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  • Defence Budget: More Money Less Hardware
    Wg.Cdr. NK Pant (Retd.)    ·   06 May, 2001    ·    #492    ·    Commentary    
    This year’s budgetary allocation of Rs 62,000 crores for the armed forces is 14 per cent higher than last year’s revised allocations. Adjusted against an inflation rate of 8 per cent, the allocation show a real time hike of 7.9 per cen...
  • India and China: Will the Taliban turn foes into Friends?
    Parama Sinha Palit    ·   06 May, 2001    ·    #491    ·    Commentary    
    Since 1962, India and China have not been the best of friends. Chinese military support to Pakistan has placed a greater distance between them. However, the importance of breaking the ice  is realised by  them. Th...
  • Nepal under Maoist Threat
    Brig Chandra B Khanduri    ·   20 Apr, 2001    ·    #490    ·    Commentary    
    "Why can’t we use the army here,” said the Nepalese Prime Minister GP Koirala on April 10, "when it can serve in different countries as peace keeper?” Koirala was reacting to the recent Maoist guerilla attacks at Police...
  • International Terrorism: Osama bin Laden and Weapons of Mass Destruction
    Dr. Subhash Kapila    ·   12 Apr, 2001    ·    #489    ·    Commentary    
    The United States and Western Countries have been haunted ever since the disintegration of the Soviet Union with the prospect of WMDs falling into the hands of terrorist groups.  Their fears have turned out true with informati...
  • Japan: Upgradation of Defence and Surveillance Capabilities
    Dr. Subhash Kapila    ·   12 Apr, 2001    ·    #488    ·    Commentary    
    Japan today exhibits a growing need to upgrade her defence and surveillance capabilities to meet the demands of a troubled security environment.  China is increasingly figuring as its dominant threat perception. This prospect is troubling J...
  • Nuclear South Asia: Reducing Risks
       ·   12 Apr, 2001    ·    #487    ·    Commentary    
    From one perspective the South Asia nuclear equation is a first-ever situation. The closest the world came to this during the cold war era was the ‘two Germanys ’. However, there was no ongoing conflict and, the control ...
  • Situating India in the Dynamics of Globalisation
    Rahul Arun    ·   12 Apr, 2001    ·    #486    ·    Commentary    
    The post cold war world has witnessed tectonic shifts in the global politico-economic architecture, which has stratified the world between the Czars of the North and the vassals of the South.  Globalisation of the international economy has re...
  • Myanmar: Contending hegemonies between India and China
    Abhishek Srivastava    ·   12 Apr, 2001    ·    #485    ·    Commentary    
    Myanmar was shunned by India after its pro-democracy movement was crushed by the Army.  This was a blunder.  Indian wisdom now to deal with Myanmar has resulted from the increasing Chinese hegemony over Myanma...
  • Lessons from Bamiyan
    Brig. SS Chandel    ·   22 Mar, 2001    ·    #484    ·    Commentary    
    The vandalistic destruction of the massive images of Buddha in Bamiyan in Afghanistan is an expression of implacable hatred that the ruling Taliban has for everything that, has even the remotest connection with ‘Hindu’ Indi...
  • Extending the Peace Net: Three Snakes and a Peacock
    N Manoharan    ·   14 Mar, 2001    ·    #483    ·    Commentary    
    After Kashmir , it is the turn of the Northeast. The Centre is “actively” considering the Nagaland government’s proposal to extend the three-year-old ceasefire with the NSCN (IM) to two other insurgent groups—NSCN(K)...
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