Dragon on Our Doorstep Quotes

“President (General) Ayub Khan, who took over power in October 1958, came to meet Nehru in Delhi on 1 September 1959 with a military proposal.”
― Pravin Sawhney, Dragon on Our Doorstep: Managing China Through Military Power

“The late defence analyst K. Subrahmanyam wrote, ‘Politicians enjoy power without any responsibility, bureaucrats wield power without any accountability, and the military assumes responsibility without any direction.”
― Pravin Sawhney, Dragon on Our Doorstep: Managing China Through Military Power

“biggest mistake that the West has made in addressing the issue of radicalization is to dismiss the cause. It is almost impossible for a person, with the promise of a fulfilling life ahead, to choose death without a cause. Since we usually emulate the West, we are making the same mistake in Kashmir—dismissing insurgents as either misguided youth or denouncing them as terrorists, as if they are operating completely without a context.”
― Pravin Sawhney, Dragon on Our Doorstep: Managing China Through Military Power

“According to Colin Gray, director of the Centre for Strategic Studies at the University of Reading in the UK, ‘Making strategy is by far the most difficult and risky than making policy and war plans. By its very nature strategy is more demanding of the intellect and perhaps the imagination. Excellence in strategy requires the strategist to transcend simple categories of thought. Success”
― Pravin Sawhney, Dragon on Our Doorstep: Managing China Through Military Power

“The OBOR project seeks economic connectivity both on the Eurasian continent and in the Asia-Pacific and Indian Ocean regions. China has deduced that the viability and success of its OBOR project hinges on the flagship China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), which will link Kashgar in China to the Gwadar Port in Pakistan.”
― Pravin Sawhney, Dragon on Our Doorstep: Managing China Through Military Power