Indo-Pacific

Analysis of Indo-Pacific security architecture, QUAD, maritime strategy, South China Sea tensions, and regional balance of power dynamics.

South China Sea Disputes and Southeastern Asian Countries.(Interview of Major General S B Asthana by SCMP)

Looking at South China Sea dispute today, the game of military posturing continues with China’s incremental encroachment in the region and infrastructure development (including military infrastructure), and similar countermoves and military postures to ensure freedom of navigation by US (including…

North Korea Blinks: Is it Real or a Ploy to Minimise Sanctions?

Sharing my article published in the Journal of the United Service Institution of India, Vol. CXLVIII, No. 611, January-March 2018. As the world waits for the Trump-Kim Summit, preceded by the flip-flop by all sides to keep the Summit alive is a compulsion in light of…

Interview of Maj Gen Asthana by Global Review, Politik und Kritik weltweit (Germany) on multifarious Global Issues.

I am sharing with friends my interview with Global Review ( Germany). The interviewer is  Ralf Ostener. The interviewer has questioned on a very wide range of global issues to include Multi-polarity and ‘Great Power Relations, UNO Reforms, Global organisations…