Salient Issues Affecting Defence Manpower in India Manpower costs are increasingly becoming unmanageable and are driving national security planners towards thinking creatively about what used to be called ‘affordable defence’. Despite leap-frogging from third to fourth generation weapons technologies in the short span of about two decades, modern armed forces are still far from being able to effect substantive reductions in manpower by substituting fighting personnel with innovative technologies while ensuring operational effectiveness. Gurmeet Kanwal October 2010 Journal of Defence Studies
Social Networking: Boon or Bane for the Armed Forces The social networking sites can be exploited by the cyber operators by infiltration and influencing the opinion where feasible. Cyber espionage has already became the cornerstone of some nations, where international cyber security agencies have reasons to believe, of state complicity in major hacking, denial of service attacks in the last couple of years. Since social networks become easy prey to such agencies, there is a need to increase awareness of defence personal about their vulnerabilities. Suyash Sharma October 2010 Journal of Defence Studies
India, Israel, and the Defence Taboo Cutting off defence ties with Israel will not in any way be the ‘magic’ bullet that will lead to the resolution of the intractable Palestine conflict. S. Samuel C. Rajiv September 30, 2010 IDSA Comments
Contest and Cooperation in the Arctic Global warming-induced accessibility has drawn many actors to the Arctic zone, seeking to establish exclusive sovereign rights over its many natural endowments. Kalyani Unkule September 28, 2010 IDSA Comments
The ‘Cold Start and Stop’ strategy The strategy helps sensitise Pakistan to India’s tolerance threshold and reinforces deterrence by bringing home unambiguously to Pakistan that things could get out of hand. Ali Ahmed September 28, 2010 IDSA Comments
Poland and India: Bracing for a strategic partnership? As the European political landscape is continuously changing and assertive voices from the CEEC are expected to be heard, India and Poland should seriously think about establishing a strategic partnership. Alok Rashmi Mukhopadhyay , Sebastian Zukowski September 27, 2010 IDSA Comments
Bangladesh Beats Global Recession Through Exports The tremendous growth in Bangladesh’s exports has been due to three factors – the global recession, new markets and China’s spectacular economic growth. Anand Kumar September 27, 2010 IDSA Comments
Genetics and Immigration – The public debate about Muslims in Germany Liberal democratic European countries are suddenly discovering their ‘national heritage’ and their ‘national culture’ because of the desire to maintain the majority position and the privileges that come with it. Alexa Bankert September 24, 2010 IDSA Comments
New START and the Obama Administration: Hurdles Still Ahead With the Senate Committee on Foreign Relatons agreeing on September 16 to send the New START to the full Senate for ratification, the prospects of realising the potential of the Obama administration’s signal foreign policy achievement seem to have improved considerably. S. Samuel C. Rajiv September 23, 2010 Issue Brief
Chinese New Nuclear Power Reactor Supply to Pakistan? The NSG will be in trouble if China goes ahead with its plan to sell nuclear reactors to a non-NPT country like Pakistan. Ch. Viyyanna Sastry September 23, 2010 IDSA Comments
