Mujib Killing Case Judgement The verdict will have a balming effect on all those who not only lost their families but also on those who felt betrayed by the subsequent turn of events in Bangladesh. Sreeradha Datta | November 25, 2009 | IDSA Comments
Will Indian Defence Private Sector Deliver with Recent Policy Changes? With the growth of the public sector in Defence Production a large number of industrial units in the Private Sector has also grown with varied scales of operation in areas like outsourcing of raw materials, components, sub-systems, assemblies and sub-assemblies. Narinder Gupta | November 24, 2009 | IDSA Comments
Lest We Forgot: The Battle of Rezang La While recalling the 1962 conflict we often refer to India’s ‘humiliating defeat’ at Chinese hands and forget that the Jawan of the Indian Army invariably fought with exceptional bravery and valour in the most trying conditions often without winter clothing and in some cases even without adequate ammunition. Ramesh Phadke | November 18, 2009 | IDSA Comments
Crackdown on Northeast Insurgents: Dhaka Prepares for Hasina’s India Visit New Delhi and Dhaka may have reached a tacit understanding that Northeast rebels based in Bangladesh will be simply picked up and handed over to India. Anand Kumar | November 18, 2009 | IDSA Comments
India-Australia Relations: Off Again, On Again? India-Australia relations have become an intricate set of positives and negatives, with the former outweighing the latter. Kevin Rudd made an honest attempt to redress Indian grievances but he has to walk the talk to improve bilateral ties. Rahul Mishra | November 16, 2009 | IDSA Comments
PLAAF at 60 With the inclusion of its Commander in the all powerful Central Military Commission, the PLA Air Force is well placed to play an ever more important role in China’s defence apparatus. Ramesh Phadke | November 12, 2009 | IDSA Comments
Diversion of Yarlung Tsangpo: A Probability Analysis The issue of water allocation and water rights of Bangladesh, India and China could form the basis of a framework on which joint cooperation among the three countries can be formulated. Medha Bisht | November 11, 2009 | IDSA Comments
Acquisition Reform – Lessons from Bernard Gray If India does not modernize in an evenly spread out manner, it will be faced either with the prospect of its armed forces not being prepared, or rushing to make purchases amidst crises, or creating needless hysteria when frenzied modernization occurs. Raj Shukla | November 10, 2009 | IDSA Comments
Indian Defence Industry Poised to Grow Even as the new amendments incentivise domestic companies to enter defence production, the government has made it clear that it wants a competitive environment in defence industry. Laxman Kumar Behera | November 10, 2009 | IDSA Comments
Community Building in the Asia-Pacific: Ideas, Concepts and the United States Notwithstanding the community formation ideas in different shapes coming from Japan and Australia, the EAS came out with as many as 42 deals on issues ranging from outstanding trade and economic matters to the launch of a human rights commission. Rajaram Panda | November 06, 2009 | IDSA Comments
