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Analysing the Attempted Military Coup in Bangladesh
February 10 , 2012 Neha Mehta
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The civil-military relations in Bangladesh have always been unstable, in a country that has been marred by numerous military coups in the past. The Bangladeshi army has been known for factionalism and p...

Bangladesh, Neighbourhood Studies

Spot The Difference - Is the Turkish Model a Way out for Pakistan?
February 9 , 2012 Amb Kanwal Sibal
Views: 3244
To start believing that democracy is taking root in Pakistan because the political confrontation between Prime Minister Gilani and General Kayani has not resulted in a military coup would be premature. ...

Pakistan, Neighbourhood Studies

India’s Defence Production and Research – Need for Transformational up-gradation
February 6 , 2012 Ajit Doval, KC - Former Director, VIF
Views: 9918
Early January 2012, the US Defence Department came out with its Strategic Guidance Document, nineteen years after the last was brought out in 1993. Spelling out American “Priorities for 21st Century Def...

National Security and Strategic Studies, Defence

"Defence Procurements - Need to Re-architect the Process and Procedures"
February 6 , 2012 Dr M N Buch (late)
Views: 4077
The First World War was deemed to be the war to end all wars. Just twenty years after the end of World War I we were engulfed by the Second World War, fought with weapons far more destructive than thos...

Governance and Political Studies

Obama’s New Strategic Guidance Indicates a Shift in Defence Policy
January 30 , 2012 Amb Satish Chandra, Vice Chairman, VIF
Views: 5160
The new strategic guidance for the US Department of Defence, issued on January 5th 2012, in an eight page document entitled “Sustaining US Leadership: Priorities for 21th Century Defense”, merits caref...

National Security and Strategic Studies, US, Defence

Need to Augment Indian Missile Power
January 28 , 2012 Radhakrishna Rao
Views: 9935
The highly disturbed and extremely volatile security environment in India’s neighbourhood underlines the need for India to substantially strengthen its national security apparatus with a range of strate...

National Security and Strategic Studies, Border and Coastal Security, Defence

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