How North Korea was Armed China and to a lesser extent Pakistan have helped North Korea with its nuclear and missile development programmes. Prabha Rao | October 30, 2017 | Issue Brief
South Asian Geopolitics: Has Pakistan Lost its Plot? Fighting to the End: The Pakistan Army’s Way of War, by C. Christine Fair, New York: Oxford University Press, 2014, pp. 343, £27.99 Defeat is an Orphan: How Pakistan Lost... Abhay Kumar Singh | October 2017 | Journal of Defence Studies
High End in the Pacific: Envisioning the Upper Limits of India-US Naval Cooperation in Pacific-Asia The article argues that India and the United States are poised to strengthen their bilateral strategic convergences, not only in the Indian Ocean but also in Pacific-Asia that lies eastwards... Gurpreet S Khurana | October 2017 | Journal of Defence Studies
The Trump Challenge to the JCPOA Trump’s new policy statement on Iran has enveloped the UNSC-approved Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action in a shroud of uncertainty that could lead to further instability in conflict-ridden West Asia. S. Samuel C. Rajiv | October 24, 2017 | IDSA Comments
India’s Strategic Connect with the World The various connectivity projects put forward by India show its involvement as an investor in capacity-building efforts in the recipient countries across sectors of their particular needs and choices, not... Sreemati Ganguli | October 23, 2017 | IDSA Comments
A Rock between Hard Places: Afghanistan as an Arena of Regional Insecurity, by Kristian Berg Harpviken and Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh The book, A Rock between Hard Places, is the result of research carried out by K.B. Harpviken and S. Tadjbakhsh, independently and jointly, with encouragement from the Ministry of Foreign... Y.M. Bammi | October 2017 | Journal of Defence Studies
Foreign Policy and Sea Power: India’s Maritime Role Flux The core argument this article makes is that India’s maritime worldview and role conceptions have not only been evolving since the 1950s, but they have also been closely interlinked with... Zorawar Daulet Singh | October 2017 | Journal of Defence Studies
War from the Ground Up: Twenty-first-century Combat as Politics, by Emile Simpson War from the Ground Up is not easy reading. The author’s erudition, bolstered by a wealth of detail and historical context, makes this one of the more serious studies on... Alok Deb | October 2017 | Journal of Defence Studies
Examining the US Defence Acquisition Apparatus: What can India Learn? The United States (US) defence acquisition apparatus, arguably the biggest in the world, has undergone several reforms in the past 100 years. The reforms, which have focused on both structural... Laxman Kumar Behera | October 2017 | Journal of Defence Studies
Standing Committee on Defence’s Prescription for increasing Capital Budget May Not Work The Thirty-first Report of the Standing Committee on Defence (SCoD)1 was submitted to Parliament on 9 March 2017. The report examined the capital outlay for the defence services for the... Amit Cowshish | October 2017 | Journal of Defence Studies
