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Manish Tewari

This handout picture taken and released by the Russian Defence Ministry on January 14, 2022 shows Russian troops unboarding a military cargo plane upon landing in Ivanovo after compleeting their mission in Kazakhstan. (AFP)

Manish Tewari | From Russia with love

According to information available in the public space, Russian forces are currently surrounding Ukraine from three sides

17 Jan 2022 2:42 AM

Drones have low Radar Cross Section (RCS), slow speed and a small size lending to its stealth and concealment advantages in battlefields, and thereafter, making it difficult to identify and localise. (Representative Image: ANI)

Manish Tewari | India needs to gear up for battle in world of drones

Today drones have become an important part of military arsenals across the world

02 Jan 2022 1:42 AM

Even more alarming is the human rights situation in Afghanistan with extrajudicial killings becoming the norm rather than the exception. (Representational Image/ AP)

Manish Tewari | Four months on, Taliban’s inner contradictions show

The ignominious exit of the US and the flight of President Ashraf Ghani still remains an enigma wrapped in a riddle and cloaked in a mystery

19 Dec 2021 2:48 AM

Police officer pays tribute to the martyrs at the Police Martyrs Memorial to mark the 13th anniversary of the 26/11 terror attacks, in Mumbai, Friday, Nov. 26, 2021. (PTI)

Manish Tewari | Why 26/11 required a kinetic response

It, however, is a serious matter of discussion as to how Pakistan perceived the policy of strategic restraint

05 Dec 2021 1:15 AM

Both General Yahya Khan and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the leader of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), did not want a federal government to be headed by Sheikh Mujibur Rehman of the predominantly East Pakistan-based Awami League. (Twitter)

Manish Tewari | November 21st, 1971

On March 25, 1971, the West Pakistan Army launched Operation Searchlight massacring

21 Nov 2021 2:21 AM

It is in this context Prime Minister Modi’s visit to the dominant seat of spiritual Anglo-Saxonism, the Vatican, and India’s participation in the nascent Western Quad need to be analyzed. (AFP)

Manish Tewari | An alliance of civilisations: Can it give India leverage?

In some nations there were regime changes while others descended into the morass of civil war from which they have still not emerged

07 Nov 2021 2:41 AM

In sharp divergence, China has resolved none of its maritime border disputes, with the exception of the Gulf of Tonkin dispute with Vietnam that was partially resolved after protracted negotiations spanning three rounds. Representational Image. (AFP)

Manish Tewari | After China-Bhutan deal, India requires fresh eyes

Doklam plateau. Both the Chumbi valley and the Siliguri Corridor in West Bengal are key tactical chokepoints

24 Oct 2021 2:56 AM

US President Joe Biden participates is a virtual press conference on national security with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson (R) and Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison in the East Room of the White House. (Photo: AFP/File)

Manish Tewari | AUKUS is the Asian Nato; should India revisit NAM?

The moot point remains, why did the US and, by extension, the UK, undercut their Nato partner France in this manner?

10 Oct 2021 8:45 AM

The total cost of war over the span of 20 years has been 2.3 trillion US dollars. (Photo: AP)

Manish Tewari | Why the US capitulated to Taliban in Afghanistan

Why did the United States after investing humungous amounts of blood and treasure in Afghanistan cut and run in this manner?

26 Sep 2021 2:12 AM

The Supreme Court in A.K. Gopalan v. Nordeen, 1969, held that a publication which is made after the “arrest” of a person amounts to contempt if it is biased to the suspect. (PTI Photo)

Manish Tewari | Social media lynch mobs subverting course of justice

Till the time the highest court has not spoken the above dictum remains the gold standard of both criminal and civil law

12 Sep 2021 2:59 AM

Such is the strategic importance attached to rare earths that President Xi Jinping has made it a habit to flex China’s Trade Muscle by visiting to Rare Earths Hub, mining sites and plants frequently. (Twitter)

Manish Tewari | The rare earth metal race: How India lost it to China

China currently controls nearly 90 per cent of the world’s REE mining and refinement and forms the bedrock of its global supply chain

29 Aug 2021 1:38 AM

Since India’s military reform process will be equally intricate, protracted, and even complicated with competing and conflicting demands, claims, issues, and even turf battles that would have to be reconciled, the legislature needs to play a far more pro-active role. Representational Image. (AFP)

Manish Tewari | Does India need theatre commands?

The combatant command President selects needs to have served in at least one joint responsibility role in a senior command position

01 Aug 2021 1:01 AM

No free lunch in diplomacy: India’s lesson in Afghanistan

It perhaps may be instructive for Indian strategic elites to acknowledge the American trajectory of leaving allies in the lurch

18 Jul 2021 1:45 AM

News.The Communist Party of China (CPC) celebrated a hundred years of its existence on the 1st of July. (AFP Photo)

Manish Tewari | Break the Chinese puzzle by studying CPC's game

The current commentary is about this distinctive organisation that lies at the heart of an emerging system of global dominance

04 Jul 2021 12:10 AM

Galwan clash was the most grave confrontation after the October 20 1975 ambush by the Chinese at Tulung La in which four Assam Rifles personnel lost their lives. (Representational image: PTI)

Manish Tewari | Modi pause on Chumar set the tone for Galwan

In Doklam, in the June of 2017, the NDA/BJP government was more interested in a propaganda triumph rather than a substantive outcome

20 Jun 2021 7:31 AM

Throughout the past seven years the government has used all means necessary to rupture the federal structure of the country. (Photo: PTI/File)

Manish Tewari | Acche Din: No one ever said it would be this hard

The Indian economy has tanked to its worst performing levels

06 Jun 2021 12:26 PM

The Shaksgam valley alone is home to 242 glaciers that can serve as the grand reservoir of fresh water for Chinese chip manufacturing. It, therefore, becomes imperative to view the Sino-Indian standoff through this technological lens also. (Photo: PTI)

Manish Tewari | War of the chips

The semiconductor industry requires two key resources sand and freshwater. They are the basic raw materials

23 May 2021 12:40 AM

Modernity with all its commitment to freedoms and reason is sought to be subordinated by monumental architecture to the will of the fascist state. (Photo: PTI)

Manish Tewari | The architecture of hubris

Fascism has a strange fascination with architecture

09 May 2021 12:00 AM

Mass cremation of COVID-19 victims at a crematorium as coronavirus cases surge, in New Delhi, Saturday, April 24, 2021. (Photo: PTI)

Manish Tewari | An AWOL government

Downright negligence, coupled with hubris, made the governments, both at the Centre and some in the states, let their guard down

25 Apr 2021 12:00 AM

What then are India’s options to protect its broader strategic interests, namely, keep the Chinese at bay. (Photo: AP)

Manish Tewari | The long view from New Delhi

The persisting stand-off with China must make India rethink its relationship structures both in the Asian and global context

11 Apr 2021 12:00 AM

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