COMMENTARIES
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Combating Insurgency: Need to Dry-up the War Chests
Bibhu Prasad Routray · 26 Apr, 2002 · #738 · Commentary
A viable strategy to fight insurgency in the Northeast would be to stop their extortion activities. This tactic, though repeatedly highlighted by experts, has not been achieved. At times the collection process has lessened, but it has never stoppe...
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Flushing out Indian Insurgents from Bhutan: The Stumbling Blocks
SY Surendra Kumar · 26 Apr, 2002 · #737 · Commentary
Militant groups operating in the Northeastern states of
India
constitute a major security threat to
Bhutan
. Of the many militant organizations here, three groups " United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA), National Democratic Fr...
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Peace Process in Sri Lanka – III Black and White of a Red
N Manoharan · 23 Apr, 2002 · #736 · Commentary
Communitarian or communal? Revolutionary or Reactionary? These questions arise when one analyses the Janatha Vimukthi Permuna’s (JVP) stand on the ethnic issue.
It called the MoU signed between the Sri Lanka...
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India and China: Cutting the Gordian Knot
Brig. SS Chandel · 23 Apr, 2002 · #735 · Commentary
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The Politics of Peace: LTTE Style
· 23 Apr, 2002 · #734 · Commentary
The proclamation of ceasefire followed by signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the Government of Sri Lanka and the LTTE has led to removal of security restrictions and free mobility between the North and East with the rest of the...
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Periphery Complex and National Security
· 23 Apr, 2002 · #733 · Commentary
The state of unrest in the Northeastern states of
India
can be viewed as the outcome of a periphery complex, by which is meant the feeling of not quite belonging to the State/Nation one finds oneself or one’s community to be living i...
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Nepalese Premier’s India Visit: Quid Pro Quo measures?
Kanchan Lakshman · 12 Apr, 2002 · #732 · Commentary
The main point on the Nepalese Premier Sher Bahadur Deuba’s agenda during his six-day visit to
India
in March 2002 was to secure the Indian government’s support in combating the Maoist insurgency in his country. There has been ...
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Is Pakistan Really Ready For Peace With India?
AK Verma · 12 Apr, 2002 · #731 · Commentary
Is peace between India and Pakistan at all possible in a presently foreseeable time frame? Evidence suggests that the Pakistan establishment, on balance, has ruled out peace. A strong conviction pervades in its military that peace enforced throu...
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Sino-Pakistan Maritime Initiatives
Vijay Sakhuja · 10 Apr, 2002 · #730 · Commentary
In yet another move to consolidate their “all weather friendship”, President Pervez Musharraf and the visiting Chinese Vice-Premier Wu Bangguo laid the foundation stone of a deep-sea port at Gwadar on March 22, 2002. The first phase of...
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What after the Deployment?
Brig. SS Chandel · 10 Apr, 2002 · #729 · Commentary
Three months ago when the Government of India took the decision to deploy its armed forces after much saber-rattling and many bellicose statements, one was left wondering whether it had a grand plan like the Schlieffen - Manstein plan of Germany e...
