IDSA Comments

The external linkages of the Maoists are wide, stretching from Latin America to South East Asia. These linkages have, essentially, given them visibility and propaganda, and very occasionally weapons.

• P. V. Ramana
• April 29, 2016
• IDSA Comments

If a product is indigenously designed, developed and manufactured, should the percentage of indigenous content in that product really matter so much?

• Amit Cowshish
• April 29, 2016
• IDSA Comments

The Task Force has not extended the principle of Strategic Partnership to the whole gamut of big contracts in which the private sector is supposed to play a major role. And it visualises strategic partners as poor cousins of state-owned entities.

• Laxman Kumar Behera
• April 26, 2016
• IDSA Comments

The need of the moment is an encryption policy that does not come in the way of innovation but at the same time reduces undue opportunities for criminal and terrorist activities.

• Arul R
• April 22, 2016
• IDSA Comments

China’s continuing complicity in nuclear proliferation networks would weaken the global nuclear security regime. Hence, China must cooperate with the international community for reinvesting the benefits achieved by the Nuclear Security Summit process, and help develop stronger nuclear security architecture in the Indian subcontinent.

• Reshmi Kazi
• April 22, 2016
• IDSA Comments

SAARC satellite was an opportunity for Pakistan to display its enthusiasm for space cooperation with India, but its strategic calculations appear to have ‘jammed’ its vision.

• Ajey Lele
• April 19, 2016
• IDSA Comments

Settler entrenchment has reached a point where no peaceful assimilation of the entire West Bank into a compact territory of a future Palestine state and a harmonious division of Jerusalem city linked to this entity may be possible.

• Gautam Sen
• April 19, 2016
• IDSA Comments

‘Transfer of Technology’ does not magically elevate defence production capabilities to cutting-edge levels and help attain future self-reliance because technology sellers employ restrictive trade practices to prevent such an eventuality.

• Kevin A. Desouza
• April 12, 2016
• IDSA Comments

Defence planning has had a troubled history since its inception, in spite of several experiments with the structures and processes of planning. It will, therefore, be in the fitness of things to re-evaluate the existing architecture of planning.

• Amit Cowshish
• April 11, 2016
• IDSA Comments

Despite political differences over regional issues, India and Saudi Arabia are intensifying cooperation on issues of mutual interest such as terrorism, piracy, security cooperation, and intelligence sharing.

• Prasanta Kumar Pradhan
• April 06, 2016
• IDSA Comments