Given that allocations for revenue expenditure are likely to become lesser in coming years, defence managers need to initiate immediate measures to control the rising revenue expenditure.

• Arvind Kadyan |
• March 03, 2010 |
• IDSA Comments

If the Finance Ministry’s emphasis on fiscal prudence and inclusive growth has resulted in a smaller increase in the latest defence budget, the Report of the Thirteenth Finance Commission does not paint a very optimistic scenario for India’s future defence spending.

• Laxman Kumar Behera |
• March 03, 2010 |
• IDSA Comments

With Hatoyama’s determination to wrest policymaking power from bureaucrats in full swing, Japan is likely to witness an intense battle between the political masters and the powerful bureaucrats for supremacy.

• Rajaram Panda |
• March 02, 2010 |
• IDSA Comments

Since both India and EU face the same threat of religious radicalism at home and from across the border, focused cooperation on this issue must be given serious thought.

• Alok Rashmi Mukhopadhyay |
• February 26, 2010 |
• IDSA Comments

To prevent intelligence failures there is a need to incorporate the additional and fresh areas of intelligence interest brought on by the asymmetric and nuclear dimensions of future conflict.

• Ali Ahmed |
• February 26, 2010 |
• IDSA Comments

With APEC accounting for half the world’s global economic output and 44 per cent of its trade value, Japan’s role in creating a region wide free-trade zone and developing a strategy for economic growth of the Asia Pacific is expected to be decisive for the world economy.

• Pranamita Baruah |
• February 25, 2010 |
• IDSA Comments

The resumption of India-Pakistan dialogue is closely linked with US moves in Afghanistan in the context of Obama’s publicly declared intent to begin the process of US military withdrawal from Afghanistan from 2011.

• P. K. Upadhyay |
• February 25, 2010 |
• IDSA Comments

The Dutch withdrawal from Afghanistan may have cascading effects, as smaller European countries notwithstanding their importance in contribution or numerical strength, may also announce their exit citing their own national caveats in the months to come.

• Alok Rashmi Mukhopadhyay |
• February 23, 2010 |
• IDSA Comments

Modernisation has been grossly inadequate in the field of command, control and communications systems that link the ‘shooters’ and ‘sensors’ together to achieve synergy through network centricity and effects-based operations.

• Gurmeet Kanwal |
• February 16, 2010 |
• IDSA Comments

The delicately maintained peace in the Korean peninsula once again looks fragile in the wake of the war of words and exchange of artillery fire along the disputed western sea border in January 2010.

• Rajaram Panda |
• February 15, 2010 |
• IDSA Comments