General Upendra Dwivedi Takes Command As Chief Of The Army Staff
July 2, 2024
The overall mood has changed. A pall of weariness threatens to engulf India, even as dark clouds of aggression at the border make us squirm apprehensively. One of the many sly-cum-strategic goals of China seems to be on the verge of unnerving us. The unequivocal focus right now in our[Read More…]
If we recollect the historical events with China in the past six decades, we are all well-versed with the shared history between the two nations. But the new factor now is that China this time misunderstood India and it has underestimated India’s strength as compared to what we were in[Read More…]
The recent killings of Indian soldiers by the People’s Liberation Army of China exhibits China’s frustration and nothing else. China very well knows that a conventional war with India could be very hard hitting for it. And thus, the Chinese army has been provoking the Indian army at the Ladakh borders for the past few days that resulted into what appears to be an act of physical violence in which 20 Indian Army personnel were martyred though only after giving an equal blow.
Going back in history, Indian bureaucracy, and some in the Army too, cannot exorcise the ghost of 1962. The Chinese media takes advantage of this defeatist mindset and uses the narrative that India was humiliated in 1962 because the Indian Army (IA) was inferior to the Chinese Army (PLA). Indians,[Read More…]
Assam’s tryst with oil goes back to 1867, barely seven years after the first oil well in the world was discovered in Pennsylvania, USA. That place in Assam is known as Digboi and Digboi has the distinction of being Asia’s first refinery since 1901. In a nutshell, crude oil and gas[Read More…]
Mahan’s interpretation of seven ocean theatres including the great Indian Ocean never gets erroneous, even in the 21st century. As Mahan apprehended decorously the Indian Ocean region has curved an active hot zone of the current waves of power rivalry among great powers including arch competitors of the Asian region:[Read More…]
‘Wolf Warrior-2’ is an action-packed movie that was released three years ago in China. It stirred nationalist passion amongst the Chinese, to the extent that after a show, reportedly, the audience sang the national anthem in their cinema seats! Leng Feng, the film’s hero, the ‘Wolf Warrior’, is a retired[Read More…]
The Game changer – year 2020….. By far the most ruthless, scary and deadly! Perhaps a pattern scripted by God Almighty, Every 100 years pandemics have threatened humanity! Known as one of the deadliest pandemics in human history, Lasting from January 1918 to December 1920, Spanish flu swept across the[Read More…]
(Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in this article are solely of the Author and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of Defence and Security Alert Magazine, Owned by Ocean Media Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi.) Clouds of war are thundering over Ladakh. China claims Ladakh as part[Read More…]
As of now it is clear that China has indeed done enough homework to encircle India from all directions by engendering multiple intrusions, some in areas like Galwan where, there has never been a dispute as regards the actual alignment of the Line of Actual Control (LAC) between the two[Read More…]