IDSA Comments

Across the globe, a crucial but largely unseen and unheard of force in the Global War on Terrorism is emerging – young, hardened, militant, radicalized recruits from Africa – a force potent enough to compel governments to revise their handbooks on how best to contend with Islamic extremism.

• Mayank Bubna
• January 14, 2010
• IDSA Comments

India should clarify through actions and words that it has no intention of interfering in Nepal, that it respects Nepal’s sovereignty and that it is ready to work with any dispensation in Nepal for furthering mutual security and economic concerns.

• Nihar R. Nayak
• January 13, 2010
• IDSA Comments

If India indeed considers itself to be a rising power, it cannot remain a passive in the face of instability all around it.

• Ramesh Phadke
• January 12, 2010
• IDSA Comments

A soldier may not bother about the causes of hardship, but one always cares for his close comrades, their safety and welfare and most importantly, their opinion of him as a friend and as a man

• K C Dixit
• January 08, 2010
• IDSA Comments

Although Iran’s regime is under no immediate danger of being toppled, it however faces a growing number of internal and external threats which will necessitate prudent redressing.

• M. Mahtab Alam Rizvi
• January 08, 2010
• IDSA Comments

The Joint Statement catapulted India-Japan strategic and global partnership to a “New Stage” in which the bilateral relationship is going to be deepened on all fronts, embracing regional, global and economic issues.

• Rajaram Panda
• January 07, 2010
• IDSA Comments

Clearly, there is immense scope for cooperation between India and Myanmar to deal in agro-based products, floriculture, engineering, timber and tobacco and expand business cooperation. Although there has been a significant increase in bilateral trade in recent years, full potential has yet to be realised.

• Saurabh
• January 06, 2010
• IDSA Comments

The participation of the PLA Navy in escort missions in foreign waters is a radical departure from the historical point of view because this is the first time that the PLA Navy is carrying out such tasks not in national waters.

• Prashant Kumar Singh
• January 06, 2010
• IDSA Comments

The point of significance is that even as the Army prepares for the worst case, it would be a political-diplomatic-strategic exercise to ensure that such a scenario does not arise.

• Ali Ahmed
• January 06, 2010
• IDSA Comments

Given the divergence of views in the industrialized and industrializing countries as was demonstrated at Copenhagen, it is too early to expect any comprehensive result from the Copenhagen Accord. One needs to wait till June 2010 if the UN meeting at Bonn will yield a different outcome.

• Simi Thambi
• January 05, 2010
• IDSA Comments