Bhasha Dam: A Tomb Stone of Gilgit-Baltistan’s Aspirations This year Pakistan is facing an acute water shortage and the shortage during the current Rabi crop is estimated to be around 35 to 40 per cent, which will adversely... Priyanka Singh , Alok Bansal | January 31, 2009 | IDSA Comments
Indus Water Treaty: Zardari ups the ante on Water Issues In an article published by Washington Post on January 28, 2009, Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari hinted that Pakistan regards water as a major issue in bilateral relations with India.... Arvind Gupta | January 30, 2009 | IDSA Comments
Indo-US Missile Defence Cooperation: Hype or Happening? In early January 2009, the Financial Times reported “preliminary talks” between US and India on possible sale of systems for an Indian ballistic missile defence (BMD) shield. The daily quoted... A. Vinod Kumar | January 30, 2009 | IDSA Comments
Learning from the American Experience in Counter Terrorism It has been widely noted that the US has not suffered a terrorist attack since 9/11. This is because it undertook major reform of its homeland security structures following the... Arvind Gupta | January 30, 2009 | IDSA Comments
Foregrounding ‘Non-Combatant Immunity’ A fundamental principle of humanitarian law, non-combatant immunity, has been virtually consigned to history during the Bush years. To a large extent this can be considered a ‘success’ for terrorists.... Ali Ahmed | January 30, 2009 | IDSA Comments
Obama’s Likely Policy Towards North East Asia Expectations are high in Japan, both in the general public and amongst the elite, after Democrat Barack Obama’s ascendancy to the American Presidency. Japan was clearly uncomfortable with Republican Bush... Rajaram Panda | January 29, 2009 | IDSA Comments
Offset Absorption: Adding Arsenal to Armament Considering the volume of defence expenditure planned in the 11th Five Year Plan and in the future, it is certainly befitting for each recipient service to debate methods and procedures... S. Samaddar | January 2009 | Journal of Defence Studies
Global Security Environment: Challenges and Prospects There seems to be a consensus worldwide among the members of the strategic and academic community that the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) has been the greatest danger…... Arvind Kumar | January-March 2009 | CBW Magazine
The Emerging Biological Weapons Threat and Proliferation Of the triad of weapons of mass destruction, nuclear weapons that have been the focus of attention followed by chemical weapons. But it must be remembered that there is an…... Sudha Raman | January-March 2009 | CBW Magazine
What India can learn from Global Offset Experiences Boeing has successfully implemented offset programmes in over 35 countries completing over $29 billion in offset commitments and we are currently engaged in executing over 45 active programmes valued at... Vivek Lall | January 2009 | Journal of Defence Studies
