IDSA COMMENT

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

Political Dimensions of Limited War

While limitation in aims set is acknowledged as the primary way of conflict limitation, the point lost sight of usually on the politico-military facet is war termination.

March 29, 2010

As China prepares for post-Dalai Lama Tibet, what is India to do with the Tibetan Exiles?

While China has shown eagerness for the Dalai Lama’s return to China, it has categorically refused to take back the exiled Tibetan population based in India.

March 25, 2010

Pakistan wants to play a central role in the Afghan settlement

Karzai’s use of the word ‘proxy war’ in relation to India’s reconstruction and rehabilitation efforts can only be understood in view of the West’s fatigue in Afghanistan and the growing importance of Pakistan

March 18, 2010

Defence Budgetary Allocation 2010-11: Adequacy vs. Usage

Adequacy or inadequacy of defence allocation largely lies in the manner it is spent keeping in view the defence requirements for meeting operational and strategic goals and to have the needed defence preparedness to deal with threats.

March 18, 2010

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