COMMENTARIES
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In Context: Pakistan's New Army Chief Gen Bajwa
Rana Banerji · 27 Nov, 2016 · #5191 · Commentary
Speculation over the appointment of Pakistan’s 16th Army Chief ended on 26 November 2016 when a comparative `dark horse’, Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa, was declared, with much media fanfare, as the country’s new ` Sipah Salar’ (...
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Restraint to Retribution: Modi’s New Normal and Nawaz Sharif’s Challenge
Lt Gen Arvinder Singh Lamba · 25 Nov, 2016 · #5190 · Commentary
India’s response by a surgical counter-strike by Special Forces on launch pads against terrorists near the Line of Control (LoC) to infiltrate inside Indian Territory was the beginning of a natural but formidable exhibition of the changing...
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Gen Raheel Sharif’s Superannuation: Evolving Scenarios
Portia B. Conrad · 23 Nov, 2016 · #5189 · Commentary
If the retirement of Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff Gen Raheel Sharif transpires in November 2016, it could have significant strategic implications for Pakistan. Until January 2016, it was expected that Gen Sharif, like his predecessors Ge...
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Countering China: India's Uncertain Response
Harry Roberts · 22 Nov, 2016 · #5188 · Commentary
China’s rise, and especially, its growing strategic footprint in the Indian Ocean region has provoked policymakers India to come up with appropriate policy approaches to counter its northern neighbour. However, India’s policy t...
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US Policy Orientation
A New Era for US Foreign Policy?
Lars Brozus · 22 Nov, 2016 · #5187 · Commentary
After 1945, Washington’s approach to international politics was by and large based on ideas linked to the notion of “liberal internationalism.” A bipartisan consensus existed postulating that a liberal international order &ndas...
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IPCS Special Commentary
India’s Nuclear Doctrine: Time for a Review?
Gurmeet Kanwal · 22 Nov, 2016 · #5186 · Commentary
The fragile security environment in Southern Asia is marked by territorial disputes and radical extremism, among other threats and challenges to peace and stability. The security environment has been further vitiated by the proxy war being waged...
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US Policy Orientation
Donald Trump and South Asia
Michael Krepon · 18 Nov, 2016 · #5185 · Commentary
What can the subcontinent expect from President Donald Trump? Bewilderment, for starters. If the new occupant in the Oval Office is unfamiliar with Russia, China, the workings of NATO, nuclear deterrence, and the impact of trade compacts, do not...
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The Precarious Politics of Post-‘Liberation’ Mosul
Derek Verbakel · 16 Nov, 2016 · #5184 · Commentary
Progress is well underway for Mosul to be recaptured from the Islamic State (IS). Aided by US-led air and ground support, the anti-IS campaign chiefly involves the Iraqi Security Forces (ISF); Kurdish Peshmerga; a collection of predominantly-Ira...
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US Policy Orientation
American Turbulence: Global Ramifications
Chintamani Mahapatra · 16 Nov, 2016 · #5183 · Commentary
By electing Donald Trump as the forty-fifth president of the US, the American people created history for the second time in less than a decade. The first was election of an African American as the president. What has surprised millions of poll o...
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Spotlight West Asia
Battle for Mosul: Prospects for the Immediate Future
Ranjit Gupta · 15 Nov, 2016 · #5182 · Commentary · Column
On 17 October 2016, Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar Abadi announced the commencement of the battle for Mosul. He also said that except for the Iraqi army, police and security forces, “no others will be allowed to enter Mosul;” Iraqi troo...
