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- 24 Jul 2025 11:37
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: India and ASEAN / East Asia
- Replies: 737
- Views: 185143
Re: India and ASEAN / East Asia
Malaysia dismantles Islamic State network involving workers from Bangladesh Just last year, there was an attack on a Johor police station by someone owing allegiance to IS. Later, it turned out that his entire family was an IS supporter and radicalized. There had also been some other IS-related arr...
- 24 Jul 2025 08:07
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Indian Space Program: News & Discussion
- Replies: 1321
- Views: 1303307
Re: Indian Space Program: News & Discussion
Sharp-eyed US-Indian satellite set to launch July 30 to monitor Earth's surface, warn of natural disasters The first equal partnership between NASA and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is set to take flight on July 30 with the launch of the NISAR Earth-observation satellite. Standing f...
- 17 Jul 2025 10:34
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Challenge of China_ Political, Economic & Military Responses
- Replies: 785
- Views: 553638
Re: Challenge of China_ Political, Economic & Military Responses
Remember what we produced: The new map of borders and areas around China on the eve of PM Li Qiang's visit to India for G-20.
- 17 Jul 2025 10:16
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Understanding New China After the 19th and 20th Congresses
- Replies: 1362
- Views: 636263
Re: Understanding New China After the 19th and 20th Congresses
RaviB and SS despite the outpouring of criticism of XJP he is still firmly in charge. That's correct, ramana. That's why I said before that the rumours of his earlier disappearance and latest speculation of him likely being replaced were just that, rumours, howsoever we all wished them to be true. ...
- 17 Jul 2025 09:17
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Operation Sindoor - Bharat Strikes Back: Jai Hind!
- Replies: 2938
- Views: 604690
Re: Operation Sindoor - Bharat Strikes Back: Jai Hind!
Looks like Excalibur rounds were used on one terror camp.Cain Marko wrote: ↑16 Jul 2025 03:35To hit the terror centers? Really doubt we'll be using artillery in densely populated areas...
- 17 Jul 2025 07:39
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Indian Missiles News & Discussions - 30 June 2022
- Replies: 1774
- Views: 1542126
Re: Indian Missiles News & Discussions - 30 June 2022
India "has tested" a Mach 8 missile with 1,500 km range as per the below article... India testing a missile that flies at eight times the speed of sound, hits targets 1,500 km away https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/new-updates/india-testing-a-missile-that-flies-at-eight-times-the-...
- 16 Jul 2025 19:37
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Operation Sindoor - Post Conflict Analysis
- Replies: 1789
- Views: 470292
Re: Operation Sindoor - Post Conflict Analysis
There was never any doubt that it was PL-15 and not PL-15E.
- 16 Jul 2025 11:39
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Indian China Studies Centers
- Replies: 14
- Views: 14424
Re: Indian China Studies Centers
Issue Brief, about a year old on East Asia, again published by C3S.
The Developing Military Alliance in North-East Asia
The Developing Military Alliance in North-East Asia
- 16 Jul 2025 10:56
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Indian China Studies Centers
- Replies: 14
- Views: 14424
Re: Indian China Studies Centers
Want to expand the focus to East Asia and the Americas as they have an impact on India. You are right. The situation there is becoming dangerous and it has an immediate and direct impact on India In this connection, my October 2024 paper in C3S: ASEAN, China, and Japan – a pas de trois I intend to ...
- 12 Jul 2025 07:57
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Understanding New China After the 19th and 20th Congresses
- Replies: 1362
- Views: 636263
Re: Understanding New China After the 19th and 20th Congresses
RaviB, thanks.
The last sentence above demands 'political system reform' which lends itself to different interpretations, including XJP's stepping down or removal.
Of course, the entire thrust of the article is a direct criticism of XJP's policies.
The last sentence above demands 'political system reform' which lends itself to different interpretations, including XJP's stepping down or removal.
Of course, the entire thrust of the article is a direct criticism of XJP's policies.
- 09 Jul 2025 14:29
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Military Flight Safety
- Replies: 3509
- Views: 1306427
Re: Military Flight Safety
Jaguar crashes in Rajasthan. More details awaited.
- 08 Jul 2025 21:56
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Operation Sindoor - Post Conflict Analysis
- Replies: 1789
- Views: 470292
Re: Operation Sindoor - Post Conflict Analysis
Some reports have said it was PL-15 and not PL-15E
- 07 Jul 2025 20:41
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Operation Sindoor - Post Conflict Analysis
- Replies: 1789
- Views: 470292
- 01 Jul 2025 10:42
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Indian Missiles News & Discussions - 30 June 2022
- Replies: 1774
- Views: 1542126
Re: Indian Missiles News & Discussions - 30 June 2022
B2 bombers also carry nukes... B2s are stealth bombers and anyway, the Chinese radars don't register anything! On a more serious note, it is the profile of the missile that would lend to interpretation whether it is a strategic missile or not. That's why dual-use missiles especially in the fog of w...
