PLA’s Top 10 Exercises in 2012: An Analysis An analysis of these exercises reveals some interesting insights into the People's Liberation Army (PLA) thinking, its priorities, areas of interest and countries of concern. Mandip Singh | March 21, 2013 | IDSA Comments
Why India must vote against Sri Lanka at the UNHRC? India must vote against Sri Lanka in the UNHRC in order to force the latter to set up its own enquiry commission on war crimes, implement the recommendations of the... Smruti S. Pattanaik | March 20, 2013 | IDSA Comments
The Legacy of Hugo Chavez Chavez’s significance lies in his attempts to liberalise the international monetary system with regard to credit support for poverty alleviation schemes in Latin America outside the ambit of the IMF... Gautam Sen | March 20, 2013 | IDSA Comments
Siachen: Possible New International Moves for ‘Mediation’ India must develop comprehensive and workable proposals to not just tone down the present Indo-Pak standoff on the glacier and the international attention it may be inviting, but also to... P. K. Upadhyay | March 20, 2013 | IDSA Comments
The Arab Churning and Implications For the Arabs, India’s caution, slow responses and long periods of situation assessments re-affirmed stereotypes about its inability to assume a leadership role in international affairs. However, given the volatility,... P. Stobdan | March 20, 2013 | IDSA Comments
Analytical Quality Ranking of Equipment under Procurement: An Improvement of Contemporary Practice Parameters, dimensions and operational requirements specified by the user must be evaluated exclusively by the user trial team, while DGQA must concentrate only on the testing of quality encompassing the... Mahendra Prasad | March 20, 2013 | IDSA Comments
Iraq: Ten Years after the US-Led Invasion The US has spent over a trillion and a half dollars and this huge expenditure has nearly unhinged its domestic economic equilibrium. At the strategic level the results for the... R. S. Kalha | March 20, 2013 | IDSA Comments
Revolution in Nepal: Bolshevik-style? The Baidya-driven radicals want to adopt the party line of the Second National Conference in 2001 when they had decided to supplement their Chinese model of revolution (protracted people’s war)... Post Bahadur Basnet | March 20, 2013 | IDSA Comments
China’s Defence Budget: 2013-14 The PLA has been laying emphasis on human resource management. Recruitment, salaries, living standards, perks and education are likely to get an impetus with attendant advantages of morale, motivation and... Mandip Singh | March 18, 2013 | IDSA Comments
The War Crimes Trial and Forthcoming Elections in Bangladesh Even as it stands firm on the issue of proceeding with the war crimes trials, the Awami League government should not make the mistake of going for an election without... Anand Kumar | March 18, 2013 | IDSA Comments
