International attention is increasingly focusing on China and modernisation of the Chinese People's Liberation Army. China holds the key to regional stability in Asia and is inching ahead to become a peer and competitor of United States or the global influence in the next century. The extent to...

In ‘The Art of War’, Sun Tzu warns, “Warfare is the greatest affair of state, the basis of life and death, the Way [Tao] to survival or extinction. It must be thoroughly pondered and analyzed.” Strategy bears directly upon the first duty of the government i.e. ‘the duty to provide...

While most of the media’s attention has been focused on Iran and North Korea and their nuclear ambitions, a full-throttle nuclear arms race is now underway in another part of the world where terrorism, ethnic violence, religious extremism, border disputes and political instability are endemic....