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  • India's Peacekeeping Missions
    N. K. Pant    ·   23 Mar, 2000    ·    #340    ·    Commentary    
    The dawn of the twenty first century is witness to many conflicts being fought around the globe than there were during the cold war period. The nature of conflicts has also become increasingly complex, which demands new approaches to resolve the...
  • Reconaissance Sattelites
    N. K. Pant    ·   12 Mar, 2000    ·    #339    ·    Commentary    
    One of the recommendations of the Subramaniam Committee report on Kargil tabled in Parliament in the last week of February, 2000 is strengthening aerial surveillance capability by the use of satellites. Reconnaissance satellites detect static or m...
  • India: Package for the North East
    Zarein Ahmed    ·   08 Mar, 2000    ·    #338    ·    Commentary    
    The North-East comprises seven states, called the 'seven sisters,' namely, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam , Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland and Tripura. Critically located and sharing a border with Bangladesh , Myanamar, ...
  • International Terrorism and US Policy Options
       ·   02 Mar, 2000    ·    #337    ·    Commentary    
    The threat of terrorism has steadily increased over the last few decades. With advances in technology, terrorist acts have become much more destructive and perpetrators of those act more elusive. Terrorism is defined as "the unlawful use or t...
  • Autonomy Debate in Jammu and Kashmir
       ·   29 Feb, 2000    ·    #336    ·    Commentary    
    The call for autonomy demands dispassionate study to place it in correct perspective. Since April 1999, the Abdullah administration has made the issue part of its Kashmiri political agenda. Farooq had set the autonomy-ball rolling, due to popular ...
  • IAF: Taking Off into Info-Tech Environment
    N. K. Pant    ·   29 Feb, 2000    ·    #335    ·    Commentary    
    The armed forces in the technologically advanced countries are feverishly at work developing appropriate offensive cum defensive IT capabilities and incurring considerable expenditure in this new frontier of knowledge. It is now a foregone conclus...
  • Improvised Explosive Devices - V: IEDs & Land Mine Treaties
    Mallika Joseph    ·   29 Feb, 2000    ·    #334    ·    Commentary    
    Two conventions currently exist that address the use of anti-personnel landmines. They are the Amended Protocol II of the United Nations Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May be Deemed to b...
  • Improvised Explosive Devices - IV: IEDs & Mines
    Mallika Joseph    ·   29 Feb, 2000    ·    #333    ·    Commentary    
    The IED is more close to the mine in its technology, detonation and damage caused than any other device in the family of military ordnance. Despite the ingenuity that goes into its assemblage, most IEDs end up resembling some type of standard mine...
  • Improvised Explosive Devices - III: Types of IEDs & Training
    Mallika Joseph    ·   29 Feb, 2000    ·    #332    ·    Commentary    
    Types of IEDs vary based on the type explosive used, method of assembly, and also the method of detonation. As this is restricted only by human ingenuity, the types of IEDs are infinite.     Types of explosives   ...
  • Improvised Explosive Devices - II: The Targets
    Mallika Joseph    ·   26 Feb, 2000    ·    #331    ·    Commentary    
    For the Non State Actors (NSAs), their main battle is against the State. Therefore any person, institution and building representative of the State becomes the target for IED use. Security forces – military and paramilitary including police ...
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