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Secure under the New Himalayas
Nuclear weapons in India’s strategic culture Despite living next to each other for most of history, despite having fundamentally different ways of looking at international relations, the number of...
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A military modernisation manifesto
A case for genuine defence reforms A decade after the Kargil Review Committee (KRC) submitted its recommendations not much has changed. The report had argued that India’s defence structures are...
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Why Pakistan interferes in Afghanistan
A strong, independent Afghanistan is perceived as an existential threat to Pakistan Just why is Pakistan interested in installing a friendly regime in Afghanistan? Books and articles written over the...
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The cost of Cauvery
A new approach to solving the river water sharing problem. The dispute over the sharing of the waters of the Cauvery river has been a Damocles’ sword threatening inter-state relations in South India....
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William Dalrymple’s triangulation error. Earlier this week, Brookings published a slickly produced essay on Afghanistan by British author William Dalrymple on its website. The sophisticated aesthetic...
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Budgeting for defence
No agenda for defence reform and modernisation is complete without first grounding defence expenditure in sound economic reasoning. Admiral D K Joshi’s resignation earlier this month taking moral...
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Confronting a new world order
The new government should not be distracted from world order issues by the everyday fire-fighting and the occasional crises. So intense, so compelling and so all-consuming was the build-up to the...
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Towards a shared understanding
And why it is important? IN HIS introduction to The Shield of Achilles, Philip Bobbitt argues that history “is the distinctive element in the ceaseless, restless dynamic by means of which strategy and...
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From a domestic to an international narrative
India has the wherewithal to be less finicky about complying with international rules when they come in the way of national interests. It now looks like the impasse at the World Trade Organization...
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When Iran enters the global mainstream
An Iranian entry into the international mainstream is an opportunity of altogether different proportions. There is now a good chance that Iran will conclude a nuclear deal with its international...
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The eightfold path to India’s nuclear fuel supply security
The eightfold path presents eight principles which will help India secure its nuclear energy infrastructure. Energy security will continue to remain a critical determinant for India’s growth story. If...
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The strategic implications of India’s cross-border raid
The government’s challenge will be to quickly consolidate psychological and military gains from this conflict and use intelligence and political methods to prevent the need for such operations in the...
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