Two stories: 1) Exclusive: Risking Beijing’s ire, Vietnam begins dredging on South China Sea reef … 2) Manila says will not help US on patrols in South China Sea So the US and Vietnam a…
Source: Mark Collins – South China Sea Update: Vietnam Building; Philippines Smacking US
Another azimut in the making, with a nuclear angle: Strong Japan-India ties can help stabilize the world, says Modi Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday [Nov. 11] praised the “growin…
The very knowledgeable Pakistani author Ahmed Rashid (pieces for the NY Review of Books here) excoriates his country’s government: Viewpoint: Pakistan’s Quetta attack blame game The att…
Source: Mark Collins – ISIS, Islamism and Pakistan’s CT Failure
Further to this post, En Flipping Fin: India Signs to buy 36 French Rafale Fighters one shudders to contemplate how long this process might go on–at Defense Industry Daily’s “Rapi…
Source: Mark Collins – Now India Wants to Build Foreign Single-Engine Fighter (Gripen? F-16?)
Further to this post from 2012, India and Pakistan: “Why Partition?” … (the Pakistanis have a long historical basis for some of their paranoia)… excerpts from a May 2015 article: Why Is…
Source: Mark Collins – How Pakistanis Remember Partition of India and Events Leading Thereto
Further to this post, The Asian Military Cockpit, Kashmir Section matters are indeed getting pretty hairy: India says hits Pakistan-based militants, escalating tension Indian officials said elite t…
Source: Mark Collins – Oh, Oh! Indian Troops Raid Pakistani Kashmir
Further to this July post, “Absurd”: Continuing India/France Rafale Fighter Buy Balls-Up, Part 2 (plus Gripen) this seemingly almost endless Indian procurement saga (ring any bells in the Great Whi…
Source: Mark Collins – En Flipping Fin: India Signs to buy 36 French Rafale Fighters
Further to this July post, Bloody Weekend in Indian Kashmir (Canadian media ignore) things could get very hairy in a most dangerous part of the (nuclear-armed) world: The Indian Army Just Suffered …
Source: Mark Collins – The Asian Military Cockpit, Kashmir Section
Further to these posts: US SecDef Carter in India Pushing Military Cooperation (note link at last para–tous azimuts) Indian PM Modi in Washington–Goes for Defence Cooperation the SecDef and t…
Source: Mark Collins – Eagle’s India Full Court Press (unhappy Paks)
Further to these posts from last year and this January, India vs Pakistan, RAW vs ISI: Baluchistan, Karachi, Kashmir Elsewhere Pak Miscreancy vs India, or, ISI the Indian prime minister is most und…
Source: Mark Collins – Indian PM Modi Pours (RAW) Fat on Pakistan’s Baluchistan Fire
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