Gen. Shashi Asthana

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The author is a veteran Infantry General with 40 years experience in international fields and UN. A globally acknowledged strategic & military writer/analyst; he is currently the Chief Instructor of USI of India, the oldest Indian Think-tank in India.

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COVID-19 added new Dimension to Ongoing ‘Undeclared Third World War’

The outbreak of COVID-19 has demonstrated the destructive potential of virus as a weapon of mass destruction. It has added a new dimension to...

BRI to Health Silk Route: How COVID-19 is Changing Global Strategic Equations?

The beginning of 2020 brought a wild card entry into global strategic equations in the form of Coronavirus Pandemic, with Wuhan being the initial epicentre in...

Can Quad be Effective against Incremental Encroachment of China in Indo-Pacific Region?

The ‘Incremental Encroachment Strategy’ of China exhibited in South China Sea (SCS) is a serious concern not only to the countries directly affected by losing their...

Baghdadi Dead : What it means for Terrorism in West and South Asia?

President Trump’s announcement  that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the Islamic State(IS) commander, died during a US military operation in Syria, later confirmed by ISIS itself, was a...

Article 370 Revoked in Jammu & Kashmir rattles some Countries: Should India be Concerned?

The peaceful celebration of Eid although at reduced scale, demolishes the propaganda fueled by countries/media houses/politicians, who stand disappointed as they were waiting for violence to break...

Can Endstate of US-Iran Clash be better than JCPoA, 2015?

President Trump signed an executive order on 24 June, imposing additional economic sanctions on Iran. Apparently it’s in retaliation to shooting down of the US Drone by...

Peace in Afghanistan: Can US Recipe be cherished in Afghanistan ever?

After several rounds of US Taliban Peace Talks in Doha, the reluctantly agreed upon ‘so-called intra-Afghan dialogue’ scheduled on April 19, 2019 was abruptly...

China Chooses to Stand with Terrorists for the Fourth Time

It’s not a big surprise for any strategist that China has blocked the bid to have Jaish-e-Mohammed chief Masood Azhar designated a global terrorist for the fourth...

Decoding Pentagon Report on China January 2019

Amidst sequential escalation of US- China 'Heated cold war', Pentagon has released a new report on 16 January 2019, airing US concerns about China’s...

Is Strategic Balancing a ‘New Normal’ in Interlinked World?

The G-20 Summit 2018 will be remembered for extraordinary  large number of bilateral and trilateral meetings, which seem to be even more significant than...

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