Articles/opinion

Articles and opinion of S B asthana on Geo-politics and strategic affairs

Tibetan Water and Trans-Border Rivers: Concerns for India

The 11th meeting of the Expert Level Mechanism (ELM) on Trans-Border Rivers between India and China, concluded at Hangzhou, in end March with solitary worthwhile mention-able outcome that China will resume sharing of the hydro-logical data on downstream rivers especially  Brahmputra River, which…

Why Separatists being protected by J&K Government? Son becomes militant after enjoying all perks.

The country has been asking this question from the Kashmir Government since last two decades, more so after NIA started investigations to reconfirm that the separatists are the biggest conduits for terror funding, as to why they are being protected…

Does Indian Military requires Apex Level Restructuring and Integrated Theatre Commands like US and PLA?

    A fresh wave of speculations and discussions has triggered recently about Integrated Theatre Commands in India, when some media sources broke the news of notifications wherein an officer of one Service can exercise direct command over personnel of…

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…