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  • Periphery Complex and National Security
       ·   23 Apr, 2002    ·    #733    ·    Commentary    
    The state of unrest in the Northeastern states of India can be viewed as the outcome of a periphery complex, by which is meant the feeling of not quite belonging to the State/Nation one finds oneself or one’s community to be living i...
  • Nepalese Premier’s India Visit: Quid Pro Quo measures?
    Kanchan Lakshman    ·   12 Apr, 2002    ·    #732    ·    Commentary    
    The main point on the Nepalese Premier Sher Bahadur Deuba’s agenda during his six-day visit to India in March 2002 was to secure the Indian government’s support in combating the Maoist insurgency in his country. There has been ...
  • Is Pakistan Really Ready For Peace With India?
    AK Verma    ·   12 Apr, 2002    ·    #731    ·    Commentary    
    Is peace between India and Pakistan at all possible in a presently foreseeable time frame? Evidence suggests that the Pakistan establishment, on balance, has ruled out peace. A strong conviction pervades in its military that peace enforced throu...
  • Sino-Pakistan Maritime Initiatives
    Vijay Sakhuja    ·   10 Apr, 2002    ·    #730    ·    Commentary    
    In yet another move to consolidate their “all weather friendship”, President Pervez Musharraf and the visiting Chinese Vice-Premier Wu Bangguo laid the foundation stone of a deep-sea port at Gwadar on March 22, 2002. The first phase of...
  • What after the Deployment?
    Brig. SS Chandel    ·   10 Apr, 2002    ·    #729    ·    Commentary    
    Three months ago when the Government of India took the decision to deploy its armed forces after much saber-rattling and many bellicose statements, one was left wondering whether it had a grand plan like the Schlieffen - Manstein plan of Germany e...
  • Army in Aid to Civil Authority
    Brig. SS Chandel    ·   10 Apr, 2002    ·    #728    ·    Commentary    
    In Gujarat the Army was deployed in forward deployment areas when the carnage began, hence, it could not have reached the trouble spots to prevent the blood bath. Looking to the future with a view to making the Army more effective in an en...
  • China’s Defence Budget
    Satyajit Mohanty    ·   10 Apr, 2002    ·    #727    ·    Commentary    
    The global conflict dynamics in the Asia-Pacific regional security system will largely depend on how China formulates its military and economic doctrines in the 21st century. One of the indicators of China ’s strategic calcula...
  • Human Rights Organisations in the Northeast: Credibility in Question
    Bibhu Prasad Routray    ·   10 Apr, 2002    ·    #726    ·    Commentary    
    Protecting human rights in a conflict situation as in the Northeast can be a delicate affair. The activities of these Human Rights Organisations (HROs) often reveal that objectivity is the first casualty. Only a handful of voices are not part of a...
  • Environment and Biodiversity
    Col. PK Gautam    ·   10 Apr, 2002    ·    #725    ·    Commentary    
    Biological (bio) diversity is a gift of nature which is best appreciated at three levels, namely:-      (a) Genetic diversity: This is the genetic difference between species like varieties of a crop or livestock breed....
  • Afghan Interim Government: Its Implications for India
    Wg.Cdr. NK Pant (Retd.)    ·   10 Apr, 2002    ·    #724    ·    Commentary    
    At a time when India ’s relations with Pakistan have touched rock bottom and combat formations deployed on the borders have raised tensions between the two neighbours to dangerous heights, the installation of a friendly regime...
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