Articles in Vol 20.4

Strategic relevance of Gilgit and Baltistan

Strategic relevance of Gilgit and Baltistan

By: Vikram Sood | Issue: Vol 20.4 Oct-Dec 2005 | Date: 27 Sep , 2015

Gilgit and Baltistan are parts of India, as much as the rest of the J & K state is, but this region does not seem to figure too prominently on our collective radar screen. Instead, we seem to...

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Lateral Induction of the Military into Civil Administration

Lateral Induction of the Military into Civil Administration

By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Vol 20.4 Oct-Dec 2005 | Date: 21 Sep , 2012

The map of Asia is dotted with small and medium sized Islamic countries that overtly or covertly tend to lean towards religious extremism in a variety of disguises. Many plant ridiculous ideas...

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The Chinese Way

The Chinese Way

By: Prof. Priyadarshi Mukherji | Issue: Vol 20.4 Oct-Dec 2005 | Date: 09 Aug , 2012

Just ten days before the founding of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), on 21 September 1949, in his opening address at the First Plenary Session of the Chinese People’s Political...

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Modernisation of the Indian Navy - 2020

Modernisation of the Indian Navy - 2020

By: Admiral Madhvendra Singh | Issue: Vol 20.4 Oct-Dec 2005 | Date: 08 Aug , 2012

“Modernisation” of a Navy is a continuous process  – and each major upgradation takes time and needs to be planned well in advance. The “Great White Fleet” which circum-navigated the...

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The Final Frontier

The Final Frontier

By: Gp Capt AS Bahal | Issue: Vol 20.4 Oct-Dec 2005 | Date: 27 Oct , 2011

 “Space is the final frontier that India must conquest, if it has to rightfully emerge as a leading economic and military powerhouse.” The chinese were the first to develop a rocket in...

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India's Strategic Engagement of the East

India's Strategic Engagement of the East

By: SD Muni | Issue: Vol 20.4 Oct-Dec 2005 | Date: 14 Sep , 2011

India’s ‘Look-East Policy’, initiated during the early 1990s as a part of India’s attempts to cope with the post-Cold War shifts in world and Asian politics, has picked up the threads,...

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Indian Army: 2020

Indian Army: 2020

By: Gen. S Padmanabhan | Issue: Vol 20.4 Oct-Dec 2005 | Date: 06 Jun , 2011

National security, is that ambience, in which a nation is able to protect and promote its national values, pursue its national interests and aspirations, in spite of, or, in the absence of,...

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Securing Maritime Lifelines

Securing Maritime Lifelines

By: Cdr Gurpreet S Khurana | Issue: Vol 20.4 Oct-Dec 2005 | Date: 26 Nov , 2010

Characterised by globalisation, the present times bear a new flavour for international relations. The economic liberalization undertaken by states has led to a frenzy of commercial interactions...

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