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  • Iran, Islam and Nuclear Weapons: Engage Teheran instead of Isolating
    D Suba Chandran.    ·   30 Apr, 2013    ·    #3908    ·    Commentary    
    Though there has been a plethora of books and commentaries on Pakistan, despite its strategic importance to India, Iran has never received the attention it deserves in New Delhi and the rest of country. In this background, the recently published book ...
  • Book Review: Contextualising Iran
    Manpreet Sethi.    ·   30 Apr, 2013    ·    #3906    ·    Commentary    
    Troubling Tehran - Reflections on Geopolitics Arun Vishwanathan and Rajaram Nagappa (Eds.) New Delhi: Pentagon Press, 2013 Pp: 139, Rs 895/- For little more than a decade now, the international community has been struggling to resolve the iss ...
  • Carnegie Nuclear Policy Conference 2013: Deterrence and Disarmament
    PR Chari.    ·   28 Apr, 2013    ·    #3897    ·    Commentary    
    Prague 2.0 is an evocative agenda item in which to situate the global issues arising from nuclear weapons, and embedded in arresting their proliferation and eliminating them, while ensuring conflict avoidance and prevention. Consequently, a plenary ...
  • Special Commentary: Carnegie 2013 Nuclear Policy Conference
    Arun Vishwanathan.    ·   23 Apr, 2013    ·    #3891    ·    Commentary    
    In the midst of the ‘proliferation’ of cherry blossoms in Washington DC, the 2013 Carnegie International Nuclear Policy Conference was held at the Ronald Reagan Building on April 8 and 9, 2013. The fifteenth annual international nuclear ...
  • P-3C vs. P-8I: India, Pakistan and the Naval Balance
    Vijay Sakhuja.    ·   21 Apr, 2013    ·    #3889    ·    Commentary    
    Naval aviation is an important part of the naval strategy of India and Pakistan. The Pakistan navy took the lead in the sub-continent in terms of introducing the Atlantique long-range maritime reconnaissance aircraft and Sea King helicopters fitted ...
  • The North Korean Crisis: Musudan Missile Test a Potential Face-Saver for Kim Jong-un?
    Aakriti Bhutoria.    ·   18 Apr, 2013    ·    #3885    ·    Commentary    
    As the world continues to grapple to find ways of responding to North Korea’s threat-mongering, the DPRK is fast losing out on credible provocations short of an apocalypse. Already seen as ‘a boy who cried wolf’, North Korea is be ...
  • India, Pakistan and the Nuclear Race: No Clear Winners
    D Suba Chandran.    ·   17 Apr, 2013    ·    #3882    ·    Commentary    
    The IPCS debate by PR Chari and Adm Vijay Shankar, in response to Michael Krepon’s commentary, analyses the various facets of the nuclear race in South Asia. Krepon’s primary focus revolves around two issues - highlighting the nuclear r ...
  • Special Commentary: India’s Missile Defence
    Amit Gupta.    ·   12 Apr, 2013    ·    #3880    ·    Commentary    
    India has tested a two-tier missile defence shield and is getting ready to place it around its two major cities, Delhi and Mumbai. There are three issues that emerge from the deployment of this capability: will it work effectively; how will it alte ...
  • Book Review: Assessing Asian Military Strategies
    Rishika Chauhan.    ·   25 Mar, 2013    ·    #3853    ·    Commentary    
    Clashing Titans: Military Strategy and Insecurity Among Asian Great Powers Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan Knowledge World Publishers, New Delhi, 2012 With the emergence of Asia as the referent point of varied strategies and policies the world ov ...
  • China: How bad does the Japan-US alliance look?
    Rana Divyank Chaudhary.    ·   20 Mar, 2013    ·    #3849    ·    Commentary    
    The situation in the Asia-Pacific is precarious. Japan and China are neither willing to back down from a peaking military build-up nor a worsening diplomatic standoff. Though going to war might seem unlikely, China is apprehensive about a reinforce ...
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