Spotlights
Is Indian Intelligence being made the whipping boy?
By: Anand K Verma | Issue: Vol 24.2 Apr-Jun 2009 | Date: 29 Jun , 2012
Indian intelligence is frequently in the news, often for the wrong reasons. It is a favourite kicking target for a large number of those who compulsively articulate, like the media, political...
Stabilising Afghanistan
By: Y.K. Gera | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 22 Jun , 2012
Afghanistan connects south Asia, central Asia and west Asia, or the Middle East as the Western powers call it. Afghanistan has land borders with Pakistan (south Asia), Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan,...
An Inept Job in Kashmir
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Courtesy: Uday India | Date: 19 Jun , 2012
The much-awaited report of the Kashmir-interlocutors, appointed by the Union Home Ministry, is now out in the public domain. 176-page long, it has evoked mixed reactions. The interlocutors have...
The Security Environment in and around India
By: Maj Gen Afsir Karim | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 18 Jun , 2012
The gradual erosion of the political authority is evident in many parts of India, mainly due to poor governance and polarisation in society. There is unrest in society due to caste and religious...
Nuclear and Missile Threat from China
By: Maj Gen Sheru Thapliyal, PhD | Issue: Vol 23.3 Jul-Sep 2008 | Date: 14 Jun , 2012
Founded in 1966, the PLA’s dedicated missile force was named the Second Artillery Corps by former Premier Zhou En Lai. It has been an independent branch of the PLA since 1974 and controls the...
India & SCO: Need for Caution
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Jun , 2012
India, like Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan, is presently an observer of the Shanghai Co-operation Organisation (SCO), which has completed 10 years. Like Pakistan and Iran, it has sought full...
Counter and Neutralise ISI
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Jun , 2012
The Lashkar-e-Toiba (LET), which had refrained from any major terrorist attack in India, including Jammu & Kashmir, after the 26/11 terrorist strikes in Mumbai, has been let loose again by the...
TAPI Pipeline: Moving away from Iran
By: Vikram Sood | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Jun , 2012
The Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) pipeline agreement signed on May 23 is a follow-up to the December 2010 agreement but essentially a rerun of the aborted 1990s game with a few...
Ansari’s Arrest: Answers that India needs
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 May , 2012
Ansari is presently under interrogation by the Indian authorities. It is likely that the interrogation is being carried out by a joint team headed by the Multi-Agency Centre (MAC) of the...
Al Qaeda after the death of Laden
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Apr , 2012
There is an air of nervousness all over the world where there is a strong US presence regarding the dangers of Al Qaeda-inspired attacks on US nationals and interests coinciding with the first...
PM's Conference on Internal Security - Q&A
By: Col R Hariharan | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Apr , 2012
Prime Minister has said Left Wing extremism remains a major challenge to the internal security of the country? What are your views? The Prime Minister had highlighted Left Wing extremism (LWE) as...
Addressing Hafiz Saeed
By: Rajinder Puri | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Apr , 2012
The obsession with Hafiz Saeed displayed by politicians and media during President Zardari’s recent visit was amusing. Hafiz Saeed is not the issue. He is the symptom of the issue. That issue...
Coastal Security Paradox
By: Rear Adm AP Revi | Issue: Vol. 27.1 -Mar 2012 | Date: 19 Apr , 2012
A constabulary role and coordination between the civil agencies lie wholly outside the scope and capability of the Indian Navy. The IN should not even consider venturing into those domains as it...
One India & One China
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Apr , 2012
The strong economic relations between India and China and their co-operation in multilateral for a such as the recent Copenhagen summit on climate change should not blind one to the fact that the...
Iran's NBC and Missile Programme
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Book Excerpt: Asian Strategy and Military Perspective | Date: 09 Apr , 2012
Iran embarked on a comprehensive missile programme during the Iran-Iraq War. During the post war period, it has made a determined bid to enhance its missile arsenal and capabilities by reaching...
Subterranean threats to India-Sri Lanka relations
By: Col R Hariharan | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Apr , 2012
According to a news item in the Colombo daily “The Island,” Sri Lanka intelligence services have received information that around 150 terrorists who returned to Sri Lanka from India were now...
Third Naval Base at Karwar
By: Vice Adm (Retd) GM Hiranandani | Issue: Book Excerpt: Transition to Guardianship: The Indian Navy 1991-2000 | Date: 26 Mar , 2012
During the 1970s, the conceptual requirement for a ‘Third Naval Base’ on the West Coast, in addition to Bombay and Cochin, crystallised. The requirements were: Large waterfront with...
Strategic Significance of Maldives
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Mar , 2012
Strategically significant and geopolitically sensitive, Maldives, a chain of 1192 islands 199 of which are inhabited and home to 3,15,000 people, has recently been brutalized by violence and coup,...
Taking Nuclear War-Fighting Seriously
By: Ali Ahmed | Issue: Vol. 27.1 -Mar 2012 | Date: 19 Mar , 2012
What are the implications of a nuclear battlefield? Since the early eighties, this question has been posed since Sundarji’s postal seminar on nuclear conflict while he was in command of the...
India's Role in Afghanistann - I
By: Bhashyam Kasturi | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 17 Feb , 2012
Any study that seeks to understand the dynamics of Indias “presence” in Afghanistan with the application of soft power must realise that it is a carefully crafted piece of...