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  • The US National Missile Defence and South Asia
    Arpit Rajain    ·   30 Jul, 2000    ·    #395    ·    Commentary    
    As the Clinton Administration plans to field a National Missile Defence, the debate has focussed primarily on these criteria- ·                &nb...
  • Evolving a theoretical perspective on Human Security
       ·   30 Jul, 2000    ·    #394    ·    Commentary    
    Speakers: Muchkund Dubey     Suranjan Das      P R Chari     Muchkund Dubey     Mr. Dubey emphasised that human security consolidates state...
  • The Future of Pakistan
       ·   22 Jul, 2000    ·    #393    ·    Commentary    
    Speaker: Vivek Katju     Joint Secretary (Pak) MEA     In his initial statement the speaker noted that present-day Pakistan was far removed from the vision of Mohamed Ali Jinnah who had visuali...
  • KRC: Government’s Sucess, but Intelligence Failure!
    S. Ramkumar    ·   22 Jul, 2000    ·    #392    ·    Commentary    
     The Kargil Review Committee(KRC) report attracted a lot of critical attention; it was severely blamed for not pinpointing the dramatis personae at the bureaucratic and political levels responsible for the failure of intelligence. It also a...
  • The Future of Nuclear Arms Control
       ·   22 Jul, 2000    ·    #391    ·    Commentary    
    Speaker: Rakesh Sood     JS, DISA Division, Ministry of External Affairs     Mr Sood noticed that the subject of the seminar was speculative; it was necessary to look at the past to gaze into the futu...
  • Emergence of Islamic Fundamentalism in South East Asia
    Dr. Subhash Kapila    ·   22 Jul, 2000    ·    #390    ·    Commentary    
    South East Asia is a region of great strategic importance. The region is critical as it houses the Straits of Malacca, Lombok and Sunda through which navies of the major nations transit between the Indian and Pacific Oc...
  • Sino-Indian Relations: Avoid Putting the Gloss
    Dr. Subhash Kapila    ·   22 Jul, 2000    ·    #389    ·    Commentary    
    Reminiscent of the Nehruvian era, India has once again revived the inadvisable policy of putting a gloss on Sino-Indian relations.  The results of that  disastrous policy were:     ·  &nbs...
  • Defence R&D: Mirages on Horizon
    Wg.Cdr. NK Pant (Retd.)    ·   19 Jul, 2000    ·    #388    ·    Commentary    
    The DRDO is mandated to progressively enhance self reliance in defence supplies by design and development of high-tech weapons in accordance with the QRs laid down by the armed forces. But, despite large annual budgets of over Rs3000 crores, six p...
  • Line of Control as Prospective International Border
    Wg.Cdr. NK Pant (Retd.)    ·   13 Jul, 2000    ·    #387    ·    Commentary    
    Even after instigating the proxy war in Jammu and Kashmir for more than ten years, the Pakistani military establishment’s dream of bleeding the Indian security forces white has not been realised. Their resolute fighting compelled ...
  • Surfing for Intelligence
    Maj. Gen. Yashwant Deva (Retd)    ·   04 Jul, 2000    ·    #386    ·    Commentary    
    In less than half a decade, politico-military intelligence will become commercially available on the Internet. It will be downloadable and delivered fully secure, and should the consumer so desire, customised. This is not a fanciful prediction, bu...
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