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  • India's Thermonuclear Test: Bombed?
    Ali Ahmed    ·   29 Aug, 2009    ·    #2959    ·    Commentary    
    A controversy has erupted over the Pokhran II tests with a former DRDO scientist and Director General of the prestigious IDSA, Dr K Santhanam, observing that the thermonuclear test was a ‘fizzle’. The timing of the controversy is of ...
  • Establishing an Indian Space Command
    Radhakrishna Rao    ·   27 Aug, 2009    ·    #2958    ·    Commentary    
    The once tranquil expanse of outer space is slowly but inexorably emerging as the fourth dimension of the ancient business of warfare. Taking into account the evolving dynamics of the future battlefield scenario, USA, Russia and China are all ke...
  • Beyond the Chinese fantasy: Will India Disintegrate?
    Bhartendu Kumar Singh    ·   25 Aug, 2009    ·    #2957    ·    Commentary    
    The recent proposition by a Chinese strategist that China should facilitate ‘the disintegration of India’ into some 30 smaller states, so as to decimate all challenges to its supremacy and establish a pax-Sinica in the Asia-Pacific r...
  • The India-ASEAN FTA: An assessment
    Tuli Sinha    ·   24 Aug, 2009    ·    #2956    ·    Commentary    
    The Union Minister of Commerce and Industry for India, Anand Sharma signed the much-delayed India-ASEAN Free Trade Agreement (FTA) in Thailand on 13 August 2009. As part of the Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement (CECA), the FTA will in...
  • Should Pakistan sign the CTBT?
    Rabia Akhtar    ·   24 Aug, 2009    ·    #2955    ·    Commentary    
    After South Asian nuclearization in 1998, the P-5 and the international community strongly condemned nuclear testing by both India and Pakistan and urged both states to immediately sign the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT). In an initial rea...
  • Review of Chief Ministers' Conference on Naxalism
    Devyani Srivastava    ·   21 Aug, 2009    ·    #2954    ·    Commentary    
    The recently concluded conference of chief ministers on internal security, the second this year, followed by a meeting among the seven Naxal-affected states (Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Bihar, Orissa, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and West Bengal), c...
  • Afghan Presidential election and its ramifications
    Uddipan Mukherjee    ·   21 Aug, 2009    ·    #2953    ·    Commentary    
    Democratization may not be a smooth process in the war ravaged topography of Afghanistan, but it is definitely being pursued in right earnest. After 2004, on August 20, 2009 the Afghans once again plunged into the electoral process. Despite thre...
  • Will Myanmar Follow North Korea?
    Gunjan Singh    ·   19 Aug, 2009    ·    #2952    ·    Commentary    
    Nuclear proliferation has once again become the buzz word in international politics. After developments in North Korea, there are reports suggesting that Myanmar might follow suit. There are a number of reasons for these speculations. The...
  • Changing Contours: US Policy towards Myanmar
    Sanjay Pulipaka    ·   18 Aug, 2009    ·    #2951    ·    Commentary    
    The current Obama administration seems to be keen on changing the United States (US) policy towards Myanmar. Over the years, the US has been demanding the establishment of a democratic political system in Myanmar and to achieve this objective it h...
  • Fighting the Taliban in Pakistan
    Chiranjib Haldar    ·   17 Aug, 2009    ·    #2950    ·    Commentary    
    Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari’s announcements on the nation’s 63rd Independence day were undoubtedly path-breaking and if implemented could march the country into the modern comity of nations. Political, judicial and administra...
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