Articles in Vol 24.4
Return of Jiang
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Vol 24.4 Oct-Dec 2009 | Date: 23 Nov , 2010
China has the most opaque political system in the world. The only way to guess what is going on behind the walls of Zhongnanhai (residences-cum-offices of the top Chinese leadership) is to watch...
Resurrecting Afghanistan
By: Maj Gen GD Bakshi, (Retd) | Issue: Vol 24.4 Oct-Dec 2009 | Date: 23 Nov , 2010
The Afghan nation-state was one of the oldest states of Asia. It became the first failed state in Asia. In the interests of not only regional stability but global security as such, this contagion...
Defence Procurements : learning from past mistakes
By: Maj Gen Mrinal Suman | Issue: Vol 24.4 Oct-Dec 2009 | Date: 23 Nov , 2010
“The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.” John Powell Every review of defence procurements by the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) highlights the same...
Role of China as Pakistan's nuclear and missile patron
By: Dr Monika Chansoria | Issue: Vol 24.4 Oct-Dec 2009 | Date: 15 Nov , 2010
As fighting intensifies in the Swat Valley and other tribal regions in Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province, the worsening security situation in the Af–Pak region coupled with the seeming...
Pakistan: dialogue process will end only in frustration
By: Anand K Verma | Issue: Vol 24.4 Oct-Dec 2009 | Date: 11 Nov , 2010
A continuous pressure emanates from a segment of the Indian elite for maintaining a dialogue process with Pakistan, directly or indirectly, for a solution to Indo–Pak problems. No doubt...
Myanmar going Nuclear
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Vol 24.4 Oct-Dec 2009 | Date: 20 Oct , 2010
There has been an unmistakable spurt in the development and acquisition of nuclear weapon capabilities by the Military Junta regime in Myanmar. Given the level of progress in this regard, it is...