Foreign Policy Forum Online.com

India to implement a $10 billion strategy for war against combined China and Pakistan forces

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 05:49:00 -0600

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh may have told the country�s parliament last month that he doesn�t expect an attack by China, but India�s military is taking no chances.

The world�s second-largest army, which celebrated its 64th Army Day on January 15, is on the cusp of implementing a major transformation in its organizational structure and war strategies to meet a possible combined threat from China and its ally Pakistan.

The change follows more than half a decade of annual exercises involving one of India�s three strike corps and a desert corps, which have engaged in operations to fine-tune a strategy that would enable India to take Pakistan by surprise.

Under this concept,

In India, the challenge of building 50,000 colleges

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 03:32:00 -0600

Here's a job most 27-year-olds never get: starting up a new university � from scratch. Like an Athenian at the dawn of Greece, Dhawal Sharma is converting 25 acres of farmland outside New Delhi worked by man and ox for millenniums into the kind of marble-and-grass campus that launches odysseys of the mind.

But Mr. Sharma, a recent business-school graduate, is also young enough to still be in a band. He drums in a metal-rock group that plays the songs of 1970s headbangers like Judas Priest.

"I really wonder if any other person who is doing the same job is as inexperienced as I am," says Sharma, who is the project manager for the future Ashoka University. "I've been told this in a number of government

China planning military base in Pakistan

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 03:43:00 -0600

China is planning a military base in Pakistan, India Today reported, citing "a secret report prepared by the government's joint intelligence committee."

According to the report:

China is keen to build military bases in FATA, or the Northern areas, while Pakistan wants to counterbalance Indian naval