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  • Moving Beyond Realism
    Firdaus Ahmed   ·   05 Aug, 2002    ·    #813    ·    Commentary    
         The Indo-Pak standoff has its roots in realist logic pervading both their security establishments. This is understandable given that realism came to dominate the Cold War years, into which both states were born and nurtured ...
  • The Need to Revisit Conventional Doctrine
    Firdaus Ahmed   ·   11 Aug, 2002    ·    #816    ·    Commentary    
         Nuclear Risk Reduction Measures have rightly attracted considerable attention, energized by the standoff between the two South Asian nuclear powers. While technical means to emplace them have been the preoccupation, these p ...
  • ‘Terrorism’ and Intellectual Responsibility
    Firdaus Ahmed   ·   05 Aug, 2002    ·    #820    ·    Commentary    
         The conceptual contestation over ‘terrorism’, as a term in the strategist’s glossary, has been furious. There is little argument over what constitutes terrorism, but it is widely accepted as being the use ...
  • A Smoke Screen Called Limited War
    Firdaus Ahmed   ·   15 Aug, 2002    ·    #832    ·    Commentary    
         The discussion in Indian strategic circles on Limited War in the subcontinental context has served strategic ends rather than expanding conflict theory. The Kargil episode and the Pakistani threat of ‘many more Kargil ...
  • Indian Peacekeeping in Iraq?
    Firdaus Ahmed   ·   16 Jun, 2003    ·    #1053    ·    Commentary    
    That a trial balloon could be floated on whether India should send its troops to Iraq for peacekeeping to replace the hard pressed soldiers of the Coalition of the Willing is indicative of the changed thinking in India’s Establishment. Politi ...
  • The Post-Parakram Peace Agenda
    Firdaus Ahmed   ·   22 Aug, 2003    ·    #1104    ·    Commentary    
    Pakistan has not released any document purporting to be its nuclear doctrine. However, it has over the years identified the contours of this doctrine. It has not accepted ‘no first use’; it is hence assumed that it countenances ‘f ...
  • Widening the Discourse on Terror
    Firdaus Ahmed   ·   20 Sep, 2003    ·    #1154    ·    Commentary    
    Concentration on violence and its distressing outcome deflects reflection from terrorism in its wider dimension. There is also a perspective that seeking the ‘roots’ of terrorism only rationalizes it, and indirectly legitimises the pern ...
  • Missiles and Crisis Stability
    Firdaus Ahmed   ·   23 Oct, 2003    ·    #1190    ·    Commentary    
    India and Pakistan do not fight wars; they indulge in periodic crisis, testifying, in the eyes of their security establishments, to the robustness of their respective conventional and nuclear deterrents. The time between crises is spent in crisis m ...
  • The Police and the Example of the Armed Forces
    Firdaus Ahmed   ·   10 Nov, 2003    ·    #1203    ·    Commentary    
    Two recent instances of Police partisanship reveal the politicization of India’s police forces. The acquittal by the Delhi High Court of SAR Geelani from life sentence awarded by a fast track lower court, based on trumped up charges after inc ...
  • The Price of Misgovernance
    Firdaus Ahmed   ·   31 Dec, 2003    ·    #1261    ·    Commentary    
    The young state of Chhatisgarh witnessed two ‘sting’ operations recently revealing the rot in its politics. In the first, a prospective Chief Ministerial candidate was selling mining rights for a consideration. While corruption was righ ...