IDR Blog
New Dimensions of Swarm Warfare
“They were coming at us like bees”. “We would kill one lot and then more would appear. It was the most amazing thing.” – Lt Col Twitty, Commander 3rd Battalion 15th Infantry, Operation Iraqi Freedom, Iraq, 2003. Swarms in nature have always intrigued humans because individually the animals or the insects do not appear to have intelligence...
Online Radicalisation: The Example of Burhan Wani
Burhan Muzaffar Wani, a Hizbul Mujahideen commander for South Kashmir, died in an encounter in Bundoora village of Kokernag on July 8, 2016, along with two other militants, Sartaj Ahmad Sheikh and Pervaiz Ahmad Lashkari. Wani’s death has generated unprecedented public hysteria, in keeping with his image as a glamourous, tech savvy, insurgent....
USA: A Country of Guns
Once again the ugly face of terrorism has been exposed before the world, with recent mass killing of 49 people in Orlando City of USA. Over the years, many incidents have come to fore where not only the terrorists, but even crazy young men often had carried out mass killings. However, incidents of mass violence make the headlines of newspapers,...
Terror Strikes Nice: Wake-up call for Western World to Deepening Fault Lines
Just as France was breathing a sigh of relief and celebrating its national holiday, Bastille Day, after an incident-free Euro 2016 football tournament, terror struck in the city of Nice. A French citizen of Tunisian descent drove a large white lorry to deliberately ram crowds at Nice’s Promenade des Anglais. Zig-zagging for almost 2 kms, the...
The Hague Ruling on the South China Sea: Has David Taken Down Goliath
The verdict of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague on July 12, 2016 in the case filed by The Philippines against China may prove to be a turning point in the long-festering multi-state maritime territorial disputes in the South China Sea. The Court has given a decisive ruling in favour of The Philippines by upholding all the...