The Writings of M D Nalapat

M.D. Nalapat Manipal, India — The 1989 defeat of the Soviet Union in Afghanistan was a tactical victory, but a strategic defeat for ...

By M D Nalapat Kayani wanted an Indian mobilisation. He should not get it. War is not the option, at least for the present. And it is sur...

M.D. Nalapat Manipal, India -  Pakistan's U.S.-approved chief of army staff, Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, wanted a less unpredictable p...

M.D. Nalapat Manipal, India — Since the terror attacks on Mumbai five days ago, key Western intelligence agencies have been shown do...

M.D. Nalapat  MANIPAL, India, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- Since the terror attacks on Mumbai five days ago, Indian security sources have promoted ev...

M.D. Nalapat Manipal, India — In 2004, this columnist annoyed some of his U.S. friends by rooting for George W. Bush for the U.S. pr...

M.D. Nalapat Manipal, India — It must be wonderful to believe that the rest of the world shares one's own self-perceptions of omni...

M.D. Nalapat Manipal, India — There are indeed parallels between the insurgents in Iraq and the Taliban. Both have brown complexions a...

 M.D. Nalapat Manipal, India — It is small wonder that Pakistan's army chief, Parvez Ashfaq Kiyani, prefers to dial the number of th...

M.D. Nalapat Manipal, India — Founded as it was by a bacon-friendly, whiskey-drinking Muhammad Ali Jinnah, by the end of the 1950s –...

M .D. Nalapat Manipal, India — Contrary to the expectations of Congress Party boss Sonia Gandhi and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Sin...

M.D. Nalapat Manipal, India — After Pervez Musharraf himself, the individual who will be most nervous at the resignation of Pakistan...

M.D. Nalapat Manipal, India — The Soviet Union became a superpower during the rule of Josef Stalin, who terrorized those territories...

M.D. Nalapat  Manipal, India — On July 22, should India's ruling alliance win its trust vote in Parliament, Prime Minister Manmo...

M.D. Nalapat Manipal, India — Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe represents the other side of apartheid – the forced segregation...

M.D. Nalapat Manipal, India — Although the prime minister of Iraq Nuri al-Maliki has survived physically and politically in his job,...

M.D. Nalapat Manipal, India — Should another hurricane like Katrina hit the United States, perhaps in Florida, and Cuban leader Raul...

M.D. Nalapat Manipal, India — Despite substantial effort by the administration of Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf to ensure a m...

Manipal, India — U.S. policies often affect the globe, and hence the global interest in U.S. politics. Although Australian feminist Germ...

In 1997, when this analyst predicted that the Peoples Republic of China would emerge within two decades as the next economic superpower,...