United States

Examination of U.S. grand strategy, defence posture, Indo-Pacific engagement, NATO relations, and global leadership in an evolving multipolar world.

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…

Is Beijing planning to take Taiwan back … by force? SCMP

Sharing comments of mine  on articles by Minni Chan in South China Morning Post SCMP of 15 March 2018, along with my latest update on the issue as on 20 March 2018. When US President Donald Trump approved a travel…

Is Nuclear Blackmailing Theory going to be a New Normal? Is the World helpless in facing its dangerous Implications?

  As against high expectations from President Trump’s long tour of Asia, there seems to be  no change in North Korea flash point except ‘Old’ and ‘Fat’ jibes. It appears that world community at large seems to be settling down…

North Korea and South China Sea Flash-points: Are worthwhile Options left on US Table?

Sharing with friends my article published in Indian Defence Review on 06 October 17,  News mobile on 05 October 17, Future Directions Initiative(Australia) and Borderless News and other publications after updation, in different forms, as the subject has new developments…