Whatever the other effects of the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, it has transformed global geopolitics. It sparked four notable geopolitical events. Apprehending China as potentially the principal beneficiary of the emerging order in Central Asia and, through its most important regional client, Pakistan, in southern Asia and, possibly, the Indian Ocean region as well, the United States countered with a new military alliance with its old Anglo-saxon partners &#; AUKUS (Australia, United Kingdom and US) to replace the moribund Cold War-era ANZUS (Australia, New Zealand, US).
Paris reacted with vehemence with a visibly agitated French foreign minister Jean-Yves Le Drian calling it a “stab in the back”. Not only because France lost a US$ 65 billion contract with Australia for its Barracuda diesel submarine that would have kept its high-tech military sector in the clover for a while but because a supposedly trusted, traditional ally, the US, trumped it by offering a nuclear-powered attack submarine (SSN) along with its production expertise, something Canberra could not refuse. It led to Paris renewing its call for a European security alliance that German
Bharat Karnad
BHARAT KARNAD is Emeritus Professor for National Security Studies, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi and Distinguished Fellow at the United Service Institution of India. His most recent book, Staggering Forward: Narendra Modi and India’s Global Ambition was published by Penguin in September Previous books include Why India is Not a Great Power (Yet) (Oxford University Press, October ), Strategic Sellout: India-US Nuclear Deal (), India&#;s Nuclear Policy (Praeger, ), Nuclear Weapons and Indian Security: The Realist Foundations of Strategy, now in its second edition (Macmillan, , ), and Future Imperilled: India’s Security in the s and Beyond (Viking-Penguin, ) .
He was Member of the (First) National Security Advisory Board, Member of the Nuclear Doctrine-drafting Group, National Security Council, Government of India, and, formerly, Advisor on Defence Expenditure to the Finance Commission, India.
Educated at the University of California (B.A., Santa Barbara; M.A., Los Angeles), he has been a Visiting Scholar at Princeton University, University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne, and Foreign Fellow at the
Who is Bharat Karnad?
Bharat Karnad is a ResearchProfessor in NationalSecurityStudies at the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi. He is the author of India's NuclearPolicy [Praeger, ], NuclearWeapons and Indian Security: The RealistFoundations of Strategy [Macmillan India, , ] and author-editor of Future Imperilled: India's Security in the s and Beyond [Viking-Penguin India, ]. He was a Member of the NationalSecurityAdvisory Board, NationalSecurity Council, Government of India, and Member of the NuclearDoctrineDrafting Group, and formerly Advisor, DefenseExpenditure to the Finance Commission, India. He is a regularlecturer at the highestmilitarytraininginstitutions and forums and conducts an annualStrategicNuclearOrientationCourse for seniorarmedforcesofficers for the IntegratedDefense Staff, Ministry of Defense.
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The external affairs minister, S Jaishankar, for some reason, dislikes &#;polemics&#;. Derived from the Greek word for war, polemos, and defined by Oxford Dictionary as &#;a strong verbal or written attack&#; and as the &#;practice of engaging in fierce discussion&#;, he has time and again attacked those he claims indulge in it. Because over the last 25 years, no other policy analyst or commentator has so consistently, relentlessly, substantively, and harshly criticized the country&#;s extant foreign and national security policies, and questioned the quality and credibility of India&#;s nuclear arsenal and related deterrence strategy &#; a particular bugaboo with Jaishankar &#; and fleshed out hardline alternatives to existing policies in some six-odd books and innumerable writings, I presume, his diatribes are directed at me! Whence this response.
Curiously, Jaishankar&#;s father, the late K. Subrahmanyham (KS), whose views he often indirectly invokes, and alludes to, if only to validate his own &#;realist&#; take on the world, appreciated &#; even if he did not wholly accept &#; my approach, that Jaishankar derides. KS and I agreed on almost nothing but our exchanges in
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