Spotlights
Discontinuance of National Five Year Plans – Time to Revaluate Defence...
By: Amit Cowshish | Issue: Courtesy: IDSA | Date: 16 Apr , 2016
The era of five-year plans is going to be over at the end of the current financial year, which also coincides with the last year of the 12th national five-year plan. With this, the distinction...
The Lonely Man of China
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Courtesy: http://claudearpi.blogspot.in/ | Date: 15 Apr , 2016
Xi Jinping seems more and more the lonely man of China. It is perhaps what happens when one reaches the top alone. To add to the Chinese President’s woes, the ‘Panama Papers’ named his...
Oli Visit to China and its impact on Indo-Nepal relations
By: Brig CS Thapa | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 Apr , 2016
The Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi recently visited Brussels, Saudi Arabia and America in a record 97 hours which implied he slept a lot while travelling in transit, clearly showing his...
The Dirty Bomb: Jehadi Nuclear Threat from Pakistan- A Wake Up Call
By: Brig Arun Bajpai | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Apr , 2016
The fourth nuclear security conference held at Washington under the chairmanship of American President Barrack Obama and attended by heads of 50 countries including the Indian PM Shri Narendra...
India and Maldives: A make or break visit
By: N Sathiya Moorthy | Date: 12 Apr , 2016
Following up on unprecedented high-level exchange-visits over the past months, Maldives President Abdulla Yameen is set to visit New Delhi on a two-day official visit, when he would call on his...
China unmasks its Connivance in Pakistan’s State-Sponsored Terrorism
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 11 Apr , 2016
China once again unmasks its connivance in Pakistan’s state-sponsored terrorism when last month it vetoed in the United Nations a resolution supported by all other Security Council and other...
China-Nepal ‘All-weather Friendship’ – Should India be Wary?
By: Dr Rajeev Kumar | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 10 Apr , 2016
China-Nepal-India is a very complex set of relationship often invoking concerns and raising questions whenever Nepal gets closer to either India or China by playing the so called ‘card’...
Thwarting the Threat of Nuclear Terrorism: India can lead the way
By: Lt Gen Kamal Davar (Retd) | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Monitor | Date: 09 Apr , 2016
‘Global challenges demand global solutions’ is an oft quoted truism, parroted by many global leaders, but on which there is hardly any display of concerted action. Be it the implementation of...
Is The Indian Air Force On A Flight Path Of Extinction?
By: Rakesh Krishnan Simha | Issue: Courtesy: www.swarajyamag.com | Date: 08 Apr , 2016
The IAF suffered a major setback in October 2012 when the government agreed to transfer most of its attack helicopters to the Indian Army. There will now be growing pressure on the IAF to transfer...
The Clarion Call from the Atolls: Marshall Islands Puts the Nuclear Powers...
By: A Vinod Kumar | Issue: Courtesy: IDSA | Date: 07 Apr , 2016
The story of the Republic of Marshall Islands (RMI) evokes awe as well as sympathy. This Pacific island republic has for long been at the forefront of projecting the perils that small island...
Why Pakistan Orbited Out of SAARC Satellite Project?
By: Radhakrishna Rao | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 06 Apr , 2016
In a surprising development, Pakistan has decided to opt out of the ambitious South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) satellite project, mooted by India to help the member...
China courts Myanmar: A 'strategic asset' in Beijing's Indian Ocean connectivity
By: Joshy M. Paul | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Monitor | Date: 05 Apr , 2016
China, of late, has been pitching to increase its influence in the Indian Ocean Region (IOR) through Myanmar. As an emerging maritime power in the Indo-Pacific, China is seeking a legitimate...
Moving Cyber from the Orbit to the Nucleus of the Nuclear Security Summit
By: Munish Sharma | Issue: Courtesy: IDSA | Date: 02 Apr , 2016
World leaders are gearing up to discuss pertinent issues at the final edition of the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington D.C from March 31 to April 2, 2016. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is...
Defence Procurement Procedure 2016: Rebooting Defence Production and Procurement
By: Amit Cowshish | Issue: Courtesy: IDSA | Date: 01 Apr , 2016
An incomplete version of what would be the ninth version of the Defence Procurement Procedure (DPP) was released by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) on 28 March 2016 to coincide with the opening of...
Significance of PM’s visit to Saudi Arabia
By: KN Pandita | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 Mar , 2016
After concluding Nuclear Security Summit meet in Washington (31 March – 1 April), Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be visiting the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Observers are essaying the diagnosis...
Democracy and the Military
By: Brig Deepak Sinha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 Mar , 2016
Despite the accuracy or otherwise of whatever has been alleged by Mr. Manish Tewari, former Union Minister, his personal motivations aside, the stark truth is that citizens of this country have...
Baluchistan – and the spy next door
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Mar , 2016
In September 2015 when Maleeha Lodhi, Pakistan’s permanent representative to the United Nations went public about Indian plans to build a wall along the Line of Control allegedly to convert it...
Defence Budget 2016-17: The Bigger Worry
By: Laxman K Behera | Issue: Courtesy: IDSA | Date: 26 Mar , 2016
The presentation of the Union Budget has often been an occasion for the broader strategic community to express its worries about the government’s so-called ‘apathy’ towards national...
Myanmar's Transition to Civilian Rule: A path full of Hurdles
By: Obja Borah Hazarika | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Monitor | Date: 23 Mar , 2016
The election of U Htin Kyaw as President is a watershed moment in Myanmar’s history. Htin Kyaw’s government would be Myanmar’s first democratic administration since 1962 when the military...
Reforming the United Nations: Dealing global issues in the 21st Century
By: Anant Mishra & Sandeep Ravivanshi | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Mar , 2016
United Nations – A History By the end of the Second World War, many lives were lost, millions were displaced,nationswere destroyed and the overall death and destruction scared the mankind...