Armchair Strategist Podcast
1) Looking Back, Looking Forward
In the final episode of Armchair Strategist's opening season, we end with a conversation with our colleague Dr Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan, Distinguished Fellow and Head of Nuclear & Space Polic...Show More
2) CPEC
With a range of connectivity and infrastructure projects across Pakistan, the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor is a crucial foothold for the PRC in South Asia and a gateway to the Indian Ocean. As Chi...Show More
3) The Chinese Military Challenge II: Military Innovation and Emerging Strategic Technologies
In this episode of Armchair Strategist, we’re taking the conversation beyond the conventional military balance and looking at advancements India and China have been making in emerging technologies tha...Show More
The Chinese Military Challenge II: Military Innovation and Emerging Strategic Technologies
1:05:06 | Oct 20th, 2020
4) The Chinese Military Challenge I: The Conventional Balance
India-China tensions on land show no signs of abating, and the maritime space is also increasingly contested. As competition between the two Asian powers heats up, Armchair Strategist is exploring how...Show More
5) In the trenches: Women in the military
Women in uniform are not a rarity in India -- think police and paramilitary services. However, when it comes women in the armed forces, we've been witness to milestones one at a time, the most re...Show More
6) Agitated Waters: Securing the Indian Ocean
The Indian Ocean is the lynchpin in India's Indo-Pacific vision. Some 80% of global seaborne trade passes through the Indian Ocean Region, including critical energy supplies for both India and Ch...Show More
7) Hidden Costs, Open Challenges: India’s economic dependence on China
Even as the India-China border dispute has now acquired an economic dimension, the asymmetric economic relationship between India and China already exposes India to certain security and strategic risk...Show More
8) Border and more: Talking India-China ties
Even as New Delhi faces the immediate challenge of defusing tensions at the border, it also faces the necessary task of re-thinking its engagement with China, eyes wide open. Has Galwan been the push ...Show More
9) Dealing with China: The role of external alignments
The recent border crisis has not only shifted India’s gears with respect to China, but also elicited interesting responses from Washington and Moscow. Early US tentativeness gave way to more vocal sup...Show More
10) Crisis at the Border - A Practitioner's Perspective
In our first episode of Armchair Strategist, we kick things off with the topic du jour – India and China facing off in Ladakh. The crisis has seen the first fatalities at the Line of Actual Control in...Show More