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  • Attack at Katunayake: Strategic Rights and Political Wrongs
    N Manoharan    ·   02 Aug, 2001    ·    #533    ·    Commentary    
        The daring attack by the LTTE on the Katunayake air base and the Bandaranaike International Airport near Colombo on July 24 entailed an “unprecedented destruction for modern aviation&rd...
  • China, Russia and India: Strategic Triangle or Triangular Co-operation?
    Satyajit Mohanty    ·   30 Jul, 2001    ·    #532    ·    Commentary    
    The idea of a strategic triangle between Russia , China and India was floated by the then Russian Prime Minister Mr. E. Primakov during his visit to New Delhi in December 1998. The Chinese revived this idea before Ji...
  • NMD's Chain Reactions And India
       ·   27 Jul, 2001    ·    #531    ·    Commentary    
    The proposed National Missile Defense  plan of the US has raised apprehensions in  international players who contend that it  will  turn the present global nuclear order upside down;   arms control would field to a re...
  • Fearing a Chinese nuclear attack in Arunachal Pradesh
    Bhartendu Kumar Singh    ·   25 Jul, 2001    ·    #530    ·    Commentary    
    Ever since India went nuclear in 1998, the question has become critical for strategic analysts whether China would use nuclear weapons against India in any future scenario. Opinion on this issue is divided into two categori...
  • Naga-Cease-Fire Extension: Clash of Imagined Homelands
    Bibhu Prasad Routray    ·   25 Jul, 2001    ·    #529    ·    Commentary    
    As the Union government debates over the fall out of a possible backtrack from the June 13 cease-fire extension with the National Socialist Council of Nagaland-Isak-Muivah (NSCN-IM), the Indian Northeast stands on the threshold of a possible phase...
  • Stray Thoughts On The Agra Summit
    PR Chari    ·   23 Jul, 2001    ·    #528    ·    Commentary    
    In his perceptive book “Evolution of the Diplomatic Method” Sir Harold Nicholson offers some useful vignettes on diplomacy in the Greek City States. Ambassadors were chosen for their “known respectability and reputed wisdom&rdquo...
  • A Tale of Two Decisions
    N Manoharan    ·   19 Jul, 2001    ·    #527    ·    Commentary    
    Consciously or unconsciously July has become an eventful month in the history of Sri Lanka . On July 10, 2001, the Sri Lankan President, Chandrika Kumaratunga, prorogued the Parliament till September 7, and announced a referendum to be held ...
  • Facts about Junagadh
    Maj. Gen. Ashok Krishna (Retd)    ·   19 Jul, 2001    ·    #526    ·    Commentary    
    Junagadh was a state on the coast of Saurashtra surrounded by Indian territory , and therefore without any geographical contiguity with Pakistan . See map. Bounded on three sides by states’ which had acceded to Indi...
  • The Equations of Environment Security
    Col. PK Gautam    ·   19 Jul, 2001    ·    #525    ·    Commentary    
    Environment security is closely related to availability of natural resources. Resources are either non-renewable like minerals and hydrocarbons or renewable like forests, water, and agricultural produce. The last 300 years have seen exponential po...
  • Between Fire and the Frying Pan: Reviewing the Naga-Ceasefire
    Bibhu Prasad Routray    ·   13 Jul, 2001    ·    #524    ·    Commentary    
    The Union Government’s decision to review the Naga cease-fire with the National Socialist Council of Nagaland-Isak-Muivah (NSCN-IM) is expected to bring some relief to the aggrieved populace in Manipur. It is a pity that the decision came on...
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