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Articles by Manoj Joshi

India-Russia relations: A tightrope walk amid churn in global equations

The Russia-India connection has remained constant over decades because ties have had an identity of interests all through. (ANI)

Updated on Dec 7, 2025 16:08 IST

Different threads in Red Fort bomb blast

After 2005, it was only in 2019 that bomb blasts returned to J&K when a JeM suicide bomber blew up a bus near Pulwama. (H Archive)

Updated on Nov 17, 2025 15:35 IST

Opportunity for India in US shift in nuclear policy

There are important reasons for India to assure itself that it has a thermonuclear weapon that works, because it has also made a defensive “no-first-use” nuclear pledge. (HT Archive)

Updated on Oct 31, 2025 15:55 IST

India-Russia ties and the heft of its history

The European blockade of Russia has finally begun to push it to develop its relations with the Global South, and India is seen as a bridge here. (Sputnik via REUTERS)

Updated on Sep 17, 2025 14:53 IST

Why China refuses to resolve the border issue

Under the Political Parameters Agreement, the two sides had sought to resolve the boundary question on “political’ grounds. (ANI)

Updated on Jul 23, 2025 15:44 IST

A punitive and effective response to Pahalgam

Given the sheer scale of the Pahalgam massacre, some manner of deterrent action was a must. The government has come through with one (Hindustan Times)

Updated on Apr 24, 2025 14:26 IST

Beijing in President Trump’s policy shop

FILE - Traditional Russian wooden dolls called Matryoshka depicting China's President Xi Jinping, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin are displayed for sale at a souvenir shop in St. Petersburg, Russia on Nov. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky, File) (AP)

Updated on Jan 22, 2025 14:37 IST

Pragmatism undergirds New Delhi’s China policy

Rio de Janeiro [Brazil], Nov 19 (ANI): External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar meets Foreign Minister of China, Wang Yi on the sidelines of the 19th G-20 summit, in Rio de Janeiro. (ANI Photo) (Dr. S. Jaishankar-X)

Updated on Dec 17, 2024 15:42 IST

Jammu and Kashmir polls and Islamabad’s shadow

Jammu, Oct 01 (ANI): Voters wait in a queue to cast their votes for the final phase of the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly elections, at a polling station, in Jammu on Tuesday. (ANI Photo) (Shanky Rathore)

Updated on Oct 6, 2024 18:23 IST

Kargil’s bitter lessons helped guide India’s defence reform

Thane, India - July.26,2019: School Students raise patriotic slogans after paying tribute at War Memorial to commemorate Kargil Vijay Diwas at Kopri Thane ,India, on Friday, July 26, 2019. ( Praful Gangurde/ HT Photo)

Updated on Jul 25, 2024 15:35 IST

Recalibrating relations with China, Pakistan

This picture taken on May 19, 2024, shows Rezang la War Memorial in Eastern Ladakh. (Photo by TAUSEEF MUSTAFA / AFP) (AFP)

Updated on Jun 28, 2024 15:31 IST

China in mind, Japan set for defence rehaul

U.S. President Joe Biden escorts Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and Japan Prime Minister Fumio Kishida to their trilateral summit at the White House in Washington, U.S., April 11, 2024. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

Updated on Apr 29, 2024 17:57 IST

Stalemate in Ukraine, NATO in expansion

This grab taken from a handout footage released by the Russian Defence Ministry on March 12, 2024 reportedly shows a destroyed military vehicle of the Ukrainian troops in the border area between Russia and Ukraine in the Belgorod region.

Updated on Mar 13, 2024 16:35 IST

Armed forces wait for a funds boost from Budget

Armed forces contingents were seen marching to drumbeats during dress rehearsals for the 75th Republic Day parade at the Kartavya Path in the national capital on Saturday.

