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.

• Raj Shukla |
• April 02, 2010 |
• IDSA Comments

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.

• Rahul Mishra |
• April 01, 2010 |
• IDSA Comments

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

• Narinder Gupta |
• April 01, 2010 |
• IDSA Comments

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

• Ramesh Phadke |
• March 30, 2010 |
• IDSA Comments

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.

• Arvind Gupta |
• March 29, 2010 |
• IDSA Comments

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.

• Ali Ahmed |
• March 29, 2010 |
• IDSA Comments

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.

• Abanti Bhattacharya |
• March 25, 2010 |
• IDSA Comments

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.

• Narinder Gupta |
• March 18, 2010 |
• IDSA Comments

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

• Arvind Gupta |
• March 18, 2010 |
• IDSA Comments

Notwithstanding revelations about the secret nuclear pact, the Japan-US alliance is likely to remain strong and the East Asian security order will continue to be determined by the American presence

• Rajaram Panda |
• March 16, 2010 |
• IDSA Comments