NATO’s Bucharest Summit At the NATO Summit in Bucharest, Ukraine and Georgia’s loss became Russia’s overall gain. Ukraine and Georgia wanted to get the invitation for the pre-membership programme in NATO, which is... Nivedita Das Kundu | May 28, 2008 | IDSA Comments
Increasing Violence in the Assam Hills The hill district of Assam, North Cachar Hills (N.C. Hills), has been recently in the news all too often but for the wrong reasons. Known for its pristine mountainous landscape... Namrata Goswami | May 26, 2008 | IDSA Comments
China and Maoist Nepal: Challenges for India “[China] feels that the Himalayas alone in this nuclear age are not enough to guarantee its national security, especially in view of Tibet’s strategic location. [It], therefore, ideally wants a... Abanti Bhattacharya | May 23, 2008 | IDSA Comments
The Strategic Dimension of Iran’s Leap into Space In February 2007, Iran launched its first sub-orbital rocket that reached an altitude of 150 kms before falling back to Earth and deploying a parachute for recovery.1 Iran claimed that... Harsh V. Pant , G. Bharath | Summer 2008 | Journal of Defence Studies
India’s Affordable Defence Spending Defence expenditure is an important component of national security and every country allocates a significant portion of its resources for this purpose. However, given the scarcity of resources and the... Laxman Kumar Behera | Summer 2008 | Journal of Defence Studies
Renewed Infiltration in Jammu and Kashmir and the Indian Response In a turnaround of events, the recent encounter with terrorists in Samba area and the reported infiltration of a large group of terrorists through the international border (IB) of Jammu... B. S. Sachar | May 16, 2008 | IDSA Comments
India-Brazil-South Africa ‘Tango’ at Sea The first half of May 2008 (2-16) witnessed an epochal multilateral event that passed off virtually unnoticed in the countries involved. It saw the first ever combined maritime exercise among... Gurpreet S Khurana | May 16, 2008 | IDSA Comments
Stalemate Redux in Sri Lanka? A fierce battle in the North and the reported high casualties among Sri Lankan troops at Forward Defence in Muhamalai in the third week of April have placed a question... M. Mayilvaganan | May 16, 2008 | IDSA Comments
Geophysical Threats and ENMOD The term “environment” has come to be used in security discourse at three levels. At the first level is the issue of the degradation of the natural resource base, exhaustion... P. K. Gautam | May 16, 2008 | IDSA Comments
National Governance and Internal Security There is always a crucial link between “National Governance” and “Internal Security”. If Internal Security is not maintained Governance cannot be delivered and there would be grave threats to the... N.N. Vohra | Summer 2008 | Journal of Defence Studies
