China’s New Security Law: Some Preliminary Observations By extending the notion of national security to the domains of space and the earth’s poles, the Chinese government has expressed its determination to undertake every measure to safeguard interests... Gunjan Singh | July 14, 2015 | IDSA Comments
China’s Preference for Border Peace and Control over Early Resolution Even if China has not stated that it cannot settle the border question with India in the immediate future, its actions certainly hint at its preference for border peace and... M.S. Prathibha | July 14, 2015 | IDSA Comments
The 1965 Indo-Pak War: Through Today’s Lens This article seeks to analyse the lessons of the 1965 Indo-Pak war that are applicable today. It finds that the current army doctrine, Cold Start, has some similarities to the... Ali Ahmed | July 2015 | Journal of Defence Studies
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... 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... 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... 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... Ajey Lele , Gunjan Singh | July 01, 2015 | IDSA Comments
