India–Pakistan Relations After the Mumbai Terror Attacks: What Should India Do? Arvind Gupta , S. Kalyanaraman , Ashok K. Behuria | May 2009 | Strategic Analysis
A Cold Start: India’s Response to Pakistan-Aided Low-Intensity Conflict A decade after the Kargil conflict and over seven years after the major Indian military mobilization along the Line of Control (LoC) with Pakistan, both countries were yet again on... A. Vinod Kumar | May 2009 | Strategic Analysis
Nuclear Weapons and War The November 2008 Mumbai terror attacks that shook the world again had tangible links to the security and intelligence establishment of Pakistan. The emergent situation is forcing the policy-making community... Rajiv Nayan | May 2009 | Strategic Analysis
Jihad Beyond Jammu & Kashmir Despite the instant denial issued by the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) of its involvement in the November 26 Mumbai terrorist attacks, it is clear that the attacks were the latest manifestation... Shanthie Mariet D’Souza | May 2009 | Strategic Analysis
Militant Training Camps in Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir: An Existential Threat Investigations into Mumbai's 26/11 attack made startling revelations about the militant training camps in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK). The Mumbai perpetrators started from Baitul-Mujahideen in Muzaffarabad, the capital of the so-called... Priyanka Singh | May 2009 | Strategic Analysis
Nuclear Weapons and India–Pakistan Relations India-Pakistan relations are best understood as an example of nuclear rivalry, in which nuclear weapons both exacerbate and limit hostility. In all such relationships, the minimal possession of nuclear weapons... Rajesh M. Basrur | May 2009 | Strategic Analysis
Nuclear Weapons and India-Pakistan Relations: A Complementary Comment Nuclear weapons deter by the possibility of their use, and in no other way. Although US and Soviet arsenals became grotesquely excessive in both numbers and diversity in the late... Michael Quinlan | May 2009 | Strategic Analysis
Response to Dr. Quinlan’s Critique Dr. Quinlan and I are in fundamental agreement on the validity of nuclear deterrence as a national security strategy because the possibility of nuclear use cannot be ruled out. Where... Rajesh M. Basrur | May 2009 | Strategic Analysis
Kargil War: Reflections on the Tenth Anniversary Ten years later, the Kargil War still arouses deep emotions turning around Pakistan's gross perfidy, an intelligence failure, great heroism, military improvisation and innovation, a national upsurge, a most open... B. G. Verghese | May 2009 | Strategic Analysis
Reflections on the Kargil War The Kargil conflict can be categorized as a 'limited war'. It was initiated by Pakistan to achieve mixed military and political objectives, but made important misjudgments that doomed the enterprise... P. R. Chari | May 2009 | Strategic Analysis