IDSA COMMENT

Tackling Naxalism: Post-Dantewada

If naxal activities have to be stopped, the government must act firmly even if they have to be neutralized by the selective use of the armed forces including the Indian Air Force.

April 08, 2010

End Game on Iran’s Nuclear Intransigence?

With the possibility of ‘smart’ sanctions in the near future and muscular US military moves in the Persian Gulf, the grids for the end game on Iran’s nuclear intransigence are getting strengthened.

April 07, 2010

Getting Ready for a Hot Summer

The defence minister is indeed correct that ‘sacrifices’ would have to be made but this time India should offer that privilege to the Pakistani Army.

April 05, 2010

Google China ‘Warfare’: Turning a non issue to win-win strategy

If freedom of expression was the issue then other American internet service companies like Microsoft and Yahoo! should have also exited China along with Google.

April 05, 2010

Earth Hour 2010 and India

India has to not only fight over-consumption of resources in metropolitan cities but also make sure that the resources saved percolate down to its rural areas.

April 05, 2010

Af-Pak and India’s Strategic Innocence

Afghanistan was a test case for our foreign policy resolve, an arena where while leveraging other tools of foreign policy, use of instruments of force and military diplomacy/intelligence should have been predominant.

April 02, 2010

Locating Singapore in India’s Strategic Radar

India needs to engage Singapore more robustly so as to enable the forging of deeper and more broad-based friendships in the Southeast Asian region through Singapore’s good offices.

April 01, 2010

Building Road Infrastructure along the Line of Actual Control: Hurdles and Constraints

Though the target date for completing the 73 envisaged roads is 2012, only nine have so far been completed.

April 01, 2010

Reprioritising Defence Acquisitions

The Indian armed forces appear to be driving defence budgets rather than a cold calculation of the country’s desire for ‘adequate’ military capability.

March 30, 2010

Vicious anti-India propaganda in Pakistan on Water issues

Though the Indus Water Treaty apportions 80 per cent of the waters of the Indus River Basin to Pakistan and only 20 per cent to India, Pakistan is engaged in baseless allegations to inflame public opinion and project India as its number one threat.

March 29, 2010

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