The Doklam standoff has emerged as a litmus test for India in terms of how resolutely it can stand up against an increasingly hegemonic China to protect the interests of Bhutan as well as its own interests.

• Ashok Sajjanhar |
• August 11, 2017 |
• IDSA Comments

To effectively cope with the PRC’s hostile attitude, India needs to reduce the power asymmetry, articulate a clear security policy based on a realistic threat assessment, reorganise the military, and revamp the border management mechanism.

• G.G. Dwivedi |
• August 11, 2017 |
• IDSA Comments

While decades of counterinsurgency operations and peace processes have taken the sting out of the region’s major insurgencies, collaboration between groups continues to pose security challenges, particularly in the exploitable border areas adjacent to the upper Sagaing Region of Northwest Myanmar.

• Alex Waterman |
• August 10, 2017 |
• IDSA Comments

It will take some time before the PLA can claim to be a modern military, at par with Western armies, capable of undertaking extended global missions. But the PLA is poised for a “Giant Leap”, and that is bound to dramatically change the ‘balance of power’ dynamics.

• G.G. Dwivedi |
• August 07, 2017 |
• IDSA Comments

Achieving the intended outcomes of the 13th five-year defence plan is critically dependent on the ability of the Ministry of Finance to increase the defence budget by at least 100 per cent from next year onward.

• Amit Cowshish |
• July 31, 2017 |
• IDSA Comments

Maximum autonomy may be accorded in ethnic, cultural and developmental realms to autonomous councils for all Naga areas in Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh and even Assam, through suitable amendment to the Sixth Schedule of the Constitution.

• Gautam Sen |
• July 31, 2017 |
• IDSA Comments

While the GCC crisis seems to be de-escalating, there is no end in sight as yet.

• K. P. Fabian |
• July 26, 2017 |
• IDSA Comments

The moot point is whether member countries are clear about the EU’s economic dysfunctions and the degree of economic unification they desire for surmounting them.

• Gautam Sen |
• July 24, 2017 |
• IDSA Comments

Israel’s Labour party has been going through turmoil since losing monopoly over power in 1977 and is unable to regain its erstwhile pre-eminence and even relevance.

• P. R. Kumaraswamy |
• July 24, 2017 |
• IDSA Comments

India should take the lead in forming an overarching security quad along with Australia, Japan and the US in the Indo-Pacific region.

• Adarsha Verma |
• July 18, 2017 |
• IDSA Comments