The surge in official references to PoK has disrupted the inertia of the past years. Pushing PoK high on India’s strategic priorities will make India’s Kashmir policy more effective.

• Priyanka Singh |
• February 17, 2020 |
• Policy Brief

Implementing the outlined 27 reform measures in four broad areas – Planning, Defence Budget, Acquisition and Make in India – would strengthen defence preparedness and build a credible defence industrial base.

• Laxman Kumar Behera |
• June 06, 2019 |
• Policy Brief

Pakistan’s hybrid war is a reality. India’s efforts need to be oriented towards countering such a war.

• Vivek Chadha |
• February 20, 2019 |
• Policy Brief

India needs to use economic leverages more efficiently to build closer ties with Central Asia.

• P. Stobdan |
• September 17, 2018 |
• Policy Brief

This Brief offers an overview of India’s long established as well as more recent external defence and security priorities, and delineates the three options available to the Defence Planning Committee under the extant economic and geopolitical circumstances.

• S. Kalyanaraman |
• May 24, 2018 |
• Policy Brief

The current policy is premised on the understanding that unless India hurts the principal architect of Pakistan’s Kashmir policy, that is, the Army, terrorism would continue unabated.

• Vivek Chadha |
• March 22, 2018 |
• Policy Brief

The four conditions for acquiring Indian citizenship and new regulations to ease the travel abroad of Tibetan refugees could cause the dismantling of Tibetan settlements which are the nerve centres of the preservation and promotion of Tibetan civilization.

• Yeshi Choedon |
• February 23, 2018 |
• Policy Brief

The Doklam episode should prompt India and Bhutan to rethink their hitherto overlooked issue of resituating Menser and Darchen-Labrang in their academic discourse and policy positions.

• P. Stobdan |
• February 16, 2018 |
• Policy Brief

This policy brief attempts to suggest six critical policy imperatives that must act as guidelines for the ongoing attempt at defence reforms.

• Vivek Chadha |
• September 11, 2017 |
• Policy Brief

The antidote to fidayeen attacks is a well-trained and informed soldier, who is clinical in his task of neutralising the threat as and when it arises.

• Vivek Chadha |
• December 15, 2016 |
• Policy Brief