Comment & Briefs

Syria: The Cease-Fire that was and wasn’t

The Kerry-Lavrov agreement did not work because those who had to cease fire were not willing to abide by it.

September 23, 2016

  • K. P. Fabian
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    Calibrated Responses: The Way Forward for Defeating Proxy War

    Through a pragmatic strategy coupled with national will, India should undertake calibrated responses to defeat Pakistan’s proxy war game plan with a view to making its misadventures prohibitively costly and unsustainable.

    September 23, 2016

  • G.G. Dwivedi
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    Pakistan’s Tactical Nuclear Warheads and India’s Nuclear Doctrine

    The advocacy by Pakistani analysts of the Indian disinclination to retaliate massively in response to their use of TNWs on their own soil indicates either a flawed analysis or a bluff that the Indian armed forces would be inclined to call.

    September 21, 2016

  • Gurmeet Kanwal
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    Trinidad and Tobago’s Air Arms: Inefficient Duplication of Effort

    For Trinidad and Tobago, having two Air Arms has led to duplication of effort that has rendered existing assets less effective than they otherwise might have been. A faulty procurement process has also led to an incompatibility of both aircraft and avionics.

    September 21, 2016

  • Sanjay Badri-Maharaj
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    Can Prachanda use his India visit to resolve the Madhes issue at home?

    Prime Minister Puspa Kamal Dahal has a whole pile of problems lying unsolved at home. And he has only nine months, as set by his coalition partners, to deliver on his promises.

    September 16, 2016

  • Umesh K. Bhattarai
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    Deciphering Pakistan’s Kashmir Lexicon

    India has failed the Valley by not countering the false narratives of Pakistan’s false lexicon on Kashmir.

    September 08, 2016

  • Prabha Rao
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    An Assessment of President Obama’s Foreign Policy

    If the history of the world is the world’s court of justice, history will rate Obama, the 44th President of the United States, among the top ten of the holders of that high office.

    September 08, 2016

  • K. P. Fabian
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    The race for leadership in supercomputers – does India stand a chance?

    India must move away from the perspective which it has allowed to dominate, namely, that the application of supercomputers is more important than supercomputer technologies themselves.

    September 07, 2016

  • Prabha Rao
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    The Draft Maharashtra Protection of Internal Security Act 2016: A Review

    While the need for re-evaluating internal security holistically is undeniable, it may be appropriate to deal with this matter in the national context.

    September 07, 2016

  • Gautam Sen
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    Latin America Post the Impeachment of Dilma Rouseff

    The salience of the impact of the Rouseff-related developments lie in the fact that there is a degree of similarity in the economic policies of the erstwhile Rouseff Government and its counterparts in some of the other Latin American countries…

    September 06, 2016

  • Gautam Sen
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