IPCS Debate
Various Authors
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India, Pakistan and Tactical Nuclear Weapons: Irrelevance for South Asia
Amit Gupta · 06 Jan, 2014 · 4239
Tactical nuclear weapons (TNW) have little utility in the South Asian context since neither India nor Pakistan’s nuclear doctrines are based on those of the Cold War superpowers, the US and the Soviet Union. American nuclear analyst ...
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China and Air Defence Identification Zone (ADIZ): Political Objectives and International Responses
Teshu Singh · 26 Dec, 2013 · 4223
Two related developments; the declaration of ADIZ and the confrontation of a US navy guided missile cruiser Cowpen with a Chinese ship on 5 December 2013 has brought attention to the security architecture in the Asia Pacific. It is worth ...
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China and Air Defence Identification Zone (ADIZ): At Variance with the Principle of Adherence
Vice Admiral Vijay Shankar · 26 Dec, 2013 · 4222
Why did China establish its East China Sea ADIZ? Despite the knowledge that the central three criteria were breached, it covered the disputed Islands of Senkaku/Diaoyu; the Zone solicited information even if the foreign aircraft had no in ...
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China and Air Defence Identification Zone (ADIZ): Assertive Unilateralism?
Angana Guha Roy · 10 Dec, 2013 · 4214
A day after China launched its first Stealth Drone ‘Lijan’, it also announced its Air Defence Identification Zone (ADIZ) in East China Sea, overlapping with the existing ADIZ by Japan and South Korea. Does this demonstrate Chi ...
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China and Air Defence Identification Zone (ADIZ): Cold Confrontation with the US?
Chintamani Mahapatra · 10 Dec, 2013 · 4213
In recent years, Asia-Pacific region has caught global attention more for periodic political upheavals than for its economic dynamism. Most of the political turmoil, significantly, has been caused by the fastest growing economy—the ...
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India-Pakistan and Tactical Nuclear Weapons: Implications of Hatf-9
Beenish Altaf · 12 Nov, 2013 · 4173
The Nasr missile, with its enhanced capability, was successfully test-fired on 05 November 2013. A short range surface-to-surface ballistic missile (SRBM), also called Hatf IX, it has a range of 60 km. The test fire was conducted with suc ...
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India-Pakistan and Tactical Nuclear Weapons: Implications of Hatf-9
Gurmeet Kanwal · 11 Nov, 2013 · 4169
On 05 November 2013, Pakistan’s Strategic Forces Command once again tested the 60-km range Hatf-9 (Nasr) short-range ballistic missile (SRBM). Salvoes of four missiles were fired from multi-tube launchers. According to the ISPR, the ...
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Horsemen of Change: Politics, Economics, Technology and Security
Vice Admiral Vijay Shankar · 10 Oct, 2013 · 4136
In his discourse at the Prem Bhatia Memorial lecture on 11 August 2013, Mr Shyam Saran, a former Foreign Secretary and current chairman of the National Security Advisory Board, noted with some precision that the transformed landscape that ...
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India, Nuclear Weapons and ‘Massive Retaliation’: The Impossibility of Limitation?
Ali Ahmed · 08 Oct, 2013 · 4135
Shyam Saran speaking in his personal capacity, rather than as the current head of the National Security Advisory Board, relies on his association with the evolution of India’s nuclear doctrine to make the case that India would do we ...
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Technological Change and Security: Implications for India
PR Chari · 01 Oct, 2013 · 4130
That technological change is value neutral and can lead to either greater security or insecurity is well known. But the linkage of technological change to a 'cultural time lag' is seldom identified, which is the period required fo ...
