Operation Gibraltar: An Uprising that Never Was Launched in early-August 1965, Operation Gibraltar was designed to infiltrate several columns of trained and well-armed Mujahids and Razakars, led by Pakistan Army Majors into Jammu and Kashmir. Under the cover of fire provided by the Pakistan Army deployed on the Cease Fire Line (CFL), the columns managed to infiltrate, but failed to create large-scale disturbances and did not receive support from the people. In fact, locals often provided information about the columns to the Indian Army, which led to their being captured or neutralised. P. K. Chakravarty , Gurmeet Kanwal | July 2015 | Journal of Defence Studies
The Euro-Greece-Crisis: What Next? Will Europe sleepwalk into a Grexit and the attendant collapse of Euro and the European Union as it did in World War I about a hundred years ago? The answer depends mainly on Chancellor Merkel. K. P. Fabian | July 09, 2015 | IDSA Comments
Deciphering China’s Submarine Deployments in the Indian Ocean Region Indian Navy must focus fresh attention on the challenge posed by the Pakistan-China maritime nexus in the Western Indian Ocean. Abhijit Singh | July 08, 2015 | IDSA Comments
Talking Heads: Modi in Ufa Modi would find the Eurasian dynamics at odds with his vision of containing China along with the United States. He will have to display pragmatism for building greater convergence with China and Russia. P. Stobdan | July 08, 2015 | IDSA Comments
Modi’s Visit to Central Asia To reconnect with the Eurasian market, India needs to explore the option of a direct land-link through China, i.e., reviving the traditional Ladakh-Xinjiang axis as the natural gateway to Eurasia. P. Stobdan | July 06, 2015 | IDSA Comments
How Workable will Consultants be in the Existing Framework of the Ministry of External Affairs? There are also grey areas to the extent that the professional and hierarchical relationship which the Consultants will have with regular IFS officers is yet to be clearly outlined. Gautam Sen | July 06, 2015 | IDSA Comments
MERS: A New Virus Challenge East and Southeast Asia are known to get affected by various diseases routinely. Particularly, various waterborne and other diseases likely malaria and dengue fever commonly affect the regions. There is a concern that global warming may translate into explosive growth of mosquito-borne diseases. In addition to this, growing number of natural disasters are found escalating the health related challenges. All this eventually poses a threat to health, economic and human security. Ajey Lele , Gunjan Singh | July 01, 2015 | IDSA Comments
India and Pakistan: An Eternal Conflict! Shooting for a Century: Finding Answers to the India–Pakistan Conundrum, by Stephen P. Cohen S. Kalyanaraman | July 2015 | Journal of Defence Studies
Northeastern India and its neighbours: negotiating security and development by Rakhee Bhattacharya The insurgency movement in Northeast India, demanding various forms of autonomy including independence, is a constant concern for the maintenance of the country’s unity. It is further complicated due to the region’s strategic location, being almost entirely surrounded by several countries, and hence any development in these countries will certainly have implications for Northeast India. M. Amarjeet Singh | July 2015 | Strategic Analysis
India’s ocean: the story of India’s bid for regional leadership by David Brewster Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan once stated: ‘Whoever attains maritime supremacy in the Indian Ocean would be a prominent player on the international scene. Whoever controls the Indian Ocean dominates Asia. This Ocean is the key to the seven seas in the 21st century, the destiny of the world will be decided in these waters’.1 It is these prophetic words that are the pivot for the book under review, India’s Ocean: The Story of India’s Bid for Regional Leadership. Amrita Jash | July 2015 | Strategic Analysis
