Nigeria’s Naval Power – Reviving capacity after prolonged decline The Nigerian Navy is slowly clawing its way back to being a viable force capable of performing critical missions in respect of EEZ surveillance and patrol. It possesses an adequate... Sanjay Badri-Maharaj | July-December 2018 | Africa Trends
Functional Maritime Security Enforcement Collaboration: Towards A Sustainable Blue Economy in Africa Africa has an extensive and strategically located maritime space. This domain is vital for various reasons, including its abundance of economic resources and as a conduit for trade. Unfortunately, the... Njoki Mboce | July-December 2018 | Africa Trends
Under the Radar: China’s Growing Ties with Comoros Aid to, and investment in, strategically located countries in the IOR to establish a strong presence has been the thrust of the Chinese strategy. The steadily growing economic cooperation with... Maitreyee Shilpa Kishor | July-December 2018 | Africa Trends
Libya’s political process: Delicate progress, gigantic challenges While the political process is delicately poised and is making slow progress, there remain gigantic challenges to surmount. The main issues of contention among the different groups are sharing of... Prasanta Kumar Pradhan | July-December 2018 | Africa Trends
Russia’s Foiled Cyber Attack on OPCW Russia’s mushrooming cyber capabilities is well evident in the series of cyber activities that it has been undertaking lately. The country has been blamed for directing a host of cyber-attacks…... Kritika Roy | July-December 2018 | CBW Magazine
Mission Overseas: Daring Operations by the Indian Military, by Sushant Singh Military history has four main genres. The first is the ‘official’ military history, or a military historian’s narrative. It is a narration of facts given as accurately as possible, written... Ghanshyam Katoch | July-September 2018 | Journal of Defence Studies
Iran Sanctions: India’s Options Given that Iran accounts for around 10 per cent of India total oil imports, the immediate factor for New Delhi will be to look at various options to deal with... Shebonti Ray Dadwal | July 12, 2018 | IDSA Comments
The Battlefields of Imphal: The Second World War and North East India, by Hemant Singh Katoch In 2013, in a poll on ‘Britain’s Greatest Battle’, the twin victories at Imphal–Kohima during the Second World War were voted as the winner of the poll. If one recalls... Y.M. Bammi | July-September 2018 | Journal of Defence Studies
Curbing Fake News Eradicating the fake news problem calls for a collective effort of individuals, governments, social media and content platforms, and innovative technology solutions. Munish Sharma | July 11, 2018 | IDSA Comments
Averting India’s Fall into a Geopolitical Trap Prime Minister Narendra Modi has made a foreign policy course-correction after realising that the strategic tilt towards the United States has not only grossly upset India’s geopolitical image but also... P. Stobdan | July 06, 2018 | IDSA Comments