One Year of Pashtun Tahafuz Movement Although the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement has been able to mainstream the Pashtun issue and has inspired popular empathy, its anti-establishment thrust has made it a soft target for the pro-establishment media and political actors. Zainab Akhter January 28, 2019 IDSA Comments
India’s National Security: Annual Review 2018 National security refers to securing a nation’s citizens, territory, resources, assets, ideologies, institutions, and interests against threats which may emanate from changing geopolitical state of affairs, changing relations between nations, groups, races, sects, advancing technology and changing ideology. In the prevailing complex geopolitical scenario, India’s national security is facing new challenges and acquiring new dimensions with every passing year. Atul Pant January-March 2019 Journal of Defence Studies
India’s Domestic Debate over China’s Growing Strategic Presence in the Indian Ocean This article seeks to capture the domestic debate in India over China’s activities in the Indian Ocean. It engages the critical geopolitical articulation around formal, practical and popular geopolitics, and provides a narrow perspective on the Indian Ocean Region (IOR). It begins with a look at how India and China perceive the IOR, which is crucial to understand how the Indian Ocean is framed in the public consciousness in India. Rajdeep Pakanati January-March 2019 Journal of Defence Studies
Debating Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems Technology and the armed forces have a symbiotic relationship. Many technologies which are presently used in day-to-day life, like the Internet or navigation systems (global positioning system [GPS]), actually have a link to, or are derived from, military innovations. Artificial intelligence (AI) is one arena of present generation technology that militaries have been developing mainly for two purposes: first, for juxtaposing it on their existing defence architecture for its performance enhancement; and second, for developing new types of militarily instruments and weapon systems. Ajey Lele January-March 2019 Journal of Defence Studies
Time to Bolster Global Biological and Chemical Defense Capabilities The 1972 Biological Weapons Convention (BWC)1 and 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention2 (CWC) serve as the norms against the use of biological and chemical weapons, respectively. However, recent biological and chemical… Continue reading Time to Bolster Global Biological and Chemical Defense Capabilities Daniel M Gerstein January-June 2019 CBW Magazine
Agro-Warfare: Attack on Crops and Livestock The outbreak of two dreadful world wars led to the emergence of the need to develop better and sophisticated weapon systems to defeat the enemy. On both sides of the… Continue reading Agro-Warfare: Attack on Crops and Livestock Tanvi Kaur January-June 2019 CBW Magazine
Japan’s Strategic Calculations: Constraints and Responses As the East Asian regional order becomes fragmented, how is Prime Minister Shinzo Abe managing Tokyo’s strategic interests within the US-Japan-China relations? Titli Basu January 17, 2019 Issue Brief
United States Bio-surveillance Project in South Korea: A conflict between Traditional and Non-Traditional Security The Twenty-first century security environment is highly uncertain. The changing security paradigm has deepened and broadened the concept to a large extent. On the one hand, the traditional notion of… Continue reading United States Bio-surveillance Project in South Korea: A conflict between Traditional and Non-Traditional Security Vasudevan Mani Tripathi January-June 2019 CBW Magazine
The Strategy Trap: India and Pakistan Under the Nuclear Shadow Ever since India and Pakistan emerged as declared nuclear weapon states in 1998, national security ideation in both countries has factored in the nuclear dimension in significantly different ways. While Pakistan views its nuclear arsenal as an offensive weapon against what it perceives to be an existential threat from India and a conduit to wage a proxy war in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K), India has a nuanced perspective of nuclear weapons as primarily a credible deterrent and not a weapon of war fighting. Arjun Subramaniam January-March 2019 Journal of Defence Studies
The New Saudi Initiative of ‘Arab and African Coastal States of the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden’ Facing huge political and security challenges in the Arabian Peninsula, Saudi Arabia now looks westward to the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden coast for a new regional security arrangement. Prasanta Kumar Pradhan January 15, 2019 IDSA Comments
