Indian Airpower Afloat The Indian navy has long aspired for a true blue water capability and the aircraft carrier project is a critical part of safeguarding India’s maritime interest that includes providing security... Vivek Kapur | September 02, 2013 | IDSA Comments
Vietnam-US Rapprochement: A New Phase Vietnam’s president Sang’s visit to the US is historic in many ways and promises to bring in a new era of partnership through active trade relations and strategic alliance as... Rahul Mishra | September 02, 2013 | IDSA Comments
Arrest of Yasin Bhatkal: An Analysis The arrest of Bhatkal, head of the Indian Mujahideen, highlights the measures taken by security agencies including improved coordination in different states to apprehend a number of terrorists in the... Anshuman Behera | September 02, 2013 | IDSA Comments
The Kenya-ICC Standoff Uhuru Kenyatta's election as the president of Kenya is important both with respect to the Kenyan internal politics and the larger implications for the legal regime of the International Criminal... Saurabh Mishra | September 2013 | Africa Trends
Terror attack in Kenya: resurgence of Alshabaab? The recent terror attack in Nairobi has brought focus on Kenya's involvement in Somalia and indicates that despite the African Union forces' successes last year the Somalia based terrorist group,... Ruchita Beri | September 2013 | Africa Trends
China in and Beyond the Headlines The book China in and Beyond the Headlines is a collection of 16 contributions written by scholars and experts on various aspects of Chinese politics, society and economy. Considering that... Gunjan Singh | September 2013 | Strategic Analysis
The China Fallacy: How the US Can Benefit from China’s Rise and Avoid another Cold War There have been many studies on US foreign policy towards China dwelling specifically on the efficacy of the US strategy of containment. Donald Gross’s book is an addition to this... Abanti Bhattacharya | September 2013 | Strategic Analysis
The Untold History of the United States Filmmaker Oliver Stone and historian Peter Kuznick’s The Untold History of the United States is an uncompromising and riveting account of the uncomfortable aspects of American history. The book studies... Atul K. Thakur | September 2013 | Strategic Analysis
Debacle to Resurgence: Y.B. Chavan, Defence Minister (1962–66) Relatively little is known about Y.B. Chavan, India’s defence minister from 1962 to 1966. He replaced the controversial Mr. Krishna Menon on 19 November 1962, when India’s war with China... Arvind Gupta | September 2013 | Strategic Analysis
The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter: A Global Snapshot The United States dominates global defence markets, but the nature of this dominance is shifting. Strategic and budgetary considerations—the latter being constantly restructured by the rising relative cost of defence... Srdjan Vucetic | September 2013 | Strategic Analysis
