Taliban and Weapons of Mass Disruption Threat In Late 2009, the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), the radical umbrella terror group operating Pakistan, had threatened to unleash a chemical warfare against Pakistan and planned to use the age old… Continue reading Taliban and Weapons of Mass Disruption Threat Animesh Roul | January-March 2010 | CBW Magazine
Japan mulls granting right to franchise to permanent foreign residents To gain the trust of Seoul and Beijing, the DPJ government plans to present a bill in the Diet for granting the right of franchise to foreign nationals registered as permanent residents, a majority of whom are South Korean and Chinese. Shamshad A. Khan | January 21, 2010 | IDSA Comments
Balochistan is no Bangladesh Unless Baloch nationalists get their act together in pursuit of ‘achievable nationhood’, it will be only a matter of time before this latest upsurge in Balochistan will be brutally crushed. Sushant Sareen | January 19, 2010 | IDSA Comments
Sino-Bhutan Boundary Negotiations: Complexities of the ‘Package Deal’ Bhutan and China have decided on a joint field survey to enable harmonising the reference points and names of the disputed areas. Medha Bisht | January 19, 2010 | IDSA Comments
The Cautious Handling of Secularism in Bangladesh The landslide victory of Awami League in Bangladesh elections created hope of revival of the 1972 constitution of which secularism was an important element. The government of Shaikh Hasina is trying to deal with this issue in a cautious manner. Anand Kumar | January 19, 2010 | IDSA Comments
Address at the National Seminar on Defence Acquisition Acquisition efficiencies represent the most vital element in India's quest for optimal defence capability build up in the desired time and cost horizons. The focused attention bestowed by MOD and Services Headquarters in recent years on this critical theme is a clear assertion of the country's resolve to acquire full spectrum military strength over the next 15-20 years. V. K. Misra | January 2010 | Journal of Defence Studies
Paper Evaluation of Technical Offers ……if Paper Evaluation were achieving its aim of ensuring that only those equipments that meet the technical parameters were invited for field evaluation and if that conclusion was to be true then such equipments should by and large clear field evaluation. However, experience does not suggest that. ……. modify …… existing procedure of Paper Evaluation to achieve the desired results much faster in the context of our acquisition philosophy of SUNDER – SASTA – AUR TIKAU alluded to earlier. I. S. Chaturvedi | January 2010 | Journal of Defence Studies
Firming Up the “Buy”, “Buy & Make” and “Make” Decision and Relevance of the Pre-Feasibility Study The Government has professed it's inclination to promote indigenous production of defence products over and over again but unfortunately something seems to be holding the ministry back in taking on the issue wholeheartedly. In order to go full steam on the bandwagon of indigenization……..Scrap the present elaborate categorisation process completely and replace it by a simpler process…. Alok Perti | January 2010 | Journal of Defence Studies
United States of America: Chemical Weapons Profile Chemical weapons make premeditated use of the toxic properties of chemical substances to inflict death or harm to human beings and are known as weapons of mass destruction along with… Continue reading United States of America: Chemical Weapons Profile Sanjeev Kumar Shrivastav | January-March 2010 | CBW Magazine