Updated on Jan 26, 2024 16:43 IST

By targeting civilians, Israel lost the narrative

An Israeli military helicopter flies near the Israeli-Gaza border, as seen from southern Israel, Monday, Jan. 1, 2024. The army is battling Palestinian militants across Gaza in the war ignited by Hamas' Oct. 7 attack into Israel. (AP/PTI) (AP01_01_2024_000303A)

Updated on Jan 1, 2024 16:43 IST

Excerpt: Understanding the India China Border by Manoj Joshi

A signboard seen from the Indian side of the Indo-China border at Bumla, in Arunachal Pradesh in a picture dated November 11, 2009. (Adnan Abidi /REUTERS)

Updated on Apr 8, 2023 07:39 IST

Defence indigenisation can’t happen overnight

Speaking in Pune in January, army chief General Manoj Pande said that the ongoing conflict had brought to the fore “the impact of asymmetric warfare, potential of information warfare, digital resilience, weaponisation of the economic mechanism, communications redundancy, space-based systems and many more — all driven by technological prowess.” (PTI)

Updated on Mar 9, 2023 02:28 IST

US-China relation is at an inflection point

The US knows China has the capacity to play catch up in the semiconductor sector. So, its strategy is to delay Chinese advances (REUTERS)

Updated on Jan 4, 2023 03:44 IST

What a third Xi term means for India

People watch an outdoor screen showing the live speech of Chinese President Xi Jinping, October 16, 2022 (AFP)

Updated on Oct 16, 2022 15:05 IST

New CDS will have to hit the ground running

General Anil Chauhan has all the qualifications for the job. His career includes serving as army commander of the Eastern Command, director-general of military operations and military adviser to the National Security Council Secretariat (PIB)

Updated on Sep 30, 2022 14:25 IST

The delay in appointing a new CDS is disappointing

In his 2019 Independence Day speech, Prime Minister Narendra Modi came up with the surprise announcement of a CDS who would be the permanent chairman of the Chiefs of Staff Committee (CoSC) and principal adviser to the defence minister. He would administer all tri-service organisations, including those of cyber and space, and also be the military adviser to the Nuclear Command Authority. (Manish Swarup/HT PHOTO)

Updated on Aug 12, 2022 12:42 IST

US needs to bridge its deep social cleavages

The US possesses enormous geopolitical and technological power. But even a country as unique as the US will get no free pass to get there (AFP)

Updated on Jul 6, 2022 16:12 IST

Of victory and defeat in the Russia-Ukraine war

The “special military operation” was carried out without regard for the civilian population. Cities have been devastated and millions made refugees. But, by the measure of its initial claim, the Russian operation has failed.

Updated on May 18, 2022 14:34 IST

Why Beijing finds itself in a geopolitical obstacle race

The biggest cost that China is paying is that it remains closed off from the world. Even as barriers are being lowered elsewhere, China finds itself caught in a bind.

Updated on Mar 31, 2022 17:13 IST

Breaking with Russia on defence is difficult

The Russian arms industry is in the cross-hairs of the Americans, and Delhi and Moscow will have to come up with solutions to keep the relationship going. One move would be to revert to the old rupee-ruble trade.

Updated on Mar 8, 2022 14:28 IST

Reveal India’s nuclear command structure

What is NCA’s succession plan in the event of a nuclear strike that takes out Lutyens Delhi and the entire CCS? (Ravi Choudhary/HT PHOTO)

Updated on Feb 22, 2022 14:00 IST

The 1971 war: India won the battle, but couldn’t go all the way

The politico-military machinery that gave us the splendid victory in the East did not do it in the West, and then again in Simla. And we’re still facing the ramifications of that. (FILE PHOTO)

Updated on Dec 23, 2021 18:08 IST

Is the India-China conflict intractable?

India may be weaker than China, but it is strong enough to ensure that any conflict would be mutually destructive. The modus vivendi of the kind that operated between 1990-2020 looks difficult. But cooperation in some managed form offers advantages to both (PTI)

Updated on Nov 14, 2021 13:06 IST

The China-Bhutan border deal should worry India

In South Asia, China sees Bhutan, where it does not yet have an embassy, as the last frontier. So far, Thimphu has successfully walked the tightrope between its two giant neighbours, even while making it clear that it would not like to play New Delhi off against Beijing (ANI)

Updated on Oct 19, 2021 13:26 IST

The last thing Beijing needs at this time is a trade war

A combination of file photos of US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping. There was a touch of Trump’s prime time show The Apprentice in the flourish with which he declared that he would extend a life-saver to the Chinese telecom giant ZTE which was on a death watch after the impositions of US sanctions by his own administration.

Updated on May 23, 2018 02:06 IST

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