The Army that can Deliver

Bangladesh's Chief of Staff General Mooen U Ahmed's visit to India scheduled in the fourth week of August now stands postponed in wake of the severe floods sweeping across the...

• Sreeradha Datta |
• August 08, 2007 |
• IDSA Comments

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Indian Defence Acquisition: Time for Change

The latest Comptroller and Auditor General (C&AG) Performance Report on Defence Services (No. 4 of 2007) has once again exposed the problems involved in Indian defence acquisition. The report has...

• Laxman Kumar Behera |
• August 03, 2007 |
• IDSA Comments

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The Imperative of Finalising the Nuclear Deal by 2008

Even though the Indo-US nuclear deal has passed one more hurdle with the completion of the 123 Agreement to the satisfaction of both governments, the remaining hurdles include the signing...

• Cherian Samuel |
• August 03, 2007 |
• IDSA Comments

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The Emerging Islamic Militancy in North-East India

The emergence of several Islamic militant groups in North-East India and their ability to forge close ties with the region's most violent militant groups like the United Liberation Front of...

• M. Amarjeet Singh |
• August 03, 2007 |
• IDSA Comments

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Tackling the Challenge Posed by Amateur Terrorists

After a month of global media frenzy, alliterative headlines, statements by senior politicians across continents, charges and rebuttals, the terrorist attempts in London and Glasgow appear to be finally gaining...

• Alok Rashmi Mukhopadhyay |
• August 01, 2007 |
• IDSA Comments

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India-Bangladesh Relations after the Foreign Secretary Level Talks

The recently concluded Foreign Secretary level talks in Dhaka between India and Bangladesh saw agreement on three broad issues. The first of these related to sharing of intelligence pertaining to...

• Smruti S. Pattanaik |
• July 17, 2007 |
• IDSA Comments

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India and the Container Security Initiative

While the amorphous threat of terrorism can be extrapolated on the basis of what happened on 9/11, this constitutes only the 'visible horizon' of the extent of the terrorists' innovation....

• Gurpreet S Khurana |
• July 17, 2007 |
• IDSA Comments

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India and the US-India Agreement for Civil Nuclear Cooperation

Although it is nearly two years since the July 18, 2005 Joint Statement between President George Bush and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh announced their intention to facilitate civil nuclear commerce...

• G. Balachandran |
• July 03, 2007 |
• IDSA Comments

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Change the Pattern of Aid to Afghanistan

Nearly six years after the toppling of the Taliban regime and the completion of the Bonn Process, the situation in Afghanistan continues to remain fragile. A recent visit to provinces...

• Shanthie Mariet D'Souza |
• June 28, 2007 |
• IDSA Comments

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Gaza on the Boil

The factional fighting between the Islamist Hamas, represented by the recently dismissed Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh in the Gaza Strip, and the 'moderate' Fatah, headed by the President of...

• S. Samuel C. Rajiv |
• June 21, 2007 |
• IDSA Comments

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The Caspian Pipeline Deal and Russia’s Energy Strategy in Central Asia

Vladimir Putin’s week-long visit to Central Asia in the second week of May 2007 was aimed at courting Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan as part of Russia’s future energy strategy in the...

• Meena Singh Roy |
• June 11, 2007 |
• IDSA Comments

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Surge in Infiltration Attempts Across the Line of Control in J&K

A surge in infiltration attempts by heavily armed terrorists across the Line of Control (LoC) in J&K has been reported in the last two months. With the snow receding on...

• B. S. Sachar |
• June 07, 2007 |
• IDSA Comments

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Ethanol and India’s Energy Security

With 14.1 per cent growth (2007) in the manufacturing sector, 14 per cent (2006) in the service sector, and an agriculture sector that is beginning to finally look up, the...

• Priyadarshini Singh |
• June 07, 2007 |
• IDSA Comments

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Civil Aviation: A Forgotten Facet of Air Power

Indian aviation has been witnessing spectacular growth in the past five years. Private low-cost airlines have proliferated and the average middle class Indian today aspires to fly rather than use...

• Ramesh Phadke |
• May 18, 2007 |
• IDSA Comments

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Galileo in Crisis

In October 2006, when India decided to pull out of the ambitious Galileo project, a global navigation system jointly developed by the European Commission (EC) and the European Space Agency...

• Alok Rashmi Mukhopadhyay |
• May 16, 2007 |
• IDSA Comments

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China’s Anti-Terror Raid in Xinjiang

On April 19, 2007, the provincial Chinese court in Xinjiang sentenced Huseyin Celil, a Uyghur, to life imprisonment for taking part in "terrorist activities" and "plotting to split the country"....

• Jagannath P. Panda |
• May 11, 2007 |
• IDSA Comments

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The LeT Menace in Delhi

The arrest of three Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorists on April 26, 2007 from Dilli Haat in New Delhi has once again exposed the challenge of terrorism confronting the capital. Attempts to...

• T. Khurshchev Singh |
• May 11, 2007 |
• IDSA Comments

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FMCT Negotiations: The Next Gathering Nuclear Storm?

The Presidential Draft Decision at the Conference on Disarmament (CD) decided on March 23, 2007 to appoint a co-ordinator each to preside over the discussions on three core issues on...

• Rajesh Kumar Mishra |
• May 07, 2007 |
• IDSA Comments

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India should beware of US motives on nuclear deal

From all accounts it appears that the much talked about India-US nuclear deal is slowly but surely unravelling. This should not come as a surprise. Right from the beginning when...

• Ramesh Phadke |
• May 03, 2007 |
• IDSA Comments

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Wen Jiabao’s Ice-Melting Visit to Japan

Wen Jiabao's three-day visit to Japan starting on April 11, 2007 was the first visit by a Chinese Premier in seven years. It has been hailed as an 'ice-melting' visit,...

• Abanti Bhattacharya |
• April 25, 2007 |
• IDSA Comments

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