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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: 8736
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: 6059
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
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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

Djinn is out of Pak bottle
March 12 , 2010 Ajit Doval, KC - Former Director, VIF
Views: 6004
India must immediately upgrade its capabilities and keep a close vigil on the developments to its west Writing in these columns over a year ago, I mentioned that Pervez Musharraf has “domestically lost...

Pakistan, International Relations and Diplomacy, Neighbourhood Studies

Terrorists Changing Tactics, but are We?
March 12 , 2010 Ajit Doval, KC - Former Director, VIF
Views: 6682
A small island of shopkeepers dominated the largest part of the world for the longest period with Genghis Khan, the brute, being a distant runner-up. The two, separated by several centuries, had nothing...

National Security and Strategic Studies, Terrorism

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