COMMENTARIES
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Pak-Afghan Reset: Will the Taliban and al Qaeda follow?
D Suba Chandran · 11 Dec, 2014 · #4773 · Commentary
Following the visits of Pakistan’s National Security Advisor, Chief of Army Staff and the ISI Chief to Kabul, and then of the new Afghan President Ashraf Ghani to Islamabad – all in space of last two months, there seems to be a posit...
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J&K: Modi Couldn’t do a Vajpayee in SK Stadium
Shujaat Bukhari · 09 Dec, 2014 · #4772 · Commentary
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s public meeting in Srinagar on Monday (December 8) was not a routine election meeting. It was surely a significant one since BJP has never put up a show of strength in the capital city like this. Modi had chos...
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Maritime Silk Route
Decoding China's Silk Diplomacy at Sea
Rajeev Ranjan Chaturvedy · 11 Dec, 2014 · #4771 · Commentary
China has proposed to revive the centuries-old ‘Silk Road of the Sea’ into a 21st century Maritime Silk Road (MSR). The MSR initiative has a clear strategic purpose and is a helpful channel for the Chinese grand strategy. It aims to ...
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Eagle Eye
India-US: Significance of the Second Modi-Obama Meet
Chintamani Mahapatra · 11 Dec, 2014 · #4770 · Commentary · Column
In less than four months, the new Prime Minister of India and US President Barack Obama will meet for their second summit in New Delhi. The first summit was the outcome of Obama’s initiative when he called the newly elected Prime Minister ...
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Why India Needs an Outcome Budget for Defence
Bhartendu Kumar Singh · 10 Dec, 2014 · #4769 · Commentary
Outcome budgets have emerged as the toast in the financial administration under the Union Government, as made evident recently in the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s interactive session with the secretaries to the Government of India...
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EU-India: Modi and Expectations of Change
Tuva Julie Engebrethsen Smith · 10 Dec, 2014 · #4768 · Commentary
The EU-India bilateral partnership dates back to the 1960s, but it was at the 5th India-EU Summit at The Hague in 2004, that the relationship was upgraded to a ‘Strategic Partnership’, further enhancing ties. It is a relationship bui...
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India-Bangladesh LBA: Setting the Right Tone
Saumitra Mohan · 09 Dec, 2014 · #4767 · Commentary
“We can change history but not geography,” India’s former Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee had famously said. But this basic common sense has often eluded the movers and shakers of international politics, thereby resulting i...
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The Strategist
Maritime Combat Power in the Indo-Pacific
Vijay Shankar · 08 Dec, 2014 · #4766 · Commentary · Column
Instantaneous Intimidation
Both Julian Corbett and Admiral of the Fleet Sergei Goroshkov had an astute perspective of the importance of a theory for the application of Combat Power. Theory, as Julian Corbett put it, “…be regard...
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Dateline Colombo
Sri Lanka: Making a Case for Change
Asanga Abeyagoonasekera · 03 Dec, 2014 · #4765 · Commentary · Column
The final month of the year 2014 began with the news of Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak. He was found not guilty of the massacre of civilians who protested for his overthrow in the 2011 Arab Spring. Society’s expectation for a total change...
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Maritime Matters
India and Maritime Security: Do More
Vijay Sakhuja · 01 Dec, 2014 · #4764 · Commentary · Column
Six years ago, in November 2008, a group of Pakistan-based terrorists landed at unsecured waterfronts in Mumbai, the financial capital of India, and attacked public places such as hotels, restaurants, and a railway station. Although the Indian s...
