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  • Afghanistan 2014: Symbolic End Date as Strategic Signpost
    Lydia Walker    ·   01 Dec, 2010    ·    #3286    ·    Commentary    
    For Afghanistan, a long-term solution needs a short-term operational strategy for sustenance.  Recently, at Lisbon, NATO insisted and the US conceded to a new date to exit from Afghanistan – 2014. These fluctuating end dates loom over...
  • START or STOP: Is Nuclear Arms Control lost in USA's Domestic Chaos?
    Yogesh Joshi    ·   26 Nov, 2010    ·    #3285    ·    Commentary    
    The trickiest foreign policy issue before the Obama administration after the midterm elections is ratification of the New START (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty). Signed in April this year, after protracted negotiations between the two Cold War ...
  • Obama’s Nuclear Evolution and the Indo-US Nuclear Partnership
    Lydia Walker    ·   18 Nov, 2010    ·    #3284    ·    Commentary    
    Over the past four years, US Senator, now President, Barak Obama’s public policies towards nuclear non-proliferation in general and the Indo-US Nuclear Deal in particular have shifted. How and when did Obama change from a critic of the Dea...
  • “Grading” Counterinsurgency and the Afghanistan Exit Strategy
    Lydia Walker    ·   18 Nov, 2010    ·    #3283    ·    Commentary    
    Since he took office, US President Barack Obama has tripled the number of American troops in Afghanistan. He turned over command to Generals Stanley McChrystal and David Petraeus in succession, generals who advocate a counterinsurgency (COIN) st...
  • Suu Kyi's Release: As the Dust Begins to Settle
    Medha Chaturvedi    ·   18 Nov, 2010    ·    #3282    ·    Commentary    
    The release of Nobel laureate and the symbol of Myanmar's pro-democracy movement, Aung San Suu Kyi on 13 November 2010 saw celebrations not only among pro-democracy groups in Myanmar, but also supporters worldwide. This sudden benevolence on t...
  • Japan’s Civil Nuclear Deal with India
    Miyuki Fujii    ·   16 Nov, 2010    ·    #3281    ·    Commentary    
    In a rapidly developing and energy-hungry nation such as India, the promise of nuclear power is still to be realized. The 19 nuclear power plants in operation generate a power output of less than 5,000MW which is grossly inadequate. India, howev...
  • The Role of Human Intelligence in Counter-Terrorism
    Siddharth Ramana    ·   16 Nov, 2010    ·    #3280    ·    Commentary    
    The uncovering of recent terror plots, including the arrests in Europe and the detection of letter bombs targeting synagogues in the US can be credited to human intelligence or humint. Humint is a category of intelligence derived from informatio...
  • Indo-Pak Nuclear Commission: A SWOT Analysis
    D Suba Chandran    ·   11 Nov, 2010    ·    #3279    ·    Commentary    
    An earlier article (http://www.ipcs.org/article/india/towards-regional-stability-establish-an-indo-pak-nuclear-commission-3227.html) called for the establishment of an Indo-Pak Nuclear Commission on the model of the Indus Water Commission (IWC)&...
  • The Commonwealth Games and the Commonwealth – Still Relevant?
    PR Chari    ·   11 Nov, 2010    ·    #3278    ·    Commentary    
    Mani Shankar Aiyar’s demand after the Commonwealth Games concluded with “Let the investigation begin,” which was really a lament. Undoubtedly, the Games were a resounding success; India’s sportspersons covered themselves ...
  • Pakistan-US Strategic Dialogue
    Sripathi Naryanan    ·   09 Nov, 2010    ·    #3277    ·    Commentary    
    The Ministerial Level Strategic dialogue between the United States and Pakistan which took place in Washington on 20-22 October was the third of its kind to be held in the past eight months. Similar to past meetings, this too was a high leve...
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