March 1, 2021
| Opening front | |
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SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 2016: Political turmoil is rampant on both sides of the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir. China and Pakistan have held joint military exercises in Pakistan |
| Cheap mindset | |
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JULY-AUGUST 2016: China has become a teacher in matters pertaining to non proliferation regime and issues involving its conduct among technologically superior nations who are |
| Neutralizing threat | |
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MAY-JUNE 2016: As prime Indian
military objective in the event of an outbreak of hostilities between a
Pakistan-China collusive alliance against India, STRATEGIC AFFAIRS in |
| First move | |
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MARCH-APRIL 2016: A nation that feels itself hemmed in by hostile neighbors needs to look for ways to preserve its own national interests through diplomatic means before it rushes into a conflict situation that will exacerbate the collusive arrangement that it sees as a threat. |
| Calculate to disrupt | |
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JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2016: Any military action
requires political will. Does the Bharatiya Janta Party which leads the
National Democratic Alliance government at the Centre have the political |
| Dominating landscape | |
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NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2015: By dint of constant
deployment over decades in the Himalayas in some of the highest
battlefields in the world, Indian troops have accumulated |
| Defending territory | |
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SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 2015: China has fallen back on an old blueprint to keep India unbalanced. It has revived the insurgencies in the North-east and extended the proxy war to India’s western sector, giving the Pakistan Army encouragement to exacerbate tensions by frequent violations of the ceasefire and deadly cross-LoC attacks. The statement during the Ufa summit in Russia that there is insufficient evidence to jail the persons indicted by |
| Autonomous warriors | |
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JULY-AUGUST 2015: Militaries around the
world are looking for ways to introduce armoured unmanned ground
vehicles to protect the soldier from boobytraps and improvised |
| Doubt persists | |
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MAY-JUNE 2015: After an out of box , surprise solution was evolved by Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his visit to Paris in mid-April for urgently meeting the fighter requirements of the IAF. A high level negotiating team from India headed by Air Marshal SBP Sinha from the Air Headquarters is in the advanced stage of the negotiations with the French team. |
| Slow pace | |
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MARCH-APRIL 2015: Though the sanction for 814 artillery guns worth Rs 15,750 crore (US$ 2.56 billion) was cleared last November, by the Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar headed Defence |