IDSA Comments

An expansionary fiscal policy has been the prime mover for the large increase in the budget of the defence ministry, which would otherwise have come under severe budgetary pressure.

• Laxman Kumar Behera
• March 20, 2012
• IDSA Comments

The American inability to provide effective leadership in the Middle East is a sufficient incentive for Indian defiance over unilateral oil sanctions against Iran. Yes, this defiance has difficulties and problems, but it is worth the price to assert India’s independent foreign policy making.

• P. R. Kumaraswamy
• March 19, 2012
• IDSA Comments

The American inability to provide effective leadership in the Middle East is a sufficient incentive for Indian defiance over unilateral oil sanctions against Iran. Yes, this defiance has difficulties and problems, but it is worth the price to assert India’s independent foreign policy making.

• P. R. Kumaraswamy
• March 19, 2012
• IDSA Comments

The real challenges for the New Delhi summit are issues that are linked not only with the future of BRICS but also with the conduct and approach of its members towards each other.

• Jagannath P. Panda
• March 19, 2012
• IDSA Comments

India must use the opportunity to extract a commitment from Sri Lanka to initiate a serious process of dialogue aimed at evolving a political solution to the Tamil issue.

• Gulbin Sultana
• March 19, 2012
• IDSA Comments

War is a too serious a business to be left to NCOs and Generals must be involved both at the strategic and tactical levels to ensure the moral and disciplined manifestation of a professional military.

• P. K. Gautam
• March 15, 2012
• IDSA Comments

India should thus take a regional lead to push Bhutan’s idea of ecological preservation forward, an action which will further generate goodwill and understanding between the two countries.

• Medha Bisht
• March 15, 2012
• IDSA Comments

The real test of the latest deal will be when the IAEA inspectors visit North Korea’s nuclear facility and file their report on the moratorium.

• Preeti Nalwa
• March 14, 2012
• IDSA Comments

Israel is likely to calculate that it would better to wait and use diplomacy to push the major global and regional powers towards some kind of a joint venture against the much feared nuclear designs of Iran.

• Jagdish N Singh
• March 13, 2012
• IDSA Comments

Pakistan has failed to address the aspirations of the people under subjugation in PoK leading to frequent political outbursts as being witnessed now, outbursts that are only likely to grow given Pakistan’s indifference towards the region as well as its internal security dynamics and external preoccupations.

• Priyanka Singh
• March 06, 2012
• IDSA Comments