Associate Fellow, IDSA, Dr Anand Kumar’s article on the effect of Chinese investment in Bangladesh on Delhi-Dhaka relations, titled ‘Chinese moves in South Asia: Will Xi's Dhaka visit change dynamics of India-Bangladesh ties?’ was published in South Asia Monitor on November 11, 2016.

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Distinguished Fellow, IDSA, Brig Gurmeet Kanwal’s article on US President elect, Donald Trump, titled ‘Can Donald Trump launch a nuclear attack?’ was published in ‘Daily O’ on November 9, 2016.

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Research Fellow, IDSA, Col Vivek Chadha’s commentary on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent currency revamp, titled ‘What scrapping Rs 500/1,000 notes means for countering terrorism’, was published in ‘Daily O’ on November 9, 2016.

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Distinguished Fellow, IDSA, Brig Gurmeet Kanwal’s article on comprehensive national power (CNP),  titled ‘Demographic dividend should not turn into a disaster’ was published in Deccan Herald on November 1, 2016.

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The world order seems to be on the cusp of a major transformation. A potential power realignment seems to slowly shaping up with a hitherto unlikely combination (at least partly) of Russia, China and Pakistan, seeking to challenge the great power status quo, or pushing for greater bipolarity in global affairs.

New Delhi will respond by executing its doctrine of massive retaliation and Islamabad will cease to exist as a functional nation state.

'The government has sent a clear message to Pakistan: It is no longer business as usual.'
'The rules of the game have changed and a new game is at play,' says Brigadier Gurmeet Kanwal (retd).

Like panthers prowling in the dead of night, several teams of the Special Forces of the Indian army crossed the Line of Control (LoC) on the night of 28 September. They struck with deadly effect and, as quietly as they had come in, they exfiltrated back across the LoC.

In his briefing after the attack in Uri on 18 September, the DGMO had said that the army “reserves the right to respond” to the terrorist strike at Uri at a time and place of its choosing. It took ten days to plan the operation, which was based on accurate intelligence.

It is a widely held belief that the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) was highly relevant for India and its foreign policy interests during the bipolar era of the Cold War and that it has, since the 1990s, lost this relevance in a unipolar international order.

Associate Fellow, IDSA, Dr Anand Kumar’s article on recent developments in India-Pakistan relations, titled ‘India-Pak ties: We need to act more, talk less’ was published in The Tribune on September 29, 2016.