Military Innovation: Hurdles, Bumps and Jumps Military innovation is peculiar and distinctive, and has no direct parallels. The military environment itself, with focus on hierachy, discipline and tradition makes innovation a daunting challenge. The process is... Girish Luthar | October 2003 | Strategic Analysis
From Central to Peripheral: The United Nations and the Recent Iraq Crisis The United Nations was founded on the principles of sovereign equality of its member states. The sovereignty exercised by states in their domestic jurisdiction and external relations was to be... Tasneem Meenai | October 2003 | Strategic Analysis
Ballistic Missile Defence: Likely Meaningful Completion or Irrational Indulgence? The demand for an infallible missile and homeland defence against anticipatory threats from adversarial state actors as well as amorphous non-state actors has become accentuated in the US in the... P. K. Ghosh | October 2003 | Strategic Analysis
3rd India-Central Asia Regional Conference The 3rd India-Central Asia Regional Conference was jointly organised by the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA), New Delhi and the Institute for Strategic and Regional Studies (ISRS) at... Ramakant Dwivedi | October 2003 | Strategic Analysis
Kaliningrad: Russian Enclave Within the European Union Nivedita Das Kundu | October 2003 | Strategic Analysis
Prem Shankar Jha, The End of Saddam Hussein, History Through the Eyes of the Victims Events in Iraq in the last decade, especially the invasion of Iraq by the United States and its allies (the so-called Coalition of the Willing) in 2003, have shaken the... S. K. Bhutani | October 2003 | Strategic Analysis
Understanding the Globalisation Mind Game This paper is an attempt to understand the enigma that is globalisation. The paper relies on the global capitalism approach, which locates the dominant global forces in the structure of... Atul Bharadwaj | July 2003 | Strategic Analysis
The 1962 India-China War and Kargil 1999: Restrictions on the Use of Air Power The paper examines the utilisation of air power in the 1962 India-China war and in the 1999 Kargil conflict. The study reveals a certain continuity in the attitudes to the... R. Sukumaran | July 2003 | Strategic Analysis
Conceptualising Uyghur Separatism in Chinese Nationalism The origins of Chinese nationalism are traceable to the post-Cold War era which saw the gradual erosion of Communist ideology and the Chinese government’s use of nationalism to shore up... Abanti Bhattacharya | July 2003 | Strategic Analysis
Terrorists’ Modus Operandi in Jammu and Kashmir Terrorism in the state of Jammu and Kashmir has completed almost 15 years. It marked its arrival with blasts in Srinagar city in 1988 and subsequently expanded to other parts... N. S. Jamwal | July 2003 | Strategic Analysis
