Need to Take a More Confident View of Kabul Fears about the Beijing-Rawalpindi axis scripting Kabul politics and thereby causing the complete marginalisation of New Delhi in the region appear far-fetched given the political dynamics of Afghanistan. Vishal Chandra | April 28, 2015 | IDSA Comments
India should rethink its Afghan policy India should continue to play the Afghan game but no longer by showering financial largesse but by deploying its skills of political manoeuvring. P. Stobdan | April 28, 2015 | IDSA Comments
Learning from Beijing; Tackling Delhi’s Air Pollution Challenge India and China could and should cooperate on environmental issues and specifically on clean urbanization because there is scope to develop a shared understanding of the problems and solutions. Avinash Godbole | April 27, 2015 | IDSA Comments
Iran-P5+1 Lausanne Framework: Issues and Challenges This Issue Brief looks back at the implementation of the JPOA and examines the extent to which the recent framework (JCPOA) agreed upon at Lausanne adheres to the letter and... S. Samuel C. Rajiv , G. Balachandran | April 23, 2015 | Issue Brief
India’s Special Forces: An Appraisal At a time when the battlefield has been progressively transforming from the conventional to unconventional, the role of Special Forces will become critical in shaping its outcome. Conflicts in the... Amit Kumar | April 2015 | Journal of Defence Studies
Afghanistan and the Region Answers to all of Afghan problems can easily be found within the regional context. But the Afghan leadership is not likely to uphold the regional choice now. P. Stobdan | April 20, 2015 | Issue Brief
Fit for Command: Leadership Attributes for PSO–COIN Operations Peace support operations (PSO)–counter-insurgency (COIN) operations are different and often significantly more complex than conventional operations. Such a complexity places greater demand on military leaders both at the tactical and... Ivo Moerman , Paolo Tripodi | April 2015 | Journal of Defence Studies
Policing Insurgencies: Cops as Counterinsurgents, edited by C. Christine Fair and Sumit Ganguly Counter-insurgency, referred to as COIN with the usual military fondness for abbreviations, is commonly understood as a military-centric effort that seeks to overwhelm the insurgents with superior numbers, firepower, technology,... Akash S. Goud | April 2015 | Journal of Defence Studies
Drone Warfare, by John Kaag and Sarah Kreps Drones are unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) that can carry a payload for the purpose of reconnaissance and surveillance; and those that are armed with missiles and bombs carry a payload... S.K. Dey | April 2015 | Journal of Defence Studies
Can War be Eliminated?, by Christopher Coker Imagine a book that talks of war, of all wars that have been fought in all of human history. One could be forgiven for assuming that such a volume would... Vikas Jain | April 2015 | Journal of Defence Studies
