
Replies: 795
Views: 93280

Re: Terrorist Attack in Paris

The immediate result for the dramatic attack is probably the stopping of refugee flow to Europe.... needs to see who is going to benefit out of it....
by Samudragupta
17 Nov 2015 21:19
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: The Levant crisis.(Israel,SYRIA,Lebanon,etc)
Replies: 4033
Views: 450966

Re: The Levant crisis.(Israel,SYRIA,Lebanon,etc)

The blowing up of Russian civilian liner will have ramifications....its pretty clean that this action is an internal Saudi-Egyptian intel Hit job.. to get the Russians out of the Syrian theatre...there is nothing ISIS hand in it...the Paris incident is an unpredictable situation for them..... it see...
by Samudragupta
31 Oct 2015 18:11
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Sunni Terrorist Fragments of Unstable Pakistan-Sept 05, 2015
Replies: 2850
Views: 347195

Re: Sunni Terrorist Fragments of Unstable Pakistan-Sept 05,

What if India is indeed preparing for a swift war with TSPA...... S 400 is Strategic ABM system what is the need of it now?
by Samudragupta
26 Sep 2015 18:47
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India and UN: better off out or in
Replies: 122
Views: 15557

Re: India and UN: better off out or in

Unless india were powerful enough to set up one alternative challenging UN, P5 would never take india's apply of veto seriously. BTW,USA did not take the reform of WB/IMF seriously ,either.so CHina just lead to set up AIIB/silk road fund to challenge/replace WB/IMF. Thus,now if USA want to keep WB/...
by Samudragupta
29 Jul 2015 21:41
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Afghanistan News & Discussion
Replies: 3997
Views: 612320

Re: Afghanistan News & Discussion

In all probability the Afghan Taliban has fractured and the boys under Abdul Qayum Zakir who is the military chief of the Af Taliban will move towards ISIS Khorasan Wilayat... The killing of Malik Ishaq should be seen in this light.....ISIS is definitely on the move to consolidate the Sunni forces u...
by Samudragupta
29 Jul 2015 14:19
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Afghanistan News & Discussion
Replies: 3997
Views: 612320

Re: Afghanistan News & Discussion

Mullah Omar confirmed dead... splinter group claims he was killed 2 years back.... A splinter group of the Afghan Taliban has claimed militant leader Mullah Mohammad Omar, who has not been seen in public in years, was killed by senior commanders two years ago. The Afghanistan Islamic Movement Fidai ...
by Samudragupta
27 Jul 2015 10:28
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Internal Security Watch
Replies: 6210
Views: 1751221

Re: Internal Security Watch

The boy in the left is Burhan Wani the new poster boy of HM in the valley...
by Samudragupta
10 Jul 2015 09:23
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) - News & Discussion
Replies: 127
Views: 26676

Re: Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) - News & Discuss

India joining SCO is part of India's strategy to open the road to Central Asia through Punjab/Pakistan because it is still the most economical for Indian goods to reach Afghanistan and Central Asia through this route...In as much it seems to the last option for India... If it does not work which it ...
by Samudragupta
02 Jul 2015 18:24
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Sunni Terrorist Fragments of Unstable Pakistan - Apr 22 2015
Replies: 2846
Views: 318945

Re: Sunni Terrorist Fragments of Unstable Pakistan - Apr 22

The more important q about the article will be does Indian Military really wants to crush TSPA???? Why is that even after getting Lahore by the balls in 1965... India stopped the war? What was the political reason for this? Was it only the PA defenses????Why didn't IA crossed the western border in 1...
by Samudragupta
29 Jun 2015 19:27
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Sunni Terrorist Fragments of Unstable Pakistan - Apr 22 2015
Replies: 2846
Views: 318945

Re: Sunni Terrorist Fragments of Unstable Pakistan - Apr 22

The last time there were water scarcity in the region we had invasion from the west first withe the Persians under Darius and then the central Asian tribes and ultimately the ARABS
by Samudragupta
27 Jun 2015 21:43
Forum: Mil-Tech Archive
Topic: Armoured Vehicles: News & Discussion
Replies: 3546
Views: 930220

Re: Armoured Vehicles Discussion Thread - August 9 , 2014

I think we are seeing more Indo-Israeli collaboration for the Israeli FMCV and Indian FRCV.... both are light weight combat vehicles may not be necessarily tanks....
by Samudragupta
20 Jun 2015 23:23
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: Indian Navy News & Discussion - 22 April 2015
Replies: 4210
Views: 744835

Re: Indian Naval News & Discussion - 22 April 2015

^Ok. Any reasons to prefer the the Swedish sub? The single most utility for the DE subs is to use it as the hunter killer platforms for underwater subs in the IOR specially for the noisy PLAN subs....Nothing can be better than the Swedish technologies which are probably the world leader in the unde...
by Samudragupta
20 Jun 2015 22:55
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: Indian Navy News & Discussion - 22 April 2015
Replies: 4210
Views: 744835

Re: Indian Naval News & Discussion - 22 April 2015

Why dont the Russians give us the Yassens? Now that they need the much needed cash and we need SSNs??
by Samudragupta
19 Jun 2015 09:09
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Iran News and Discussions
Replies: 3300
Views: 578725

Re: Iran News and Discussions

Iran was the original big brother for the South Asia during the Pahlavi reign.....the single most important strategic aim for the Reza Shah was to recreate the Persian empire....the White revolution and its economic policies closely matched with the west and it was the second most fastest growing ec...
by Samudragupta
18 Jun 2015 08:44
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Afghanistan News & Discussion
Replies: 3997
Views: 612320

