A. Vinod Kumar

Kerala’s Emergence as a Terror Hub: Repeated Warnings Ignored

In August 2006, IDSA published a web commentary titled “Is Kerala emerging as India’s new terror hub?” The events of the past few months, especially the shocking revelation of militants...

A. Vinod Kumar |
November 11, 2008 |
IDSA Comments

India’s Role in Global Anti-Proliferation: Challenges and Opportunities

Being a non-NPT state with advanced nuclear capability, India's contributions to the non-proliferation movement have often been scrutinized. India was for long treated as part of the 'proliferation problem'. Since...

A. Vinod Kumar |
September 2008 |
Strategic Analysis

The Proliferation Security Initiative: Five years later, losing its sheen?

On May 27, 2008, participants from 91 countries assembled in Washington to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) – a controversial counterproliferation initiative launched by President...

A. Vinod Kumar |
July 07, 2008 |
IDSA Comments

A Phased Approach to India’s Missile Defense Planning

India's missile defence explorations had long been hindered by its limited access to advanced interception technologies and slow pace of indigenization. India is now developing lower- and upper-tier systems for...

Satellite Interception: US BMD Survives the Acid Test

Rarely would a defence R&D agency get an actual operational scenario to test the capability of a military system before attaining total technological maturity. The much-maligned U.S. Missile Defence Agency...

A. Vinod Kumar |
February 26, 2008 |
IDSA Comments

India-Japan Relations: Are There Prospects for Civil Nuclear Cooperation?

BMD’s Slow Progress Towards Technological Maturity

"We fired an operationally configured interceptor out of a silo at Vandenberg Air Force base, and it flew out, and was successful in intercepting the target." - Lt. Gen. Henry...

A. Vinod Kumar |
October 12, 2007 |
IDSA Comments

Time to Cross the Adam’s Bridge Again

A recent survey by a Colombo-based agency on the peace process revealed that a majority of Sri Lankans prefers India as a peace facilitator rather than the Norwegians. According to...

A. Vinod Kumar |
January 18, 2007 |
IDSA Comments

Counterproliferation: India’s New Imperatives and Options

Despite its excellent record in the field of non-proliferation of technologies, know-how and equipment related to weapons of mass destruction (WMD) to other states, India has been essentially a passive...

Airborne Laser Aircraft Rolls Out

"Not since that time nearly 2000 years ago, when Archimedes reflected the sun's rays to set the Roman fleet on fire, has the world seen a weapon that puts fresh...