IDR Blog
Degenerating Security Environment in Turkey
Turkey has been deeply affected by the developments especially in Syria with President Bashar al-Assad still holding on to his position, the Kurds gaining in stature because of their fight against Daesh, and the Russians aiding the Assad regime with full force. The sudden spike in terrorist attacks in Turkey, assassination of the Russian...
Six Years Post the ‘Arab Spring’: Prognosis for 2017
The net result has been that instead of the passionately hoped for new political and economic dawn, the people of Syria and Yemen are going through the darkest ever period in their modern history. West Asia has become deeply polarised due to a particularly noxious sectarian feud and a power struggle between Saudi Arabia and Iran. This is being...
India and Japan: Great Leap forward in Ties
Japan is a “distant neighbour”. Yet, Prime Minister Narendra Modi made Japan his first destination in his schedule of visits to East Asia. Even as Chief Minister of Gujarat, he had visited Japan and established personal rapport with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Abe was the first Japanese premier to be invited as chief guest at India’s...
Afghanistan cannot be abandoned to China-Pakistan-Russia Troika in 2017
Afghanistan seemed to have disappeared from the United States radar in the months to the run-up to US Presidential Elections resulting in a void which the China-Pakistan-Russia Troika has exploited to US disadvantage. Strategically the United States invested heavily in Afghanistan in terms of billions of dollars and thousands of US soldiers...
Making it Palatable – Managing Food Supply in the Armed Forces
Campaigning at Kairana for the forthcoming elections in Uttar Pradesh, the All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi is reported to have said: “PM Narendra Modi who applauds surgical strikes, serves boiled pulses and uncooked chapattis to soldiers.”1 He was referring to the post by a Border Security Force...