IDSA Comments

Osama’s Killing: Regional Implications

2025 ,

What are the implications of Osama bin Laden’s elimination in a US-led operation in Abbottabad, Pakistan? How will US-Pakistan relations evolve since Pakistan’s duplicity with respect to the war on...

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TAPI – Still a Distant Dream

2025 ,

While India’s participation in the Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) gas pipeline project has all but been written off, the focus is now on the negotiations on the alternate Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) project, which...

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India’s Limited Options in Afghanistan

2025 ,

The US Special Representative on Afghanistan-Pakistan, Marc Grossman, is currently in Delhi for briefings and discussions with his Indian counterparts on the present situation in Afghanistan. Undoubtedly, the future of...

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ISRO’s Successful PSLV-C16 Flight

2025 ,

The “feel good” factor has returned to the Indian Space Research Organisation. On April 20, 2011 ISRO’s PSLV—C16 rocket successfully launched into orbit Resourcesat 2 - the latest remote sensing...

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Making Sense of ‘Nasr’

2025 ,

News reports have it that Pakistan has successfully conducted a test of a surface-to-surface short range Hatf IX (Nasr), described as a multi-tube ballistic missile with a ‘shoot and scoot’...

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China’s Aircraft Carrier: Some Observations

2025 ,

If international relations are driven by perceptions of relative strengths and weaknesses, then power projection matters the most. Power, as understood in modern statecraft, is contingent on a country’s willingness...

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India-Pakistan Game-Theoretic Interplay

2025 ,

India and Pakistan have once again embarked upon the path of dialogue. But will the process last? In this context, game theory—the mathematical study of strategies and decision-making—may offer some...

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