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Pakistan’s Dangerous Quest for Tactical Nukes

Pakistan’s quest to acquire tactical nuclear weapons (TNWs) has added a dangerous dimension to the already precarious strategic equation in South Asia. The security discourse in the subcontinent revolves around the perennial apprehension of a conve....

March 29, 2013 National Security and Strategic Studies , Neighbourhood Studies , Nuclear and Disarmament , Pakistan

Not in Our Interest to Escalate Matters

Amb Kanwal Sibal

But it’s up to Rome to find an acceptable way out of the crisis it has created. The refusal of the Italian government to send back their marines to India for trial complicates an already emotive issue. The Italian government had till now show....

March 19, 2013 National Security and Strategic Studies , Europe

Adrift without a Strategic Culture

Amb Kanwal Sibal

Does India have a strategic culture? If strategic culture is defined narrowly in the context of the nuclear age alone, then India, as a recent entrant to the nuclear club and still in the process of acquiring minimum nuclear deterrence, evidently lac....

March 14, 2013 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence

Turning India into An Aerospace Power House to end Defence Import Scams

Radhakrishna Rao

Frequent eruption of scams and scandals surrounding India’s high profile defence acquisition programme, besides delivering a severe blow to the defence preparedness of the country, has brought into sharp focus the abysmal failure of the country, bo....

March 12, 2013 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence

'Security Implications of Contemporary Political Environment in India'

Dr. Sudhir S. Bloeria, Vice Chancellor of the Central University of Jammu and Former Chief Secretary of Jammu & Kashmir (This is the text of presentation made by Dr. Bloeria during Vimarsha series of talk at the VIF on 22 Feb 2013) ....

March 07, 2013 National Security and Strategic Studies , Governance and Political Studies

National Counter Terrorism Centre

Dr M N Buch (late)

When we were caught unawares by the Pakistani intrusion into Kargil a high powered committee was set up under Shri K.S. Subramaniam, who had been Defence Secretary of India, to suggest measures whereby we could avoid intelligence failures, provide fo....

March 02, 2013 Terrorism , National Security and Strategic Studies

Vimarsha: Security Implications of Contemporary Political Environment in India with Dr. Sudhir S. Bloeria

Implication of the contemporary political environment in India on matters of national security is critically important, considering all the three factors of internal stability, rule of law and the larger geo-politics of the Indian Sub-continent. For ....

February 27, 2013 Vimarsh , National Security and Strategic Studies , Jammu & Kashmir , Indian security , Sudhir S. Bloeria , Indian Sub-continent

Failing on Terror Yet Again

Amb Kanwal Sibal

Hyderabad is bloodied again by terrorism, exposing once more our failure to marshal the political will, the legal instruments, the organizational structure and the required technical skills and manpower resources to combat this grave threat to the na....

February 26, 2013 Terrorism , National Security and Strategic Studies

Defence Procurement: Would You Do Business With India?

Dr M N Buch (late)

Ever since we became independent we seem to be lurching from one crisis to another in any matter which concerns a deal or a transaction in which we make purchases or where decisions are taken regarding business. One harks back to the scandal attribut....

February 25, 2013 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence

Defence Acquisition: Urgent Need for Structural Reforms

Brig Gurmeet Kanwal

Allegations of corruption in the VVIP helicopter deal have once again brought to the fore the fragility of India’s defence acquisition process. Corruption appears to be endemic in defence procurement and a structural overhaul is now necessary. Indi....

February 25, 2013 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence