Comment & Briefs

Sarkozy’s speech at ISRO was an interesting mix of issues relating to geostrategic significance, business, and collaboration in science and technology.

The best approach for India and the United States will be to work towards incremental improvement in the relationship and focus on those areas which have a direct impact on the people of the two countries.

Al Qaeda and the Taliban seem to be seeking to force Berlin to withdraw troops from Afghanistan by plotting terror attacks in Germany.

Wen Jiabao’s visit provides ground to bring better clarity on the Chinese stance over a range of critical issues to India, and to ask whether the sentiments expressed in 2005 were merely rhetorical.

Human resources will remain a critical element to any professional military education system and this entails careful selection of the senior leadership, faculty, and managerial staff.

Both the revelation of a highly refined capacity for uranium enrichment and the shelling of South Korean military positions amply demonstrate Pyongyang’s preparedness to push the crisis to the extremes.

A summit meeting of the NATO-Russia Council (NRC) took place in Lisbon on 19 November 2010.

Because of America’s refusal to engage North Korea, by default the reclusive nation dictates the rules of engagement in its favour.

North Korea’s intent appears to be to entice South Korea and the United States into resuming nuclear negotiations and to test their resolve.

The Deauville summit gave the leaders of France, Germany and Russia an opportunity to co-ordinate their positions on many issues.