COMMENTARIES
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IPCS Debate
India, Pakistan and Tactical Nuclear Weapons: Irrelevance for South Asia
Amit Gupta · 06 Jan, 2014 · #4239 · Commentary
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 analysts used ...
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Af-Pak Diary
Pakistan: Talks about Talks with the Taliban, Again
D Suba Chandran · 06 Jan, 2014 · #4238 · Commentary · Column
Talks about talks with the TTP seem to have become seasonal in Pakistan. There is another effort, this time to initiate a new round of talks with the Pakistani Taliban, now under the leadership of Mullah Fazlullah. This time, not only is Fazlull...
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Maritime Matters
Iran Navy: Developing Long Sea Legs
Vijay Sakhuja · 06 Jan, 2014 · #4237 · Commentary · Column
Iran’s suspected nuclear weapon programme, the associated economic sanctions, hardliner Iranian lawmakers’ demand for uranium enrichment, and the inconclusive Geneva talks to urge Tehran to roll back its nuclear programme has attract...
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Himalayan Frontier
Nepal: The Crisis over Proportional Representation and the RPP Divide
Pramod Jaiswal · 06 Jan, 2014 · #4236 · Commentary · Column
Last year (2013) was lucky for the Rastriya Prajatantra Party-Nepal (RPP-N) led by Kamal Thapa as they emerged as the fourth largest party in the second Constituent Assembly (CA-II). But in 2014, the party seems to be sailing through rough...
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East Asia Compass
China, Japan, Korea and the US: Region at Crossroads
Dr Sandip Kumar Mishra · 06 Jan, 2014 · #4235 · Commentary · Column
Japanese Prime Minister Shinjo Abe visited Yasukuni shrine on 26 December last year and the visit invited usual condemnations from China and South Korea. The US also reacted by saying it ‘disappointing’ and would lead to ‘exace...
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Japan: Revised Defence Posture
Shamshad A Khan · 02 Jan, 2014 · #4234 · Commentary
The Japanese government led by nationalist Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has scrapped the previous government’s National Defense Programme Guidelines (NDPG) and has adopted new defence guidelines that outline Japan’s defence and security...
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India: Security and Strategic Challenges in 2014
C Uday Bhaskar · 02 Jan, 2014 · #4233 · Commentary
The twin terrorist attacks in the Russian city of Volgograd that have killed more than 30 innocent people and grievously injured scores of others on two successive days (29 and 30 December 2013) which are suspected to be the handiwork of an Isla...
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Special Commentary
Indian Air Force: Is it an Expeditionary Force?
Gp Capt (Retd) PI Muralidharan · 02 Jan, 2014 · #4232 · Commentary
Reporting on the recent assumption of office by the new Chief of the Indian Air Force, The Times of India on 31 December 2013 carried a piece by Rajat Pandit stating that the new Chief would have to focus on faster induction of plann...
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Japan’s New National Security Strategy: India Factor
Shamshad A Khan · 02 Jan, 2014 · #4231 · Commentary
Japan, in its new strategic doctrines for the next decade, has identified India among the countries that are ‘primary drivers’ of change in the global ‘balance of power’. The two strategic documents (National Security Str...
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Thailand: Challenges to Democracy?
Aparupa Bhattacherjee · 31 Dec, 2013 · #4230 · Commentary
The ongoing anti-government protests in Bangkok seem to threatening the democratic establishment of the country. The protests which started in November 2013 are being led by Suthep Thaugsuban, the former deputy Prime Minister of Thailand before ...
