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  • Pakistan: Key Questions-and Some Preliminary Answers: A Trip Briefing
    Stephen P Cohen    ·   08 Mar, 2001    ·    #481    ·    Commentary    
    Is Pakistan failing? (When will Pakistan fail?)     The wrong question. Some critical institutions have long since failed or never achieved coherence (the political system), others are faltering (the civilia...
  • Philosophy of terrorism in Kashmir
    Brig. SS Chandel    ·   08 Mar, 2001    ·    #480    ·    Commentary    
    One of the characters of Jack Higgins, the insightful novelist, articulates the philosophy of terrorism thus: “The purpose of terrorism is to terrorize – Lenin said that in 1921. Michael Collins lived by that creed; he said it was the ...
  • Birds : Hazards To Safe Flying
    Wg.Cdr. NK Pant (Retd.)    ·   08 Mar, 2001    ·    #479    ·    Commentary    
    Bird hits continue to cause concern to military and civil aviation. According to one estimate, one fifth of the crashes of IAF planes are due bird strikes. The risk of bird strikes is particularly high for the fighter aircraft with single engines ...
  • Future of US Policy in South Asia: Controlling Pakistan
    Parama Sinha Palit    ·   02 Mar, 2001    ·    #478    ·    Commentary    
    Prior to his departure for South Asia in March 2000, President Clinton summed up his views on the region by calling it ‘the most dangerous place’. South Asian observers could have hardly agreed more. After Pokhran and Chagai in...
  • Jihad, Pakistan and Indo-Pak Dialogue
    D Suba Chandran    ·   02 Mar, 2001    ·    #477    ·    Commentary    
    Ever since the military coup and acquiring power, General Musharraf has been continuously expressing his desire for a dialogue with India at various platforms. One significant condition for any such dialogue from India ’s side...
  • Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA) - II
    Brig Chandra B Khanduri    ·   02 Mar, 2001    ·    #476    ·    Commentary    
    The 1991 Gulf War demonstrated RMA in its initial effective form, although, the primary value of emerging technology had been substantiated during the England- Argentina Falkland war. While the NATO and the developed countries grappled with the pr...
  • Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA) - I
    Brig Chandra B Khanduri    ·   02 Mar, 2001    ·    #475    ·    Commentary    
    The last decade of the twentieth century saw the unfolding of some important military events. In the 1970s three wars had far reaching effects: The Indo-Pak war created Bangladesh out of East Pakistan; Vietnam was unified and the world’s sup...
  • Sri Lankan Safari: Of the Violence, By the Violence and For the Violence
    N Manoharan    ·   02 Mar, 2001    ·    #474    ·    Commentary    
    In its mild form, violence is defined as “an outrage, injury or act contrary to one’s feelings or principles”. Of late, the societies, both developed and developing, are afflicted with this endemic problem. The Sri Lankan society...
  • Pakistan Today - III: The Myth of Talibanisation
    D Suba Chandran    ·   27 Feb, 2001    ·    #473    ·    Commentary    
    Is Pakistan getting talibanised? What are the factors that underline such an assumption? Would the mere growth of the madrassas in numbers and the support received by the jihadi organisations from a section of the society be sufficient eno...
  • Pakistan Today - II: Economy: Stupid?
    D Suba Chandran    ·   27 Feb, 2001    ·    #472    ·    Commentary    
    Many “political” and “security” analysts in India and elsewhere had been predicting an economic collapse of Pakistan for the last two years. Though the economy of Pakistan for the last couple of years had be...
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