Growth and Implications of Private Military Corporations Security, both as a concept and a policy objective, has been undergoing steady expansion in terms of its scope and focus. The concept, on the one hand, has steadily lost... Shantanu Chakrabarti | Summer 2008 | Journal of Defence Studies
Problems with Arms Imports Recent announcements of major arms acquisition programmes by the Indian government must have given a sense of elation to the armed forces, which have been waiting for long for some... N. Neihsial | June 03, 2008 | IDSA Comments
The Chlorine Gas Leak at Jamshedpur On the afternoon of May 27, the people of Jamshedpur were caught unaware. They were exposed to a dense, pale green, pungent and poisonous gas, Chlorine. This gas had leaked... Monalisa Joshi | May 31, 2008 | IDSA Comments
Defence Budget as a Strategic Tool of National Security The practice of converting defence plans into publicly known defence budget is essentially a practice of democratic governments. One reason for public disclosure of defence spending could be that tax... N. Neihsial | May 30, 2008 | IDSA Comments
Who are the “Indian Mujahideen”? At least nine co-ordinated blasts rocked Jaipur on May 13, 2008, killing more than 70 people and injuring 200. Subsequently, a little known Islamic militant group, Indian Mujahideen (henceforth IM),... T. Khurshchev Singh | May 30, 2008 | IDSA Comments
The India-Pakistan Bonhomie Continues The review of the composite bilateral dialogue process by the Foreign Ministers of India and Pakistan on May 22 at Islamabad was significant in many ways. This was the first... Smruti S. Pattanaik | May 30, 2008 | IDSA Comments
Pakistan’s Peace Deals with Islamic militants: Lull before the Storm The new ANP-led provincial government in NWFP signed a peace deal with the Islamic militants of Tehrik-e-Nifaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi (TNSM) led by Maulana Fazlullah, on May 21, 2008. The deal is the... Alok Bansal | May 28, 2008 | IDSA Comments
The Need to Regulate Pakistan’s Use of Covert Action Ever since the new democratically elected government assumed office in Pakistan, analysts have drawn up exhaustive priority lists of tasks before it. These range from restoring civilian pre-eminence over the... Satinder K. Saini | May 28, 2008 | IDSA Comments
Lessons of Jaipur The Indian reaction to the terrorist attacks in Jaipur has so far been quite predictable. As usual the media has congratulated the citizens of Jaipur for ‘resilience’ and maintaining communal... Alok Rashmi Mukhopadhyay | May 28, 2008 | IDSA Comments
Hu’s Visit to Japan Sino-Japanese relations were in the doldrums for the past decade because of the repeated visits to the Yasukuni Shrine by former Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi. One consequence was a... Gunjan Singh | May 28, 2008 | IDSA Comments
