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  • The Impact of Afghan Developments in the Asia Pacific
    Dr. Subhash Kapila    ·   15 Dec, 2001    ·    #663    ·    Commentary    
    The Asia Pacific?s political landscape has changed significantly after the Islamic Jehadi terrorist bombings in US on September 11, 2001, and the subsequent American military operations in Afghanistan .?   ? This region, ...
  • Pakistan: A Nation at the Crossroads
    Amit Jain    ·   15 Dec, 2001    ·    #662    ·    Commentary    
    No one feels the sense of loss that Pakistan is suffering today.     There is an eerie silence on the streets of Karachi . The large and violent rallies in several parts of the country have disappeared. It is...
  • The Hidden Energy Security
    Col. PK Gautam    ·   15 Dec, 2001    ·    #661    ·    Commentary    
    Energy is a key national security concern for all nations. Primary energy has two components, i.e. generation of electricity for industry, agriculture and the domestic sector, and fuel for the transport sector, feed stock for industrial products l...
  • How FAEs Work
       ·   11 Dec, 2001    ·    #660    ·    Commentary    
    A typical fuel air explosive device consists of a container of fuel and two separate explosive charges. After the munition is dropped or fired, the first explosive charge bursts open the container at a predetermined height and disperses the fuel i...
  • N-Weapons against Afghanistan
    PR Chari    ·   10 Dec, 2001    ·    #659    ·    Commentary    
    US Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, is reported [Hindustan Times, 30 October 2001] to have said, “The 5000-pound bombs are going to be able to do the job of hitting the Al-Qaeda in their underground facilities.” But when pre...
  • Indo-US Military Alliance: Our Independence Could be Bartered Away
       ·   10 Dec, 2001    ·    #658    ·    Commentary    
    Jawaharlal Nehru kept India out of military alliances with his sagacious and principled foreign policy. That mantra still holds good. Many Cold War allies of the United States – Egypt , Indonesia , Saudi Ara...
  • Iraq Next?
    Prof. RVR Chandrasekhara Rao    ·   10 Dec, 2001    ·    #657    ·    Commentary    
    President Bush’s demand that Iraq open its research establishments to UN inspection was expected, even if a little late in being made.  The Bush administration has a visceral interest in bringing Iraq to its knees again,...
  • Sri Lankan Parliamentary Elections-2001 - II Poll Promises and Peace: A Critique
    N Manoharan    ·   10 Dec, 2001    ·    #656    ·    Commentary    
    The present analysis is based on the latest party manifestoes, statements, and speeches of the party leadership on the eve of the upcoming parliamentary elections. The following four parties/alliances have been chosen, since they would be playing ...
  • Rebuilding the Civil Society in Kashmir: Role of the NGOs
       ·   10 Dec, 2001    ·    #655    ·    Commentary    
    The compelling force behind the conflict in Kashmir comes from the incompatible ideologies driving Indian and Pakistani nationalism and their incompatibility with the separatist aspirations of some people in Jammu and Kashmir . Afte...
  • TES: The Indian “Third Eye” in the Sky
    Lt Col AK Sharma    ·   10 Dec, 2001    ·    #654    ·    Commentary    
    The Kargil Report critique pertaining to poor surveillance of the Line of Control (LoC) has accelerated the Indian effort at surveillance from outer space. This is evident from placing the Technology Experimental Satellite (TES) into a sun-synchro...
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