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Needed: War on Error
March 16 , 2010 Ajit Doval, KC - Former Director, VIF
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Hyderabad blasts were waiting to happen; why they weren’t prevented is a longer story of deliberate diversion. For nations, it matters what happens to them; but the course of their history is often det...

Terrorism, National Security and Strategic Studies

Growth of Maoists Fuelled by Politicians
March 16 , 2010 Ajit Doval, KC - Former Director, VIF
Views: 7667
In November 2004 when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said that Left Wing extremism constituted “an even greater threat to India than militancy in Jammu & Kashmir and the North East”, the country took...

National Security and Strategic Studies, Leftwing Extremism

Changing Paradigms of National Security – Need to Transform and not Reform Intelligence Apparatus
March 16 , 2010 Ajit Doval, KC - Former Director, VIF
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Ever since the Chinese debacle of 1962, whenever the nation suffered any serious security setback there has been a clamoring for intelligence reforms. As if following a well rehearsed drill, Government...

National Security and Strategic Studies

Impending Storm
March 16 , 2010 Ajit Doval, KC - Former Director, VIF
Views: 8191
THE ENEMIES, both within and without, use bullets and bombs, not to kill people. They are collateral damages. The real objective is to subdue the enemy by breaking its will and dictating its terms of pe...

Terrorism, North-East Insurgency, National Security and Strategic Studies

Op Moshtarak: Post Surge Operations in Afghanistan
March 15 , 2010
Views: 5683
Courtesy the Iraq diversion, the critical Counter- Terrorist campaign in Afghanistan had been deliberately underfunded and under-resourced for nearly a decade. The situation began to deteriorate steadil...

National Security and Strategic Studies, Afghanistan, Defence, Neighbourhood Studies

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Significance of Putin’s Visit to India by Kanwal Sibal
March 13 , 2010 Amb Kanwal Sibal
Views: 5341
Vladimir Putin deserves our esteem. On assuming power in 2000 he reversed the Yeltsin era drift in India-Russia relations and established a strategic partnership with India. His current visit is his fif...

Europe, International Relations and Diplomacy

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