Mainstream Weekly

Inter-services rivalry amongst armed forces: why it is bad? | Bhartendu Kumar Singh

Bhartendu Kumar Singh — 2021-07-16T08:05:46Z

Inter-services rivalry amongst armed forces is ubiquitous in most countries and India is not an exception to this competitive politics. Numerical predominance of Army in national defence architecture notwithstanding, modern warfare is mostly about optimising different services towards a joint warfare strategy. Therefore, when the Indian Air Force was recently described as a ‘supporting arm', it amounted to reassertion of ‘army being the mainstay of modern warfare system'. Such archival (…)

- 2021

Sino-Indian Relations and the Probabilities of War

Bhartendu Kumar Singh — 2009-09-09T18:06:03Z

No sooner had China and India concluded their 13th round of border talks by Special Representatives (SRs), came a suggestion from a Chinese strategist for balkanisation of India into several parts for decimating any possible challenge to Chinese supremacy (or hegemony) in the Asia-Pacific region. While offficials from both the countries dismissed the hypothesis, such reports are on the rise and emanate from both sides of the border. Only a few days back, the Chinese state-supported Global (…)

- September 2009

Cricket and India's Soft-power Miscarriages

Bhartendu Kumar Singh — 2007-05-19T09:54:27Z

The early exit of our ‘Team India' from the World Cup show in Caribbean Islands has jolted the billion-strong nation. No one had expected that cricket, which is as the most popular street game in India and has engendered household names like Tendulkar, Sehwag and Dhoni, would be a source of embarrassment for a rising country in global politics. That the defeat has come from our small backyard neighbours makes the embarrassment all the more enduring.
However, realists in the sports world (…)

- May 19, 2007