An Assessment of Insurgencies in Assam, Manipur and Nagaland in 2009 The North East of India has been plagued by insurgencies since independence in 1947. Most violent amongst the armed movements had been the Naga National Council in the 1950s and today the NSCN (IM). Namrata Goswami April 05, 2010 Issue Brief
Getting Ready for a Hot Summer The defence minister is indeed correct that ‘sacrifices’ would have to be made but this time India should offer that privilege to the Pakistani Army. Ramesh Phadke April 05, 2010 IDSA Comments
Google China ‘Warfare’: Turning a non issue to win-win strategy If freedom of expression was the issue then other American internet service companies like Microsoft and Yahoo! should have also exited China along with Google. Gunjan Singh , Avinash Godbole April 05, 2010 IDSA Comments
Earth Hour 2010 and India India has to not only fight over-consumption of resources in metropolitan cities but also make sure that the resources saved percolate down to its rural areas. Sarita Azad April 05, 2010 IDSA Comments
Af-Pak and India’s Strategic Innocence Afghanistan was a test case for our foreign policy resolve, an arena where while leveraging other tools of foreign policy, use of instruments of force and military diplomacy/intelligence should have been predominant. Raj Shukla April 02, 2010 IDSA Comments
Locating Singapore in India’s Strategic Radar India needs to engage Singapore more robustly so as to enable the forging of deeper and more broad-based friendships in the Southeast Asian region through Singapore’s good offices. Rahul Mishra April 01, 2010 IDSA Comments
Building Road Infrastructure along the Line of Actual Control: Hurdles and Constraints Though the target date for completing the 73 envisaged roads is 2012, only nine have so far been completed. Narinder Gupta April 01, 2010 IDSA Comments
Reprioritising Defence Acquisitions The Indian armed forces appear to be driving defence budgets rather than a cold calculation of the country’s desire for ‘adequate’ military capability. Ramesh Phadke March 30, 2010 IDSA Comments
Vicious anti-India propaganda in Pakistan on Water issues Though the Indus Water Treaty apportions 80 per cent of the waters of the Indus River Basin to Pakistan and only 20 per cent to India, Pakistan is engaged in baseless allegations to inflame public opinion and project India as its number one threat. Arvind Gupta March 29, 2010 IDSA Comments
Political Dimensions of Limited War While limitation in aims set is acknowledged as the primary way of conflict limitation, the point lost sight of usually on the politico-military facet is war termination. Ali Ahmed March 29, 2010 IDSA Comments