Re: Afghanistan News & Discussion

More than the Central Asia the strategic aim of ISIS is to go after Turkey and North Africa....the reason US is cooperating with Iran is that US sees the real possibility that the IS can be established in this region...considering they have shown tremendous capability to consolidate the territory gr...
by Samudragupta
16 Jun 2015 20:04
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Afghanistan News & Discussion
Replies: 3997
Views: 612320

Re: Afghanistan News & Discussion

The defacto conflict between AQ and IS seems to be heating up in Khorasan... AT is just the slideshow for ISI.....btw the official position of ISIS is to kill Mullah Umar in the Khorasan province... :D
by Samudragupta
16 Jun 2015 19:37
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: Indian Navy News & Discussion - 22 April 2015
Replies: 4210
Views: 744835

Re: Indian Naval News & Discussion - 22 April 2015

Arun Menon wrote:^source?

AM source is negative at this point in the public domain....
by Samudragupta
16 Jun 2015 18:33
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: Indian Navy News & Discussion - 22 April 2015
Replies: 4210
Views: 744835

Re: Indian Naval News & Discussion - 22 April 2015

In all probability India may go with the Swedish A26 DE subs...
by Samudragupta
12 Jun 2015 22:02
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Afghanistan News & Discussion
Replies: 3997
Views: 612320

Re: Afghanistan News & Discussion

Iran generally plays with both the sides; It makes perfect sense for the Iranians to create a counter force to the Paki sponsored mercenaries to wield its own influence across the Hindukush...but the more important q is do Iran have the necessary resources in its stable after investing heavily in Ir...
by Samudragupta
26 Jan 2015 21:15
Forum: Military Scenarios Archive
Topic: Possible Indian Military Scenarios - XIII
Replies: 856
Views: 474045

Re: Possible Indian Military Scenarios - XIII

The question that is coming to my mind are we going to stop at Durand line once the gloves are off???
by Samudragupta
16 Jan 2015 12:42
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: Indian Naval News & Discussion - 12 Oct 2013
Replies: 4026
Views: 555419

Re: Indian Naval Discussion

India to ramp up amphibious capabilities with four warships The Ministry of Defence (MoD) had re-issued a request for proposal (RFP) to Indian private sector shipyards in September to build four amphibious assault ships, also called the Landing Platform Docks (LPD) in naval parlance. Each of these ...
by Samudragupta
16 Jan 2015 09:59
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Turkey News, discussions, India Turkey Relations
Replies: 1463
Views: 482173

Re: Monitoring Turkey

On the international scene Turkey is playing a high stakes game, trying to transform itself into an international energy hub as vividly illustrated by the recent rapprochement between Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Russia's Vladimir Putin. Domestically however, the current government seems more concerned...
by Samudragupta
13 Jan 2015 14:41
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: Neutering & Defanging Chinese Threat (09-08-2014)
Replies: 10352
Views: 2251716

Re: Managing Chinese Threat (09-08-2014)

I also saw through SCMP that China and Japan are trying to improve their signaling, coordination and agreement and emergency handling [through establishing the hotline]. Names and roles etc being discussed and they might come up with a comprehensive mitigation plan to ensure accidents don't happen ...
by Samudragupta
13 Jan 2015 12:58
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: Neutering & Defanging Chinese Threat (09-08-2014)
Replies: 10352
Views: 2251716

Re: Managing Chinese Threat (09-08-2014)

In the words of former president of India Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, “The Moon contains 10 times more energy in the form of helium-3 than all the fossil fuels on the earth.” http://thediplomat.com/2015/01/china-leads-race-to-the-moon/ States are quietly preparing to secure fuel for the fourth generation ...
by Samudragupta
09 Dec 2014 09:54
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Future Strategic Scenario for the Indian Subcontinent -III
Replies: 104
Views: 17197

Re: Future Strategic Scenario for the Indian Subcontinent -I

X-post The British Empire strikes back ,the neo-Imperialists and neo-colonialists are returning in full force after a brief interval of a fe decades,where for 500+ years the Europeans held Asia in slavery and thralldom. India has to factor in the revanchist dsigns of the neo-imperialists in its stra...
by Samudragupta
03 Dec 2014 08:32
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Turkey News, discussions, India Turkey Relations
Replies: 1463
Views: 482173

Re: Monitoring Turkey

http://thediplomat.com/2014/11/turkey-in-central-asia-turkic-togetherness/ In the immediate aftermath of the Soviet Union’s collapse, Turkey was one of the first states to initiate wide-ranging cooperation with the Central Asian states. Despite setbacks in promoting a Turkic Union in the region, Tur...
by Samudragupta
28 Nov 2014 11:40
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Geopolitical thread
Replies: 3955
Views: 596809

Re: Geopolitical thread

Germans will not repeat old mistake of unilateral aggression. they learned the lesson that any such actions end up unifying diverse powers such as US & Russia against them. Merkel is walking a fine path. her successors, for better or worse, will continue similarly. Germans sees multilateralism ...
by Samudragupta
26 Nov 2014 23:53
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Geopolitical thread
Replies: 3955
Views: 596809

Re: Geopolitical thread

The German insecurity is rising again....resulting in the re-rising of the The German Question in Europe.....four geostrategic moves are causing this, The American pivot in the pacific shifting from the Atlantic. The Russian Resurgence. Resurrection of the Anglo-French entente in Europe Neo-Ottomani...
by Samudragupta
26 Nov 2014 22:39
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Turkey News, discussions, India Turkey Relations
Replies: 1463
Views: 482173

Re: Monitoring Turkey

A turkish Perspective

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