The Strategy Trap: India and Pakistan Under the Nuclear Shadow Ever since India and Pakistan emerged as declared nuclear weapon states in 1998, national security ideation in both countries has factored in the nuclear dimension in significantly different ways. While... Arjun Subramaniam | January-March 2019 | Journal of Defence Studies
The New Saudi Initiative of ‘Arab and African Coastal States of the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden’ Facing huge political and security challenges in the Arabian Peninsula, Saudi Arabia now looks westward to the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden coast for a new regional security... Prasanta Kumar Pradhan | January 15, 2019 | IDSA Comments
Deciphering Beijing’s Digital Connection in Africa As the digital infrastructure backed by China becomes increasingly prevalent in the African continent, it is also important for the latter to have enough oversight to ensure that these tools... Kritika Roy | January-June 2019 | Africa Trends
AMISOM amidst the Dangers of Al-Shabaab It will be difficult to build a set of genuine national security forces when there is no widespread agreement on what constitutes the Somali ‘nation’ and how it should be... Aarushi Vikram | January-June 2019 | Africa Trends
South African President’s visit to India enhances relations South African President Cyril Ramaphosa’s visit to India provided an opportunity to honour the contribution of Nelson Mandela and Mahatma Gandhi and reinvigorate India’s relations with South Africa, a strategic... Ruchita Beri | January-June 2019 | Africa Trends
A lesson from crisis management in South Sudan The work for the Department of Peace Operations is thus amply clear. It must privilege the substantive side in its thinking as it approaches mandate making. This would ease the... Ali Ahmed | January-June 2019 | Africa Trends
India in Nuclear Asia: Evolution of Regional Forces, Perceptions and Policies In India in Nuclear Asia, authors Yogesh Joshi and Frank O’Donnell do a rigorous job of unpacking the layers that have constituted India’s nuclear journey, especially since going overtly nuclear... S. Samuel C. Rajiv | January-March 2019 | Journal of Defence Studies
Tiger Check: Automating the US Air Force Fighter Pilot in Air-to-Air Combat, 1950–1980 Warriors, with courage and integrity as their distinguishing traits, have been always respected. Skilful warriors, such as military aviators, have created a special place for themselves in the society. In... Kishore Kumar Khera | January-March 2019 | Journal of Defence Studies
An Era of True Fakes With increasing advances in artificial intelligence technologies and machine learning, a new era of deep fakes has emerged, which has the potential to weaken the fabric of democratic society. Kritika Roy | January 10, 2019 | IDSA Comments
Great Power Rivalry Reaches Africa With John Bolton conceding that the US has limited resources to compete with the tens of billions of dollars that China is pouring into Africa, it is not clear how... Anand Kumar | January 09, 2019 | IDSA Comments
