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  • After Osama - VI: What will be the al Qaeda’s Game Plan?
    D Suba Chandran    ·   05 May, 2011    ·    #3371    ·    Commentary    
    What will be the game plan of the al Qaeda now? The primary issue is not who will take over the reins of the al Qaeda, now that Osama is dead, but how they will seek to respond. Succession is unlikely to be an issue. There appears a hierarchy...
  • After Osama - V: End the War on Terror?
    D Suba Chandran    ·   05 May, 2011    ·    #3370    ·    Commentary    
    With the primary conspirator behind 9/11 finally killed, almost a decade after the beginning of the US led War on Terror, should the campaign finally come to an end? Has the war really ended? Does the war of terrorism led by the al Qaeda pose no...
  • India’s ‘Moral’ Nuclear Behaviour: Rhetoric or Reality?
    Alankrita Sinha    ·   03 May, 2011    ·    #3369    ·    Commentary    
    India’s nuclear behaviour is often deemed seemingly unpredictable. First there was the case of the ‘Peaceful Nuclear Explosion (PNE)’ in 1974, at a time when Nehruvian idealism still found an esteemed position in the dismissal ...
  • After Osama - IV: What are the Global Implications?
    Siddharth Ramana    ·   03 May, 2011    ·    #3368    ·    Commentary    
    The death of bin Laden holds a significant impact for several states. This article seeks to briefly elucidate on three regions - the US, West Asia and Pakistan. The US was declared public enemy number one by bin Laden, owing to alleged insult...
  • After Osama - III: Is Pakistan’s Army on a Tighter Rope?
    Ali Ahmed    ·   03 May, 2011    ·    #3367    ·    Commentary    
    That a military operation by the US in the vicinity of military barracks has occurred to such effect as elimination of the world’s most wanted terrorist indicates either that the Pakistan Army was caught napping or was on board. If the for...
  • After Osama - II: Full Marks to President Obama?
    Ashok Bhan    ·   03 May, 2011    ·    #3366    ·    Commentary    
    The death of Osama bin Laden in a surgical operation carried out by the US Special Forces will be a subject of discussion among political and security analysts the world over for many weeks to come. However, the events leading to  this succ...
  • After Osama - I: How will this Affect India?
    Radha Vinod Raju    ·   03 May, 2011    ·    #3365    ·    Commentary    
    The US has finally succeeded in neutralizing Osama bin Laden, deep inside Pakistan and not in the badlands of Waziristan on the Af-Pak border. Indian security experts have long maintained that Osama would be found inside Pakistan, and have now b...
  • Pakistan's Strategic Stability
    PR Chari    ·   02 May, 2011    ·    #3364    ·    Commentary    
    No issue causes as much clamour in New Delhi’s seminar circuit as whether Pakistan is a failed or failing State or for that matter a ‘crisis’ State. Pakistan ranks tenth in the list of 177 countries comprising the Failed States...
  • Engaging the Pakistani Military: India’s Gains
    Arun Sahgal    ·   26 Apr, 2011    ·    #3363    ·    Commentary    
    The London Times report on secret parleys between the Indian Prime Minister’s special non-official interlocutor and Gen. Pervez Kayani has created a buzz in New Delhi. It holds immense significance coming in the backdrop of the Prime Minis...
  • The Sense in Networking with Kayani
    Ali Ahmed    ·   25 Apr, 2011    ·    #3362    ·    Commentary    
    The Prime Minister’s Office recently denied the authenticity of a report published in the Times from London, stating that the PM opened ‘secret’ talks with Pakistan’s army chief Gen. Kayani.  The report mentions that c...
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