Effectiveness of Quality Assurance in Army Procurements A closed loop feedback system for ensuring the quality of the Army equipment exists. Notwithstanding this, a number of Army equipment show a high failure rate at crucial times and... Mahendra Prasad | July 2013 | Journal of Defence Studies
Learning by Doing: The PLA Trains at Home and Abroad by Roy Kamphausen, David Lai and Travis Tanner Learning by Doing: The PLA Trains at Home and Abroad analyses the Chinese People’s Liberation Army’s (PLA) training exercises and its joint international drills after the year 2000. Drawing on... Prashant Kumar Singh | July 2013 | Journal of Defence Studies
NSG Plenary Meeting: Nothing Inspiring The Prague plenary seemingly skirted the ongoing China-Pakistan nuclear collaboration, now a well known chronic weakness of the NSG. Even the public statement did not mention a single line about... Rajiv Nayan | July 11, 2013 | IDSA Comments
Ouster of President Morsi and its Implications The Islamic Brotherhood, vastly experienced in handling stress situations, is not going to take the ouster of its nominee and the democratically elected President with any sense of resignation. R. S. Kalha | July 09, 2013 | IDSA Comments
The Increasing Complexity of the Internationalised Syrian Conflict Into its third year, the Syrian conflict has been fuelled by a multiplicity of interest groups and countries, overshadowing the initial cause of the protests. Gains for either side in... Melissa M. Cyrill | July 08, 2013 | Issue Brief
Evolution of Aerial Combat Trends towards direct energy weapons (DEW), though yet to be fully mature and battle proven, indicate a major shift in the conduct of aerial combat in the coming decades. Vivek Kapur | July 08, 2013 | Issue Brief
India Enters New Era of Space Navigation One of the biggest advantages of the navigational satellite, once the system gets fully operational, is to reduce the dependency on the GPS. This would make India largely self-sufficient in... Ajey Lele | July 08, 2013 | IDSA Comments
Reinventing Defence Procurement in India: Lessons from Other Countries and An Integrative Framework Over the past decade, defence capital acquisition reforms have enhanced standardization, transparency and bigger acquisition budgets. Yet the system grapples with delays, cost escalations and gaps in operational preparedness. This... Vandana Kumar | July 2013 | Journal of Defence Studies
The Maoist Threat As a nation, we have a tendency to react once a crisis overtakes us. This holds good in the case of natural disasters like the annual floods in the North-East,... Deepak Kapoor | July 2013 | Journal of Defence Studies
Role of the Indian Military in Disasters It needs to be noted that discipline and efficiency is the first demand in disaster response and relief tasks, which are often dangerous missions and quite naturally the military brings... P. K. Gautam | July 05, 2013 | IDSA Comments