- 30 Jun 2025 21:19
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Indian Missiles News & Discussions - 30 June 2022
- Replies: 1774
- Views: 1542126
Re: Indian Missiles News & Discussions - 30 June 2022
After US-Iran strike, India may be developing its own massive bunker busters - ET In a significant strategic move, India is reportedly advancing the development of a new class of high-powered bunker-buster missiles , drawing inspiration from the recent deployment of American GBU-57/A Massive Ordnan...
- 30 Jun 2025 21:09
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Indus Water Treaty
- Replies: 3395
- Views: 1014679
Re: Indus Water Treaty
India readies another water shock for Pakistan - ET In the wake of the Pakistan-sponsored terrorist attack in Pahalgam, India intensified its strategic response, not only diplomatically and militarily but also hydrologically -- by suspending the Indus Water Treaty (IWT) which governs sharing of wat...
- 27 Jun 2025 21:27
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Indus Water Treaty
- Replies: 3395
- Views: 1014679
Re: Indus Water Treaty
'Charade at Pakistan’s behest': India calls arbitration court under Indus treaty 'illegal'; rejects its authority - ToI India on Friday dismissed the Court of Arbitration under the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty as illegal, firmly rejecting its authority. The ministry of external affairs snubbed the “sup...
- 26 Jun 2025 07:46
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Israel-Hezbollah-Iran War
- Replies: 628
- Views: 154547
Re: Israel-Hezbollah-Iran War
The results of 'blackmail' are never predictable especially in international relationship. Blackmailers either do not realize that or are willing to take that risk in which case they reap the consequences and are themselves responsible whatever fate befalls them. Blackmailing on borrowed strength is...
- 25 Jun 2025 21:09
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Israel-Hezbollah-Iran War
- Replies: 628
- Views: 154547
Re: Israel-Hezbollah-Iran War
The biggest reason for Iran's capitulation, apart from the severe pasting that they received, was Russia's indifference on June 23 when Iranian FM met Putin. After gas-lighting everything everywhere, China has also kept mum especially after GBU-57. Iran was shown the riot act, in a way by both its a...
- 25 Jun 2025 08:11
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Operation Sindoor - Post Conflict Analysis
- Replies: 1789
- Views: 470292
Re: Operation Sindoor - Post Conflict Analysis
Coming to think of it, the sub-conscious frustration that we Indians actually face is that Pakistan is not seen as "defeated" by Aam Pakistanis... Comments like "Losing media narrative", "Not inflicting enough damage" etc. comes from this frustration... ---- Losing H&a...
- 24 Jun 2025 18:44
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Indus Water Treaty
- Replies: 3395
- Views: 1014679
Re: Indus Water Treaty
The WB appointed also a Court of Arbitration (CoA) on the same issues that the Neutral Expert (NE) would be addressing.
India must say that since the IWT is in abeyance, it would not be able to entertain any communication from or to the the NE or the CoA or the WB or the PIC of TSP.
India must say that since the IWT is in abeyance, it would not be able to entertain any communication from or to the the NE or the CoA or the WB or the PIC of TSP.
- 24 Jun 2025 12:20
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Challenge of China_ Political, Economic & Military Responses
- Replies: 785
- Views: 553638
Re: Challenge of China_ Political, Economic & Military Responses
Is it fair to say that Beijing, who was perhaps earlier thought of as a serious rival and threat, should now be viewed as an openly hostile neighbour, if not an outright enemy? In the aftermath of the Pahalgam crisis can we say that the Chinese, who were always pro Pakistani, have now made a clear,...
- 23 Jun 2025 21:48
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Terroristan - March 31, 2022
- Replies: 5356
- Views: 2372434
Re: Terroristan - March 31, 2022
Gautam, my view is that Shehbaz gave it to Asim Munir in order to save his own skin. The defeat was enormous. Munir wanted him to be saved because he was the schemer of the war. He threatened Shehbaz to generate a false narrative of great resistance by the Army, huge loss of Indian assets, India see...
- 22 Jun 2025 08:25
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Terroristan - March 31, 2022
- Replies: 5356
- Views: 2372434
Re: Terroristan - March 31, 2022
Does the B2 bombing of the three Iranian nuclear sites overnight queer the pitch for TSP's support for Nobel Prize for Trump as the Great Satan has bombed a fellow Muslim state or is it all par for the course? After all, TSP is the sole reason for what is happening in Iran today with its AQ Khan/Mus...
- 22 Jun 2025 08:20
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Terroristan - March 31, 2022
- Replies: 5356
- Views: 2372434
Re: Terroristan - March 31, 2022
Pakistan to nominate Trump for Peace Nobel over 'intervention' with India - ToI In a move likely to stir diplomatic discussion across the region, *the Shehbaz Sharif-led Pakistan govt announced on Saturday that it will formally recommend US President Donald Trump for the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize, cit...
