RMA and India’s Military Transformation The attitudes of the military globally towards revolution in military affairs (RMA) have largely been influenced in recent times by the US Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan and Operation Iraqi... V. K. Kapoor | Winter 2008 | Journal of Defence Studies
Imperative of Exercising Control over the ISI The deadly terrorist attack in Mumbai is set to derail India-Pakistan bilateral relations. With all the evidence pointing towards Pakistan, it has become difficult to advocate that India must go... Smruti S. Pattanaik | December 11, 2008 | IDSA Comments
Mumbai Attacks and the Need for Enhanced India-US Defence Cooperation The staggered attacks on Mumbai across seven places were extremely demanding on time and resources required for counter operations. The attacks have also amply demonstrated that there is no scope... Arvind Dutta | December 11, 2008 | IDSA Comments
Lessons from the 9/11 Commission The unprecedented scale of the terror attacks in Mumbai and the fact that citizens from more than 20-plus countries were killed or injured in the attacks have evoked an international... Cherian Samuel | December 10, 2008 | IDSA Comments
The Train to Lhasa The Olympics are over. The tourists and sportspersons from all over the world who flew to Beijing are back after being dazzled by the massive sporting infrastructure of a new... Shailender Arya | Winter 2008 | Journal of Defence Studies
The Pakistan Link to the Mumbai Terror Attacks Investigations into the attacks in Mumbai and subsequent developments point to the role of the Pakistan based Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) as the key player that orchestrated the well coordinated attacks. The... Shanthie Mariet D'Souza | December 05, 2008 | IDSA Comments
Fishing in Troubled Waters Investigations into the Mumbai attacks have revealed that the terrorists came in from the sea. It has been reported that in the course of their journey from Karachi they had... Pushpita Das | December 05, 2008 | IDSA Comments
Mumbai Attacks: A Deadly “Performance” For 62 hours, from the night of November 26 to the morning of November 29, the city of Mumbai was held hostage to terror attacks. A significant element in these... Namrata Goswami | December 05, 2008 | IDSA Comments
China and the Global Financial Crisis The global financial crisis which had been brewing for some time began to unfold in the middle of 2008. Stock markets around the world have nosedived, large financial institutions have... Gunjan Singh | December 04, 2008 | IDSA Comments
The Need to Refine India’s Response to Terrorist Incidents The November 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai which left more than 170 people killed and close to 300 injured did not conform to the pattern to which Indian security agencies... Satinder K. Saini | December 03, 2008 | IDSA Comments
