Spotlights
Boko Haram: Beginning of a New Crusade
By: Anant Mishra | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Jan , 2015
Boko Haram is an Islamists militant group located in the Northern region of Nigeria. The name “Boko Haram” in regional Nigerian dialect means “Western Education is forbidden” which...
Threat Perception of India
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Book Excerpt: Asian Strategy and Military Perspective | Date: 26 Dec , 2014
Very few countries in the world are beset with as many hostile or uncomfortable neighbours as India. With its two neighbours China and Pakistan, it has a post-independence history of wars and the...
The Rise and fall of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks
By: Anant Mishra | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Dec , 2014
The late Palestinian president Yasser Arafat famously said “Palestine is the cement that holds the Arab world together, or it is the explosive that blows it apart”. This quote illustrates the...
The CIA and China
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Courtesy: http://claudearpi.blogspot.in/ | Date: 12 Dec , 2014
The much-awaited report (summary) from Senate Intelligence Committee on the CIA’s Detention and Interrogation Program is finally in the public domain. Its conclusion are clear, the Intelligence...
The Legacy of Peshawar
By: Dr Amarjit Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Dec , 2014
If the United States had been sincere and provided aid to the Afghan Mujahidin after the Russians were ousted from Afghanistan, Afghanistan might have not gotten into its current situation. ...
Crimea – The War That Didn’t Boil
By: Anant Mishra | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Dec , 2014
The Crimean crisis was an international crisis in 2014 principally involving Russia and Ukraine over the control of the Crimean Peninsula, until its annexation by Russia. Crimea is populated by...
Pakistan will never dismantle its Jehad Machine
By: Brig Arun Bajpai | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Dec , 2014
America’s decade old war on terror is finally drawing down in Afghanistan in next seven months. Even though Americans are going back on their own vocation in an orderly manner, most of the...
Kurdish problem can redraw the map of Middle East
By: Anant Mishra | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 Dec , 2014
The 30 million or so Kurds are large ethnic minorities in Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran, but have no sovereign state of their own. This status quo is a continuing source of instability in the...
Kashmir Under Spotlight and Our Response
By: Danvir Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Dec , 2014
Kashmir has come under focus for all the reasons that should worry India. The LOC has recently become active, as there have been a large number of cease fire violations and hostile actions by our...
Nehru’s Pacifism had nearly cost us Tawang
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Nov , 2014
It is entirely due to Major Bob Khathing’s courage and swift action, backed by the Assam Governor, that Tawang is part of India. Had Jawaharlal Nehru had his way, it would have been Chinese...
ASEAN’s Answer to the Coup d’état in Thailand
By: Anant Mishra | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Nov , 2014
The Thai national security situation has been shaky at best in the aftermath of a series of political problems in the last couple of years. A sustained period of political turmoil has...
Lessons from Sri Lanka's War
By: VK Shashikumar | Issue: Vol 24.3 Jul-Sep 2009 | Date: 19 Nov , 2014
Terrorism has to be wiped out militarily and cannot be tackled politically. That’s the basic premise of the Rajapakse Model. Conduct of Operations This is how the Sri Lankan government...
Bangladesh Military's Political Retreat: Sheikh Hasina's War on Yunus & the US
By: B.Z. Khasru | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Nov , 2014
When seemingly unending political street-battles gripped Bangladesh in late 2006, the United Nations pushed the country’s military in a circuitous way to take over the administration, brazenly...
The Issue of Religious Extremism
By: Anant Mishra | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 Nov , 2014
Religion is an organized collection of beliefs, cultural systems and worldviews that relate mankind to the supernatural and spirituality. Most religions have numerous signs and symbols as well as...
Way to a Credible Deterrent
By: Arun S Vishwakarma | Issue: Vol 24.1 Jan-Mar 2009 | Date: 08 Nov , 2014
Ten years after the Pokhran (POK-2) series of tests in May 1998, it is useful to examine the progress on the diplomatic front and see what is needed further. The recently concluded India-US...
Reforming the United Nations Security Council
By: Anant Mishra | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Nov , 2014
In an era where there is increasing inter dependence amongst nations, where a narcissistic approach is a thing of the past, where good diplomacy and smart foreign policies are a way to subdue your...
Sardar Patel's Letter to Jawaharlal Nehru on Tibet
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Book Excerpt: The Unmaking of Nepal | Date: 31 Oct , 2014
My dear Jawaharlal, Ever since my return from Ahmedabad and after the Cabinet meeting the same day which I had to attend at practically fifteen minutes’ notice and for which I regret I was not...
Role of Intelligence Agencies in Modern Warfare
By: Anant Mishra | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 Oct , 2014
Gathering intelligence and information by means of espionage has been a key element to the survival of nations ever since their existence. However, there has been a major change in the way...
India's Multifunction Missile for Credible Deterrent
By: Arun S Vishwakarma | Issue: Vol 24.1 Jan-Mar 2009 | Date: 22 Oct , 2014
Shourya and Sagarika is a new common missile that can be launched from multiple platforms, i.e. ground, submarine and mobile launcher. The naval version is called Sagarika, while the land based...
Threat or Use of Force with Special Focus on Interventions and Invasions
By: Anant Mishra | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Oct , 2014
The international law realm has for some time struggled with two distinct and contrary legal principles: state sovereignty, and humanitarian justice. It had been almost a truism of international...