India @ 75: New Delhi’s security challenges and path forward

While the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War between Indian-Mukti Bahini forces and the Pakistani military has always been easy to remember for our resounding victory over our archenemy, the India-China border conflict of 1962 has always been difficult t...

Understanding Pakistan’s ‘deep state’ and its threat to world

The dictionaries describe the “deep state” as a large group of people comprising typically members of government agencies and the military with long-term agendas and goals through secret manipulation or control of government policy throug...

Afghanistan 4.0: Old battlefield, new alignments and India’s expected role

Taliban fighters riding a Humvee left by US forces, in Kabul.Afghanistan is transitioning from one crisis to another. Strategically located at the crossroads of the old silk route connecting the east with the west, Afghanistan and India have a strong...

Border guarding is much more than merely detecting tunnels

BSF troops patrol along the India-Pakistan border in Akhnoor, Jammu. (File photo)The recent detection of tunnel in Samba area of India-Pakistan border has generated a lot of brouhaha, and allegations of laxity and/or incompetence on part of Border Se...