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India – Pakistan relations Nuclear doctrine, militarization and security dynamics of the Indian Ocean region

By :  Anum A. Khan According to Cold War notion of strategic stability, deterrence will prevail if both countries have second strike capability due to the concept of Mutually Assured…

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Surgical strike – the Indian fiction

By M Haroon Aslam  “I've got a plan so cunning, you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel”  this Blackadder quote is so relevant to the…

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Disempowering the soldier Indian Army

By curtailing the effectiveness of the Armed Forces Tribunals, the Government is destroying the military justice system which is a disservice to serving and retired personnel By Deepak Sinha With…

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India’s triad nuclear deterrence is more event management than substance

By Pravin Sawhney With a nudge from those keen on governmental image management, the Indian Navy has carried out its version of the 2016 'surgical strikes' by launching a mission…

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Distant handshake Rough weather ahead for Indo-US relations

By Bharat Karnad The 2018 US Congressional Elections are over, and the Republican Party has lost control of the lower House in the legislature  the House of Representatives rather decisively.…

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The salience of Pak-Afghan border management

By Qadir Khan Yousafzai The Afghan Parliamentary elections gained more traction and importance due to the completion of the second round of Afghan Taliban talks with the U.S. delegation in…

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Kabul control slips, Afghan force losses at record – US watchdog

Kabul's control of Afghanistan slipped in recent months as local security forces suffered record-level casualties while making minimal or no progress against the Taliban, a US government watchdog said Thursday.…

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How Modi convinced India to celebrate a ‘surgical strike’ that never actually happened

By Shajeel Zaidi Sparta, a warrior city in ancient Greece, was known for the ferocity of its soldiers. But while its soldiers might have been the best in the ancient…

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Why Rafale and S-400 missile system will not give India’s defence sector an edge

The government's defence of the deal for 36 Rafale jets is not credible, and so is the multi-billion dollar S-400 deal which has no technology offsets By Bharat Karnad The…

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The (IM) permanent Indo US partnership

By Ayesha Abbasi In recent years both the United States and India committed themselves to an enduring partnership first through what was called a “strategic handshake” and later through a…

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