COMMENTARIES
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India's Nuclear Doctrine
· 27 Aug, 1999 · #254 · Commentary
Nuclear weapons are great equalisers. Nuclear doctrines are great equalisers too. To be a nuclear, doctrinist, one need not know much. Unlike conventional strategy where civilians, need to defer to the experience of military officers, in nuc...
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Rann of Kutch : Pakistan's Ominous Designs
Wg.Cdr. NK Pant (Retd.) · 25 Aug, 1999 · #253 · Commentary
Pakistan
's Atlantique maritime reconnaissance aircraft which is capable of firing anti-ship Exocet missiles, was the second aircraft shot down over
Indian territory
in the last three years, whilst on a covert espionage mission....
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The Nuclear Doctrine
PR Chari · 24 Aug, 1999 · #252 · Commentary
Haste is written all over the document enunciating the BJP's nuclear doctrine. A preamble describes its underlying premises. This is followed by an enunciation of objectives, a general description of the nuclear forces required to establish th...
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Pakistan's Foreign Policy: Predicaments and Perspectives - An Analysis
Dr. Subhash Kapila · 20 Aug, 1999 · #251 · Commentary
Pakistan's foreign policy successes so far resulted from a single point agenda namely, courting the United States and China for strategic gains that would be discomfiting and embarrassing to India strategically. Both the United States and Ch...
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Kargil: An Operational Update upto 18 August 1999
Maj. Gen. Ashok Krishna (Retd) · 20 Aug, 1999 · #250 · Commentary
General
1. Pakistani aggressors still occupy the stray post in Mushkoh; they are being supported by artillery fire. Brazen attacks on Indian military and para military outposts are also on the rise in J&...
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Shooting the Atlantique
D Suba Chandran · 19 Aug, 1999 · #249 · Commentary
An Indian Air Force MiG 21 shot down a Pakistani surveillance aircraft Breguet Atlantique on 10th August, killing all 16
Pakistan
personnel on board, for intruding 10 km into
Indian territory
in the Kori Creek region in
Gujarat...
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Russian Interests in Soth Asia and the Kargil Crisis
KM Pari Valen · 19 Aug, 1999 · #248 · Commentary
Facing a Kargil like situation in its own province, of a Dageston,
Russia
perceives Kargil crisis as an issue that had implications for geo-politics in
South Asia
and its own interests. So it expressed serious concern over th...
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CTBT Review: An Indian way out
Kanchan Lakshman · 19 Aug, 1999 · #247 · Commentary
The Review Conference on the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) is scheduled to take place in September, 1999. This Conference assumes added significance in the context of the nuclear tests conducted by
India
and
Pakistan
[both n...
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Sri Lanka: An Assassination and its Implications
· 19 Aug, 1999 · #246 · Commentary
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IDP's in Sri Lanka
Zarein Ahmed · 17 Aug, 1999 · #245 · Commentary
One of the world’s most acute and growing problems is the increasing number of internally displaced persons (IDPs) or internal refugees. What is more alarming is the fact that the number of IDPs now exceeds that of refugees. In 1990 th...