India’s Defence Procurement Procedure: Assessing the Case for Review and Reforms his Issue Brief examines certain provisions relating to intellectual property rights and transfer of technology in India’s defence procurement procedures, together with suggestions on streamlining the same for achieving enhanced... Sandeep Verma | October 17, 2014 | Issue Brief
Turkey: ‘Sick Man’ of NATO In the West, there is growing realisation that only boots on the ground can defeat or substantially destroy the Daesh. Unless a ground force capable of taking back the territories... Sandhya Jain | October 17, 2014 | IDSA Comments
Can ISIS be degraded and destroyed? With the US determined not to commit troops, the military defeat of ISIS, at present, is therefore neither feasible nor imminent. Neither the so-called retrained Iraqi Army, nor US air... R. S. Kalha | October 17, 2014 | IDSA Comments
Insurgency in North-East India: External Dynamics State and non-state elements in India’s neighbourhood have been supporting insurgency in the North-East to weaken the Indian state. In the 1960s and 1970s, insurgents from the region, particularly the... Sushil Kumar Sharma | October 2014 | Journal of Defence Studies
Indian Perceptions of China’s Maritime Silk Road Idea The Maritime Silk Road (MSR) idea is part of this wider attempt by China to construct multiple lines of communication to its economic heartland in eastern China since the early... Zorawar Daulet Singh | October 2014 | Journal of Defence Studies
Energy and Security in South Asia: Cooperation or Conflict? by Charles K. Ebinger South Asia, with its legacy of suspicion, mistrust, ethnic sectarianism, and political parochialism would have fallen off the global map had it not been for its large and growing populations.... Rakesh Chopra | October 2014 | Journal of Defence Studies
North East in BCIM-EC: Problems and Prospects Widespread problems have made the operating environment ‘dysfunctional and inefficient’. Some of this is on account of inscrutable issues like ‘integration of the services with the MoD’ or ‘civil-military relations’... Rupak Bhattacharjee | October 14, 2014 | IDSA Comments
Embedding India in Asia: Reaffirming the Indo-Pacific Concept The emergence of the Indo-Pacific as a new geopolitical frame of reference is embedded in the growing strategic importance of the maritime domain and the rise of states that have... Chietigj Bajpaee | October 2014 | Journal of Defence Studies
Pakistan the Garrison State: Origins, Evolution, Consequences 1947–2011 by Ishtiaq Ahmed Pakistan has had a distinctive and chequered trajectory since its creation in August 1947, following the partition of British India, and was conceived on the basis of the contested two-nation... C Uday Bhaskar | October 2014 | Journal of Defence Studies
Statecraft and Intelligence Analysis in the Kautilya-Arthashastra In the Kautilya-Arthashastra, espionage and other ‘operational’ activities of the secret service—notably ‘active measures’ and ‘covert action’—are addressed often and in detail. In contrast, Kautilya seems to say very little... Michael Liebig | October 2014 | Journal of Defence Studies
