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  • The RMA is Dead: Long Live Big Budgets
    MV Rappai    ·   18 Jul, 2007    ·    #2336    ·    Commentary    
    On 5 July 2007, the United Press International (UPI) carried a commentary titled "The Death of Revolution in Military Affairs" by William S Lind that has become the subject of a hot debate among the world strategic community. One of th...
  • Rehabilitating the Socially Alienated under RSVY
    Saumitra Mohan    ·   18 Jul, 2007    ·    #2335    ·    Commentary    
    A sense of alienation springing from a perceived inequitable developmental process coupled with its active aiding and abetting by certain forces hostile to the interests of this country, saw the rise and sustenance of the Kamtapur Liberat...
  • Russia's Joint Radar Gamble
    Neha Kumar    ·   14 Jul, 2007    ·    #2334    ·    Commentary    
    Russia's opposition to the US ballistic missile defense program has intensified substantially ever since the latter withdrew from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty in December 2001. Therefore, the recent proposal made by Russia at the G...
  • Future Developments: Pakistan 2012
       ·   10 Jul, 2007    ·    #2333    ·    Commentary    
    Report of the Seminar held at the IPCS on 6 July 2007 Speaker: Brig (Retd.) Arun Sahgal, Deputy Director Research and Head Centre for Strategic Studies and Simulation, The United Service Institution of India (USI) Various fac...
  • Economic Blockade: Will the Maoists' New Strategy Succeed?
    Devyani Srivastava    ·   06 Jul, 2007    ·    #2332    ·    Commentary    
    The Communist Party of India (Maoist) called a two-day economic blockade for the second successive year on 26 and 27 June, this time in parts of six states namely Jharkhand, Bihar, Orissa, West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh and Chhattisgarh. Notwithsta...
  • Back-Fire: An Airport Car Bomb Attack
    David Smith    ·   07 Jul, 2007    ·    #2331    ·    Commentary    
    A blazing 4x4 jeep blew up atthe entrance of the United Kingdom's Glasgow international airport terminal after two men attempted to drive the vehicle through the buildings doors. The men after failing to crash through the terminal doorway ig...
  • Space, Power and Politics in Asia
    Scott Shackelford    ·   04 Jul, 2007    ·    #2330    ·    Commentary    
    Space programs are a national source of pride and prestige. At best, they can engender healthy cooperation or competition between countries that push back the frontiers of science, aids strained relations between the great powers, and is a sourc...
  • The Naxal Communique: Mobile War Replaces Guerilla War
    Rajat Kumar Kujur    ·   04 Jul, 2007    ·    #2329    ·    Commentary    
    The newly elected General Secretary of CPI (Maoist), Ganapathy, in a recent interview, declared that the recently concluded Congress of the Party had "decided to take the guerrilla war to a higher level of mobile war in the areas where guer...
  • Pakistan: The Way Ahead
       ·   02 Jul, 2007    ·    #2328    ·    Commentary    
    Report of the Panel Discussion held at the IPCS on 25 June 2007 Chair: Dhirendra Singh, Former Home Secretary Speakers: Amb G Parthasarathy, Former Indian High Commissioner in Pakistan Mr A K Doval, Former Director, Intelligence B...
  • NATO Attacks: Ambiguity in Pakistan's Tribal Belt
    Priyashree Andley    ·   02 Jul, 2007    ·    #2327    ·    Commentary    
    On 22 June 2007, artillery shells and missiles were fired by the ISAF from Afghanistan striking residential compounds and a hotel in Mangrotai in North Waziristan. The attack killed 11 people including women and children and wounded 10 others. T...
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