IDSA Comments - MP-IDSA

India and China – Time for a dialogue on nuclear security?

It may be time for India and China to discuss nuclear issues bilaterally with a view to mediating the uncertainties borne of their differing perspectives and postures.

Rukmani Gupta |
April 19, 2018 |
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Creation of Defence Planning Committee: A Step towards Credible Defence Preparedness

With the powerful DPC in place and the NSA assuming the role of de facto CDS for all practical purposes other than in operational matters, the defence planning process is...

Laxman Kumar Behera |
April 19, 2018 |
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Raksha Mantri to Pursue India’s Defence Cooperation Agenda in SCO

India should institute regular strategic and security dialogue and conferences to discuss issues of common interests and identify priority actions for stronger cooperation with SCO countries.

P. Stobdan |
April 16, 2018 |
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Defence Budget: Beyond the Numbers

Objectives and resources have to be in sync with each other and if adequate resources cannot be provided objectives have to be suitably recalibrated and alternative ways found to achieve...

Amit Cowshish |
April 16, 2018 |
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Oli’s India visit: Resetting bilateral relations for mutual benefit

The purposes of the visit have been achieved and a new phase of relationship has begun with India acknowledging Nepal as an ‘equal partner’.

Nihar R. Nayak |
April 11, 2018 |
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Will North Korea Denuclearise?

Kim will drive the hardest bargain possible and be willing to make only small concessions like maintaining some type of a freeze on future tests of missiles and nuclear weapons.

Ashok Sajjanhar |
April 09, 2018 |
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Crippling the Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force

The Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force officer corps has a challenging task at hand to preserve the operational capability of the force as well as address the genuine concerns being...

Sanjay Badri-Maharaj |
April 09, 2018 |
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DefExpo 2018: Making India a Defence Manufacturing Hub and an Exporter of Arms

The challenge lies in demonstrating to potential importers that India, currently the world’s largest arms importer, has the capacity to manufacture and export the equipment required by their armed forces.

Amit Cowshish |
April 09, 2018 |
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Draft Defence Production Policy 2018: Challenges Galore

The Draft Defence Production Policy 2018, which aims to promote the Make in India initiative in the defence sector and create a world-class arms manufacturing base, faces a number of...

Laxman Kumar Behera |
April 04, 2018 |
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Promises Galore in the Draft Defence Production Policy 2018

The promises contained in the recently released draft are so intertwined that a comprehensive action plan would be required to implement all of them almost simultaneously for achieving the policy...

Amit Cowshish |
April 02, 2018 |
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Influencing Electoral Outcomes: The Ugly Face of Facebook

The Cambridge Analytica episode highlights the need to expedite the process of developing a data protection framework and probably amend the IT Act in accordance with the changing realities of...

Munish Sharma |
March 26, 2018 |
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Why wait for the elusive tipping point in cyber?

The UNGGE process is the least bad option to keep open channels and maintain continued focus on securing cyberspace.

Cherian Samuel |
March 21, 2018 |
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Xi Sets China on a New Long March

Xi rides the Dragon which is externally formidable but internally fragile. He is aware of the consequences of his policies going awry.

G.G. Dwivedi |
March 14, 2018 |
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Cabinet Decides to Redefine MSMEs – Defence Sector to Benefit

The new system of classifying enterprises based on annual turnover will be more reliable, transparent and objective as the qualifying criteria will be verifiable with reference to the data available...

Amit Cowshish |
March 13, 2018 |
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India-Jordan Relations: An Ascendant Partnership

King Abdullah II’s forthcoming visit to India represents an opportunity to catapult the relationship to the next higher level in strategic, security, political, energy, trade, investment and economic cooperation.

Ashok Sajjanhar |
February 26, 2018 |
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The Coming of the Petroyuan?

China’s launch of a yuan-denominated oil futures exchange will provide it with the opportunity to create an Asian crude oil benchmark and give it more clout in crude pricing and...

Shebonti Ray Dadwal |
February 22, 2018 |
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India and Iran Resolve to Focus on Connectivity and Economic Cooperation

Notwithstanding differences on some issues, chiefly, Afghanistan and India’s UNSC aspirations, India and Iran have decided to focus their energies on areas of concurrence such as connectivity and economic cooperation.

Ashok Sajjanhar |
February 20, 2018 |
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Can the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Overcome the Leadership Crisis?

Political instability in the wake of the arrest of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia in a corruption case will not portend well for Bangladesh and the region.

Smruti S. Pattanaik |
February 15, 2018 |
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The Crypto Heist in Japan: Regulator’s Dilemma, Consumer’s Detriment

The dexterity with which Japan handles this case and the follow-up measures it adopts will strongly influence other countries to either liberalise the use of cryptocurrencies or strictly forbid them...

Munish Sharma |
February 13, 2018 |
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Jordan is more than a transit point

Indian assistance to the Palestinians could not be routed through Israel without political controversy both at home and abroad, and India cannot help the Palestinians constructively without coordinating with Jordan.

P. R. Kumaraswamy |
February 12, 2018 |
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