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
Enhancing Manufacturing Capability for Efficient Offsets Absorption Since Independence, as a policy, Defence R&D in India had been reserved for the state sector with the DRDO having been established with the mandate to conduct research into Defence... J.D. Patil , Mukesh Bhargava | January 2009 | Journal of Defence Studies
Obama as Tech president: Leading the Way Among the many monikers that Barack Obama has collected as he enters office is that of being the first "Tech President". In the days since his victory, Obama has already... Cherian Samuel | January 23, 2009 | IDSA Comments
Redefining France’s Role in Afghanistan: Need for better Strategy In a recent poll for the newspaper Le Parisien, 55 per cent of the French public expressed their disagreement with the presence of the French military in Afghanistan. A number... Guillem Monsonis | January 22, 2009 | IDSA Comments
David Miliband is not Right British Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, arrived in India on his two-day visit on 13 January, barely a month and a half after the carnage in Mumbai. His visit was controversial... Thomas Mathew | January 22, 2009 | IDSA Comments
Budget Utilisation and Accountability Every year as India approaches the Budget session of Parliament, there are debates in various forums about the adequacy of Budget allocation to meet the modernization plan of the Services... Arvind Kadyan | January 21, 2009 | IDSA Comments
Partisanship can hurt India’s Internal Security Management It is perhaps a truism that issues concerning India’s internal security like terrorism, Naxalism and insurgencies in the North East require a dynamic multi-pronged approach spread across states to manage... Namrata Goswami | January 20, 2009 | IDSA Comments
David Miliband’s visit to India An article by the British Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, in The Guardian (January 15) in which he suggested, “resolution of the dispute over Kashmir would help deny extremists in the... Alok Rashmi Mukhopadhyay | January 20, 2009 | IDSA Comments
Keynote Address at Defence Offsets Seminar Offsets are today a common feature of international arms trade. It is estimated that offsets and related forms of counter-trade constitute 5 to 30 per cent of global trade. More... A. K. Antony | January 2009 | Journal of Defence Studies
