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Lessons From Ladakh
The military confrontation between China and India since early May this year in the Indian occupied territory of Ladakh along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) has been the most serious clash between the two […]
Emerging Technologies
Cyber Security Threats to the Indian Strategic Organizations
Cyber threats in nuclear security have emerged as a core issue in contemporary world politics and although various threat scenarios have been developed, cyber-attacks on strategic organizations and their nuclear weapons is a most serious […]
Analysis
Why India should not use Russian S-400 missiles against China
India is embroiled in a border skirmish with China in the Ladakh region in which, it has lost territory as well as scores of soldiers including a battalion commander. The encounter has left India red-faced […]
Emerging Technologies
Trump’s Brinkmanship on Nuclear Testing
On 22 May, Washington Post reported that the U.S. was considering resumption of nuclear testing, after having had its last test in 1992. The stimulus can be traced back to a Compliance Report issued on […]
Economy
A Sceptical Look at Climate Action in the Wake of Coronavirus
The end of March saw an influx of images of wild animals roaming cities freely as an amusing by-product of the otherwise devastating consequences of the spread of Covid-19. There was a goat snacking on […]
Analysis
Air Operations in Sub-Conventional Warfare
The Need to Develop an Independent Philosophy Pakistan Air Force (PAF) is one of Pakistan’s key instruments of national power, employed primarily to thwart external aggression or to establish the will of the state where […]
Analysis
India – A Restless Revisionist State
India has once again embroiled itself in a border skirmish with one of its neighbours that has resulted in a serious embarrassment for its military. Its ‘over sold’ narrative of a rising power willing to […]
Analysis
Nuclear Terrorism in South Asia: A Myth or Reality
“Nuclear competition in South Asia represents a classic conundrum of international relations: enormously high stakes, conflicting and entrenched interests, and at least in the near term, few realistic avenues for mitigating threats.” Daniel Markey Territorial […]
Economy
Modi Downplays India’s Democratic Cum Economic Decline
Machiavelli, in his seminal work The Prince, alluded explicitly to the distinction between the effective and theatrical parts of an enduring political order. He outlined that an effective political order not only has an “efficient […]
Economy
Defence Spending: Necessary or Expendable?
The age-old adage, “Good fences make good neighbours,” by Robert Frost in his poem, Mending Wall, alludes to the importance of a resilient fence and hence a robust defence apparatus to keep one’s neighbours at […]