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National Counter-terrorism Centre (NCTC): Issues and Options
Going by the recent claims of Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde, NCTC would see the light of the day after next month’s Chief Ministers’ conference. Earlier attempts to set-up an umbrella body on counter-terrorism failed mainly because of opposi....
April 01, 2013 Terrorism , Leftwing Extremism , Jammu & Kashmir , North-East Insurgency , National Security and Strategic Studies , Police - Law and Order
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
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
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
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
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
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
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