Editorial Note

2015 is a very special year for the Institute of Defence Studies and Analyses, marking 50 years since it was established on November 11, 1965. Celebrating the landmark, the current issue of Strategic Analysis carries a section on ‘Fifty Years of IDSA and Strategic Thinking in India’. This section comprises reminiscences by authors who either headed the Institute or served as part of its faculty, about the Institute’s role in shaping strategic thinking and contributing to policy planning in the country over five decades. The issue, as a tribute to IDSA, has also collected from its archives some farsighted articles which still have the power to become flashpoints for lively public policy debates.

Strategic Analysis wishes IDSA another 50 years of institutional evolution, of new methodologies and policy applications.