Operation Golden Bird: Revisiting Counter-Insurgency on the India-Myanmar Border Operation Golden Bird, conducted along the Indo-Myanmar border in the North-Eastern state of Mizoram under the aegis of 57 Mountain Division (57 Mtn Div) in April–May 1995, has often been... Rumel Dahiya | July 2016 | Journal of Defence Studies
Die in Battle, Do not Despair: The Indians on Gallipoli 1915, by Peter Stanley The First World War of 1914-1918 was a very significant event in the history of the world. It led to the dissolution of five empires and redrawing of the map... Adil Chhina | July 2016 | Journal of Defence Studies
Online Radicalisation: The Example of Burhan Wani Effective use of social media fuelled Wani’s rise to prominence. His skills in this domain radicalised youth in greater numbers than had previously been achieved using more conventional methods. Prabha Rao | July 16, 2016 | Issue Brief
UNIFIL: The Many Challenges of Successful Peacekeeping Nations from the developed world have rarely participated in complex and difficult UN peacekeeping operations (PKOs) while those from the developing world have rich peacekeeping experience. The United Nations Interim... A.K. Bardalai | July 2016 | Journal of Defence Studies
Progress with the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention: Insights from four regional workshops held in 2016 On 3 November I was invited to speak at an international conference in Brussels organised by the European Union (EU) Non-Proliferation Consortium.1 The session was called: The Biological and Toxin…... Jean Pascal Zanders | July-December 2016 | CBW Magazine
Peace in South Sudan in the aftermath of the July 2016 Crisis Events of July 2016 have shattered the progress towards peace in South Sudan. The international community needs to put in more efforts to ensure that leaders of warring factions fulfill... Adarsha Verma | July-September 2016 | Africa Trends
EU-Libya Migrant Deal Given the lack of feasibility of other policy initiatives in order to deal with Libya, from where majority of migrants cross-over, militarisation remains the only option. Even the military solution... Nachiket Khadkiwala | July-September 2016 | Africa Trends
Indian Prime Minister’s visit to Africa: New Avenues of Cooperation Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Africa will go a long way in cementing ties with the African countries in the field of food security, energy and defence. At the... Ruchita Beri | July-September 2016 | Africa Trends
The US Pivot and Indian Foreign Policy: Asia’s Evolving Balance of Power, by Harsh V. Pant and Yogesh Joshi The US Pivot and Indian Foreign Policy is based on the premise of the ascendance of Chinese power and relative decline of the United States (US) on the world stage... Niranjan Chandrashekhar Oak | July 2016 | Journal of Defence Studies
The Hague Ruling on the South China Sea: Has David Taken Down Goliath Whether the ruling would induce China to adopt a fresh look at the dispute or it would only further complicate the domestic and regional political situations will depend on the... Prashant Kumar Singh | July 14, 2016 | IDSA Comments
