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The global onslaught of COVID-19 pandemic continues as uncertainty swirls around the global economy signalling a slowdown. It is still uncertain how long it will take to arrest the spread of the pandemic and normalcy to be restored. Under the prevailing situation, health has rightly been on the top of the agenda of all the countries which would require scaling up the available health facilities for a robust response. Experts say, until there is a medical solution in the form of vaccine to COVID-19, the health issues will remain the top priority for the governments.

• Md. Manuar Mukarram
• May 2020
• Strategic Analysis

The convening of a video conference of the SAARC leaders by the Indian Prime Minister on March 15 to initiate a regional response to the COVID-19 pandemic came as a surprise to many countries in the region that are fighting the crisis mostly alone, scampering for testing kits, medicines and PPEs and also preparing to deal with the impeding economic crisis.

• Smruti S. Pattanaik
• May 2020
• Strategic Analysis

The article focuses on the Five-Day War, which took place between Georgia and the Russian Federation in August 2008. This war provides the first example of use of cyber-attacks during a conventional military engagement.

• Miroslav Mareš , Veronika Netolická
• May 2020
• Strategic Analysis

Northeast India continues to be an industrially underdeveloped and infrastructurally deficient region. The poor condition of infrastructure in the region demands serious attention. Studies in the region reveal that a people’s perspective of development, i.e., roads, electricity, telecommunications and water, falls rightly within the ambit of critical infrastructure. Critical infrastructure is directly linked to economic development, national security, access and availability of educational and health infrastructure.

• Raile Rocky Ziipao
• May 2020
• Strategic Analysis

Strategic culture as a concept is generally understood as pertaining to the influence of the cultural dimension in national strategy. The concept rose to prominence due to the inability of the structural realist theory to explain differences in behavioural patterns among nations. However, a diverse array of perspectives has evolved on the concept, spanning four generations of theorization, giving rise to numerous debates.

• Anand V.
• May 2020
• Strategic Analysis

Ladakh is one of the largest administrative units in India, in terms of its territory. Due to its contiguity with Xinjiang and Tibet and its close proximity to Central Asia, and enjoying a central position in the network of overland caravan routes that were linked to the Silk Route, Ladakh acted as an important gateway in the Indo-Central Asian exchange of men, materials and ideas through the ages.

• K. Warikoo
• May 2020
• Strategic Analysis

It would be advisable to review the proposed offset guidelines keeping in view the feedback from the industry, especially the foreign vendors who carry the primary obligation to execute the offset contract, as also the legacy issues.

• Amit Cowshish
• April 30, 2020
• IDSA Comments

Any dichotomy between the individual rights of the people and the powers of the state has to be dealt with through a nuanced approach.

• Prakash Menon , Kajari Kamal
• April 29, 2020
• IDSA Comments

It is the need of the hour that India and the African countries collaborate to control the outbreak of the pandemic and to mitigate its long-term economic impact.

• Ruchita Beri
• April 29, 2020
• IDSA Comments

Although initially the Maoists suffered some setbacks due to the lockdown, their indulgence in violent incidents over the past one month indicates that they are exploiting the situation to have an upper hand vis-à-vis security forces.

• Rajbala Rana , Mathew Sinu Simon
• April 28, 2020
• IDSA Comments