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  • WikiWrecks: 26/11 and US Intent
    M Shamsur Rabb Khan    ·   08 Dec, 2010    ·    #3291    ·    Commentary    
    The David Headley saga put a big question mark over the  US policy for tackling terror due to the inability of the FBI to inform their Indian counterparts about 26/11. New Delhi learnt the big lesson that it had to deal with Pakistan-sponso...
  • Is China’s Strategic Aggression Ill-Timed?
    Air Cmde Arjun Subramaniam    ·   07 Dec, 2010    ·    #3290    ·    Commentary    
    Within the framework of China’s meteoric rise, analysts across the world have chronicled its recent strategic belligerence without taking a call on whether this aggressiveness is part of a well-thought out ‘coming of age’ strat...
  • Dialogue between Nuclear Weapon States
       ·   06 Dec, 2010    ·    #3289    ·    Commentary    
    In the joint statement issued on the 8th November 2010 at the conclusion of President Obama’s three-day visit to India, the leaders of the two countries expressed “the need for a meaningful dialogue among all states possessing nuclea...
  • WikiWrecks: The US Perspective on Cold Start
    Ali Ahmed    ·   01 Dec, 2010    ·    #3288    ·    Commentary    
    The Guardian, recipient of the second tranche of documents from WikiLeaks, ran the US Ambassador’s take on Cold Start as recorded in cables to the US: “US embassy cables: India ‘unlikely' to deploy Cold Start against Pakist...
  • Naxal-Affected States: Will the Curse of Natural Resources Be Avoided?
    Lucy Dubochet    ·   01 Dec, 2010    ·    #3287    ·    Commentary    
    Will natural resources help stabilize the Naxal-affected states, or will the region fall prey to a curse that traps many countries in a circle of violence and under-development? The Mines and Mineral Development & Regulation Act, which is re...
  • Afghanistan 2014: Symbolic End Date as Strategic Signpost
    Lydia Walker    ·   01 Dec, 2010    ·    #3286    ·    Commentary    
    For Afghanistan, a long-term solution needs a short-term operational strategy for sustenance.  Recently, at Lisbon, NATO insisted and the US conceded to a new date to exit from Afghanistan – 2014. These fluctuating end dates loom over...
  • START or STOP: Is Nuclear Arms Control lost in USA's Domestic Chaos?
    Yogesh Joshi    ·   26 Nov, 2010    ·    #3285    ·    Commentary    
    The trickiest foreign policy issue before the Obama administration after the midterm elections is ratification of the New START (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty). Signed in April this year, after protracted negotiations between the two Cold War ...
  • Obama’s Nuclear Evolution and the Indo-US Nuclear Partnership
    Lydia Walker    ·   18 Nov, 2010    ·    #3284    ·    Commentary    
    Over the past four years, US Senator, now President, Barak Obama’s public policies towards nuclear non-proliferation in general and the Indo-US Nuclear Deal in particular have shifted. How and when did Obama change from a critic of the Dea...
  • “Grading” Counterinsurgency and the Afghanistan Exit Strategy
    Lydia Walker    ·   18 Nov, 2010    ·    #3283    ·    Commentary    
    Since he took office, US President Barack Obama has tripled the number of American troops in Afghanistan. He turned over command to Generals Stanley McChrystal and David Petraeus in succession, generals who advocate a counterinsurgency (COIN) st...
  • Suu Kyi's Release: As the Dust Begins to Settle
    Medha Chaturvedi    ·   18 Nov, 2010    ·    #3282    ·    Commentary    
    The release of Nobel laureate and the symbol of Myanmar's pro-democracy movement, Aung San Suu Kyi on 13 November 2010 saw celebrations not only among pro-democracy groups in Myanmar, but also supporters worldwide. This sudden benevolence on t...
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