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Exclusive: China Rotates Troops In Aksai Chin

by Nitin A Gokhale

27 Apr/21

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NEW DELHI: China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has rotated two large field formations it had deployed along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Ladakh in 2020-21 by inducting two fresh divisions earlier this month, Indian military and intelligence sources have revealed. In 2020, China’s move towards the LAC with…

Why Manohar Parrikar’s biggest contribution to Defence Ministry was breaking the Rafale logjam

by Nitin A Gokhale

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31 Mar/21

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Manohar Parrikar’s biggest contribution was to break the Rafale logjam. For six years, India had been unable to decide on how to buy the French-made combat jets because of the faulty procedure adopted by the MoD under the then Defence Minister A.K. Antony. It is to Parrikar’s credit that he…

When Army Thwarted Chinese Move On Arunachal Border During Kargil

by Nitin A Gokhale

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01 Oct/20

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NEW DELHI: China had tried to needle India on the Arunachal border during Kargil conflict in 1999. How was that crisis handled? The story has never been told. Until now. Narrating what happened on the ground are Lt Gen DB Shekatkar (retd), Maj Gen VDI Devavaram (retd) and Maj Gen…

Turning The Tables In Chushul: Latest Update From Ladakh

by Nitin A Gokhale

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01 Sep/20

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NEW DELHI: Join us Live at 1930Hrs IST for the latest updates from Ladakh

BRI Comes With Subtle But Powerful Baggage Of Discourse: Australian Academic Clive Hamilton

by Nitin A Gokhale

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01 Sep/20

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NEW DELHI: Chinese President Xi Jinping’s signature project—The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)—is disconcerting for many countries. It is projected as a means for other countries to benefit from China’s capital and infrastructure-building capacity but in China it is seen as a grand project that will help assert China’s strategic…