Middle East

Strategic evaluation of Middle East conflicts, regional rivalries, energy security, Israel–Iran dynamics, and great power competition in West Asia.

Video Analysis and Presentations – Major General S B Asthana (Veteran)

Changing Global Equations due to COVID-19 and Shifting Global Order Sharing a video of mine on WION News on the subject. (5 minute video watch). The beginning of 2020 brought a wild card entry into global strategic equations in the form…

Videos of Major General S B Asthana 2020 on TV News Chanels

With Advantage India, Will Xi Jinping Walk The Talk On LAC ? | The Rig… Defence expert Major General S B Asthana (retd) speaks on PM Modi’s surprise visit to Ladakh

Baghdadi Dead : How it impacts Terrorism in West and South Asia?

  Sharing with friends the content of my article published in Modern Diplomacy (EU), Indian Defence Review, WION News, many newspapers, journals and web portals in different forms and as a news feed from IANS and other agencies. Some of…

The US-Iran Standoff: Is someone controlling escalation dynamics to prevent avoidable disaster?

The situation in Gulf continues to be tensed since two weeks, as Iran threatens UK to take retaliatory actions over seizure of Iranian tanker off the coast of Spain by UK, which Iran alleges has been done to prevent its…

Videos of TV Discussions (National TV) Major General S B Asthana in English 2019 (2)

Sharing my TV discussions/Interviews/Speeches in English on National Television Defence expert Major General S B Asthana (retd) speaks on PM Modi’s surprise visit to Ladakh in an interview on Doordarshan. The new Pakistan PM Shahid Khan Abbasi, in an interview…

India Must Prepare to Face US Sanctions, Continue with Russia-Iran

India Must Prepare to Face US Sanctions, Continue with Russia-Iran       | Maj Gen S B Asthana, SM, VSM – 14 Oct 2018 India Must Prepare to Face US Sanctions, Continue with Russia-Iran       By Major General S B Asthana, SM,…