Furthering ‘No First Use’ in India-Pakistan Context Pakistan has not subscribed to No First Use. That it could do so has been expressed informally by its President Zardari. India could take up the issue with Pakistan at... Ali Ahmed | July 2009 | Journal of Defence Studies
F-22 Raptor : Economics versus Technology The US Department of Defence has been contemplating whether to lift the ban on F-22 exports, the fifth generation stealth aircraft. This would mean that many of the US allies... Pankaj K Jha | July 13, 2009 | IDSA Comments
Emerging East Asian Security Architecture Security in the traditional sense of the term constitutes only a partial facet of its overarching depiction. A comprehensive concept, a holistic view of security must include social cohesion, emotional... V. P. Dutta | July 2009 | Journal of Defence Studies
Counter Bio-Terror Modern Nation States are complex systems that today suffer from the affliction of terrorism, which can attack its vital centers and connective tissue. Even as nation’s try to counter, terrorists…... Peter Garretson | July-September 2009 | CBW Magazine
Countering the Naxalites: Is there a need to ‘bring in’ the Army? As the Prime Minister and the Union Home Minister emphasized in the Chief Minister's Conference on Internal security in August and again in the Conference of the Director Generals of... Shanthie Mariet D'Souza | July 2009 | Journal of Defence Studies
Developments in Major Arms Producing Countries The global defence industry has undergone serious restructuring since the end of Cold War. Military production has increasingly become concentrated in the hands of fewer but larger defence firms. The... Richard A. Bitzinger | July 2009 | Journal of Defence Studies
China’s eagle eye on Arunachal Referring to India’s recent troop deployment in Arunachal Pradesh and the construction of a new airbase at Tezpur, Assam, Zhang Haizjou writing in China Daily on June 10, 2009 states... Jagannath P. Panda | July 10, 2009 | IDSA Comments
China’s Xinjiang Problem It all started on 26 June in the toy factory owned by the Hong Kong-listed Lacewood International in China’s Shaoguan city of Guangdong province. An official news agency wrote "Six... P. Stobdan | July 09, 2009 | IDSA Comments
Indian Naval Strategy in the Twenty First Century Construed as expanding rings of expanding circles, India's maritime environs exhibit varying degrees of complexity and competitiveness. Each successive ring bears its own characteristics, opportunities, challenges and distinctive nuances. As... Rahul Mishra | July 2009 | Journal of Defence Studies
The central debate in India’s civil military relations Critics have it that the last bout of reforms in India’s defence sector in the wake of Kargil has not been taken to its logical conclusion. There are two key... Ali Ahmed | July 06, 2009 | IDSA Comments
