Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Mon, 03/11/2013 - 05:27
Paper No. 5421 Dated 11-Mar-2013
By A. K. Verma
(This is a summary of a presentation made by the author at the Institute of Defence Studies, Delhi on 8th of March, 2013.)
I must compliment the Institute of Defence Studies and Analysis for this exercise. It displays a recognition that intelligence analysis plays a vital role in identifying strategic interests and suggesting options to deal with them.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Tue, 03/05/2013 - 13:49
Paper No.5416 Dated 5-Mar-2013
By Dr Subhash Kapila
Bangladesh today is at critical crossroads in its national history where under the able and visionary leadership of the present Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is surging towards a radical transformation of purging Bangladesh of Islamist bigotry and fundamentalism from its political dynamics.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Tue, 02/26/2013 - 10:30
Paper No. 5409 Dated 26-Feb-2013
By Dr. Subhash Kapila
The projected drawback of United States and NATO Forces in 2014 has once again rekindled Pakistan Army’s imperial pretensions over Afghanistan. Post-2014 scenarios being discussed in the strategic community paint dismal scenarios of Afghanistan re-emerging as a global and regional hotspot with destabilising spill-over effects all around.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Fri, 02/22/2013 - 09:29
Paper No. 5405 Dated 22-Feb-2013
By A. K. Verma
Why do people in India love to despise the police? The seeds of the mystery are buried in the deep history of the British Raj, so deep that the modern narrative on the subject hardly ever brings it under scrutiny.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Tue, 02/19/2013 - 09:26
Paper No. 5401 Dated 19-Feb-2013
By Dr Subhash Kapila
Introductory Observations
India’s war preparedness against The China Threat and The Pakistan Threat is getting hit on two major counts. The de-emphasising of these two major threats by India’s policy establishment causes grievous harm to India’s security in more ways than one as reflected in my recent Papers on this site.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Wed, 02/13/2013 - 06:02
Paper No. 5391 Dated 13-Feb-2013
Col. R. Hariharan
The arrest of Giuseppe Orsi, the chief executive of Italy’s largest aerospace group Finmeccanica in Italy as part of an investigation into alleged corruption in international defence deals has once again put the focus back on yet another case of corruption in India’s defence procurement.