IDSA Comments

A National Security Strategy document should be realistic and balanced. While recognizing the challenges, it should also underline the opportunities. For, a successful national security strategy can give a fillip to our national consciousness, economy and socio-economic development, thus creating a calmer environment conducive for national development.

• Arvind Gupta
• October 20, 2011
• IDSA Comments

The publication in the Global Times of two very contradictory articles on the same day on the South China Sea dispute clearly underlines the fact that the Chinese leadership is divided.

• R. S. Kalha
• October 19, 2011
• IDSA Comments

In the wake of its strategic partnership agreement with India, Afghanistan has become an untouchable, even an ‘enemy’, for many Pakistani commentators.

• Shamshad A. Khan
• October 17, 2011
• IDSA Comments

No party to the dispute, including China, has thus far challenged the principle of freedom of navigation for global trade through the South China Sea.

• Rukmani Gupta
• October 17, 2011
• IDSA Comments

Competing claims and reports of oil and gas rich fields in the South China Sea have woven a complicated web affecting the maritime security environment.

• Sarabjeet Singh Parmar
• October 14, 2011
• IDSA Comments

India and France must now develop a joint marketing strategy for satellite launches and also concentrate on the joint design and development of satellites for smaller developing countries.

• Ajey Lele
• October 14, 2011
• IDSA Comments

With 120 members belonging to his faction, Ozawa still wields decisive influence to make or unmake the government led by the DPJ.

• Rajaram Panda
• October 14, 2011
• IDSA Comments

As much as the Maoists would use the opportunity to their advantage, the government should also take advantage of the peace process to defeat the Maoists’ designs through both overt and covert means.

• P. V. Ramana
• October 13, 2011
• IDSA Comments

Strategic Interaction theory suggests that India must employ direct strategies towards a weaker Pakistan and indirect strategies towards a stronger China.

• Mandip Singh
• October 13, 2011
• IDSA Comments

Celebrations of the 1911 Revolution show that history is subject to interpretations, most often in the ways in which it suits contemporary political objectives.

• Avinash Godbole
• October 13, 2011
• IDSA Comments