COMMENTARIES
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The Strategist
The Dilemma of a Threshold
Vice Admiral Vijay Shankar · 01 Aug, 2018 · #5498 · Commentary · Column
The nuclear planner is acutely involved in analysis of when and under what political conditions opposing leadership (military or otherwise) may resort to the employment of nuclear weapons. For nations with a policy of no first use (NFU), the answe...
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Maritime Matters
The Challenges of AI-enabled Underwater Platforms
Vijay Sakhuja · 01 Aug, 2018 · #5497 · Commentary · Column
The Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) is likely to acquire a new type of submarine by the early 2020s. According to the South China Morning Post, the Shenyang Institute of Automation under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) is engage...
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Strategic Space
China and the Shape of the Indo-Pacific
Manpreet Sethi · 18 Jul, 2018 · #5496 · Commentary · Column
It is hardly surprising that China figures prominently in the idea of the Indo-Pacific. In fact, China...
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Maritime Matters
Digital Connectivity in the Andaman & Nicobar Islands
Vijay Sakhuja · 17 Jul, 2018 · #5495 · Commentary · Column
The Indian government has awarded a contract for the installation of a 2,300 km-long optical fiber cable (OFC) across the Bay of Bengal between Chennai in the Indian mainland and Port Blair in the Andaman & Nicobar (A&N) islands. Announced...
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East Asia Compass
Enhancing India-South Korea Relations
Dr Sandip Kumar Mishra · 16 Jul, 2018 · #5494 · Commentary · Column
South Korean President Moon Jae-in visited in India for a four-day trip from 8 to 11 July 2018, and both the countries resolved to add more substance to their partnership. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Moon Jae-in re-emphasised the natur...
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'Advantage Assam': Instrumentalising Development through Tourism
Riddhi Mahanta · 09 Jul, 2018 · #5493 · Commentary
‘Advantage
Assam’, the Assam Global Investor’s Summit held in February 2018, was the
largest ever investment promotion initiative by the government of Assam. It
opened with much fanfare and was covered extensively by the media.
This
c...
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US Sanctions against Iran: What are India's Options?
Ambassador KP Fabian · 06 Jul, 2018 · #5492 · Commentary
The US first imposed various sanctions on Iran in 1979 when the US embassy was occupied, with the staff taken hostage, following the fall of US-supported Shah. Oil sanctions were imposed in 2012 ...
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IPCS Discussion
Vietnam-India Relations: Past, Present, and Future
Discussion Report · 04 Jul, 2018 · #5491 · Commentary
On 6 June 2018, the Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies (IPCS) hosted His Excellency Ton Sinh Thanh, Ambassador of Vietnam to India, who delivered his remarks on 'Vietnam-India Relations: Past, Present, and Future'. The interaction was held un...
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India's NSG Membership and the Human Capital Factor
Abhijit Iyer-Mitra & Tarika Rastogi · 04 Jul, 2018 · #5490 · Commentary
The implications of India’s aspiration to join
the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) has been dissected variously from a strategic
prism, as well as from the industrial. While industrial dissections of the
argument have focused on India's lack of...
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Nuke Street
Iran, North Korea, and Disarmament: Some Questions
Sheel kant Sharma · 03 Jul, 2018 · #5489 · Commentary · Column
These recent weeks have shown extraordinary results in the Korean Peninsula. There is an interesting ring in President Trump announcing that DPRK was ...