- 16 Jun 2025 05:19
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Indus Water Treaty
- Replies: 3395
- Views: 1014679
Re: Indus Water Treaty
Bigger Indus plan: 113km canal to take surplus to Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan - ToI After taking quick short-term measures to utilise waters from the Indus river system, India has now moved to a bigger plan of inter-basin water transfers by initiating a feasibility study for constructing a 113 km...
- 13 Jun 2025 21:47
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Terroristan - March 31, 2022
- Replies: 5356
- Views: 2372434
Re: Terroristan - March 31, 2022
- 13 Jun 2025 10:37
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Indian Missiles News & Discussions - 30 June 2022
- Replies: 1774
- Views: 1542126
Re: Indian Missiles News & Discussions - 30 June 2022
DP = Deep Penetration
- 12 Jun 2025 22:02
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Operation Sindoor - Post Conflict Analysis
- Replies: 1789
- Views: 470292
- 11 Jun 2025 18:13
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
- Replies: 10673
- Views: 3942177
Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
Unpredictable supply of water !! Most importantly.A Deshmukh wrote: ↑11 Jun 2025 14:07Before that, we need to soften them up internally - food riots, no fuel, no power.
- 10 Jun 2025 12:24
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Operation Sindoor - Post Conflict Analysis
- Replies: 1789
- Views: 470292
Re: Operation Sindoor - Post Conflict Analysis
TSP’s lack of depth is more a curse as the 4-day war has so thoroughly shown. One, we were able to effortlessly hit every nook & corner of TSP. There was no hiding place. We broke no sweat in swatting them. Secondly, we proved that such countries shouldn’t aspire to be nuclear powers, even setti...
- 09 Jun 2025 22:33
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Challenge of China_ Political, Economic & Military Responses
- Replies: 785
- Views: 553638
Re: Challenge of China_ Political, Economic & Military Responses
Xi's disappearance happens regularly. I do not read anything into it at all, even if it were true.
- 09 Jun 2025 22:29
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Indian Air Force News & Discussion - 23 March 2021
- Replies: 2700
- Views: 1502107
Re: Indian Air Force News & Discussion - 23 March 2021
^ The farcical DTTI programme between India and the US had I-Star as one of its flagship projects. By c. 2018 , it was revealed that both countries were involved in I-STAR under DTTI. The I-STAR was to get a business jet, modified with a synthetic aperture radar, capable of very high resolution at v...
- 09 Jun 2025 14:29
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Operation Sindoor - Post Conflict Analysis
- Replies: 1789
- Views: 470292
Re: Operation Sindoor - Post Conflict Analysis
Thank you for a technical, hilarious but increasingly factual state of affairs of the nuclear weapons of TSP.
Like for example, the ollapse of a quantum superposition state when measured ! Classic. Probably applies to every sphere of Pakistani activity.
- 08 Jun 2025 06:39
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Pakistan Armed Forces: News & Discussion
- Replies: 2487
- Views: 1430915
Re: Pakistan Armed Forces: News & Discussion
One thing about TSP, they sure move fast. Inducted in months? They move fast because of two reasons: One, they live just to fight India another day irrespective of increasing margins of defeat (and the latest one is very massive indeed). The greater the margin, the more sophisticated their purchase...
- 02 Jun 2025 20:59
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Indian Missiles News & Discussions - 30 June 2022
- Replies: 1774
- Views: 1542126
Re: Indian Missiles News & Discussions - 30 June 2022
. . . great to see local language media step in with such quality programs. As we know, the penetration is much much higher than english media and will help. Very true, we need to have vernacular penetration. At Chennai Centre for China Studies (C3S), we have produced several Tamil analyses on China.
- 02 Jun 2025 09:33
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Indian Missiles News & Discussions - 30 June 2022
- Replies: 1774
- Views: 1542126
Re: Indian Missiles News & Discussions - 30 June 2022
Thank you Anujan ji, for the transcript. Great work.
- 31 May 2025 21:33
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Operation Sindoor - Post Conflict Analysis
- Replies: 1789
- Views: 470292
Re: Operation Sindoor - Post Conflict Analysis
The Bloomberg interview shows another flaw, namely poor coordination between Indian embassy in S'pore and the delegation visiting SLD. The two should have discussed and denied an interview to a blatantly anti-India Bloomberg.
- 31 May 2025 19:42
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
- Replies: 10673
- Views: 3942177
Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
US President Donald Trump says, "Pakistan representatives are coming in next week. We're very close to making a deal with India. And I wouldn't have any interest in making a deal with either if they were going to be at war with each other..." From USTR site, U.S. total goods trade with Pa...
- 31 May 2025 19:34
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Indian Space Program: News & Discussion
- Replies: 1321
- Views: 1303307
Re: Indian Space Program: News & Discussion
Voice of ISRO launches Ganesan Grahadurai retires after 38 years - WION When a rocket launch mission by the Indian Space Agency (ISRO) is in progress, for journalists at the spaceport and those watching the live stream, only one voice matters - that of Ganesan Grahadurai. As the Range Operations Di...