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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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...

Twists and Turns in US -China Trade War

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s stopover at Beijing on 08 October may not have been a pleasant experience, more so in the backdrop...

Can Trump’s Offer for Summit lead to better Deal with Iran than JCPoA 2015?

The announcement of President Trump last week expressing his willingness to hold a summit with Iran with ‘no preconditions’, after a chain of threatening...

China’s ‘Debt Trap’ for Pakistan: Dilutes FATF Ruling

Under normal circumstances, a one billion dollar loan between two sovereign countries would have gone unnoticed by global community, but what makes China’s one...

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