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  • The Academia and Defence
    Wg.Cdr. NK Pant (Retd.)    ·   22 Nov, 2000    ·    #436    ·    Commentary    
    The scholarly talk on Nuclear Policy, Grand strategy and Political Values in India, delivered by Professor Kanti Bajpai of the Jawaharlal Nehru University a few months back in New Delhi as part of the PC Lal Memorial Lecture under the aegis of the...
  • Indo-Russian Relations: Perspectives
       ·   22 Nov, 2000    ·    #435    ·    Commentary    
    The most important issue in President Putin’s visit to India was the state of Indo-Russian relations in the post-Cold War era. Earlier, despite India ’s Non-Aligned status, the nature of Indo-Russian relations amounted t...
  • Pakistan Today – I: PML (N): In a Perfect Storm?
    D Suba Chandran    ·   16 Nov, 2000    ·    #434    ·    Commentary    
    The Pakistan Muslim League (N) ever since the arrest of Sharif has been fighting to pose a united front. Though the party has not split formally, the danger of such an event cannot be ruled out.  Since the arrest of Nawaz Sharif...
  • The Future of India – Nepal Relations: Problems and Prospects
       ·   16 Nov, 2000    ·    #433    ·    Commentary    
    Dr. Lama initiated the discussion on India-Nepal relations. According to him, there is a  structural and strategic transformation of bilateral relations due to the following factors. First, the restoration of multi-party democracy in Nepa...
  • The LTTE Network
    Sabil Francis    ·   16 Nov, 2000    ·    #432    ·    Commentary    
    In mid-1991 an LTTE hit squad assassinated Rajiv Gandhi. The Indian security forces, who had supplied arms and ammunition to the LTTE, and trained its cadres in Tamil Nadu, struck back, smashing the LTTE network in the state. The LTTE’s stru...
  • Advanced Jet Trainer for the IAF
    Wg.Cdr. NK Pant (Retd.)    ·   16 Nov, 2000    ·    #431    ·    Commentary    
    Acquiring the Advanced Jet Trainer (AJT) has definitely become a top priority item for the Indian Air Force. It been projecting the vital need to induct the AJT in its flying training establishments to the Ministry of Defence since the 1980s when ...
  • LTTE and Tamil Nadu: A Nexus
    Sabil Francis    ·   14 Nov, 2000    ·    #430    ·    Commentary    
    War begins in the minds of men. But to wage war, they need weapons. This is the key difference between a successful insurgency like that of the Tigers in Sri Lanka and the failed one like that of the Tibetans in the mid-1950s. Very few reb...
  • A Recipe for the Kargil War, May 1999
    Brig Chandra B Khanduri    ·   04 Nov, 2000    ·    #429    ·    Commentary    
    Since the publication of the Kargil Review Committee Report on December 15, 1999, the ‘fog of war’ is lifting. There are reports of Brig. Surinder Singh being given a ‘show cause notice’ to be dismissed/discharged from serv...
  • Democratic Anti-thesis: Information Desert in Sri Lanka
    N Manoharan    ·   04 Nov, 2000    ·    #428    ·    Commentary    
    Media is the main information source for civil society and provides an excellent feedback, in a democratic set-up. If the ‘Fourth Estate’ does not enjoy freedom then checks and balances on the other three organs of government are distu...
  • Thinking about the Unthinkable
    Prof. RVR Chandrasekhara Rao    ·   04 Nov, 2000    ·    #427    ·    Commentary    
    The Book, Dragon Fire, by British journalist, Humphrey Hawksley, is ostensibly a novel. A fictitious scenario of nuclear war involving India , Pakistan and China , with the U.S. , U.K. , and Russia willy-nilly g...
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