Deconstructing the Joint Statement Diplomatic and political naivety, coupled with enormous pressure from a clueless America helplessly flailing its superpower muscle in the Af-Pak region, and of course that old disease that all Indian... Sushant Sareen | July 20, 2009 | IDSA Comments
Tackling or Trailing the Taliban : An Assessment Due to the long and porous border between Pakistan and Afghanistan, the situation in the region could worsen with Taliban groups from both sides joining hands to fight the US... Harinder Singh | July 20, 2009 | Issue Brief
Indo-Pak Joint Statement: India puts faith in Pakistan’s sincerity Pakistan’s Prime Minister Gilani and Indian Prime Minster Manmohan Singh signed a joint statement on July 16, 2009 at Sharm el-Sheikh inEgypt on the margins of theNAM summit. In India... Arvind Gupta | July 20, 2009 | IDSA Comments
Moon Mission Malfunction It is a dream project not only for India’s space research organization (ISRO) but for all Indians. With the successful launch of the Moon Mission, ISRO had put India into... Ajey Lele | July 20, 2009 | IDSA Comments
Outsourcing and Vendor Development in the Indian Ordnance Factories Ordnance factories are the oldest and largest single organisation in India's defence industrial set up. The organisation is found to be inefficient and uncompetitive from the angles of market share,... N. Neihsial | July 2009 | Journal of Defence Studies
Saving India-U.S. Partnership U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton addressed the U.S.-India Business Council in Washington D.C. on 17th June rekindling hope that India-U.S. relations could regain some of the traction lost under... Thomas Mathew | July 19, 2009 | IDSA Comments
Community Participation in Border Management India's territorial borders, both land and sea, suffer from diverse physical, ethnic and cultural contradictions. While the state has a major role in securing war frontier, the populations along territorial... Om Shankar Jha | July 2009 | Journal of Defence Studies
Keynote Address at the Eleventh Asian Security Conference All-out wars are no longer the norm for settling disputes among states. Rapid globalisation has led to profound changes by creating interdependence amongst states and people making inter-state wars an... A. K. Antony | July 2009 | Journal of Defence Studies
Joint Logistics: The Way Forward Joint logistics is an emerging imperative in the Indian operational context. The author argues that there is a tremendous scope for integration of logistics amongst the three services. A number... S. Bhalla | July 2009 | Journal of Defence Studies
Chinese Naval Strategy in the Twenty First Century: The Turn to Mahan In order to gauge the likely direction of Chinese foreign and security policy, it is important to follow Chinese commentary on how Beijing should manage its ascent to 'peaceful rise'... S. Rajasimman | July 2009 | Journal of Defence Studies
