Defense
Expansion of Indian Naval Forces in the Indian Ocean
The decade beginning the year 2010 has
seen some rapid growing military initiatives around the globe, especially in
South Asia and Middle East Asia, where the...
The IRGC’s Struggle for the Advancement of the Islamic Republic of Iran
Following the victory
of the Islamic Revolution, and especially in the last two decades, given the
successes of Iran in domestic and foreign fields, a concerted...
Fear of the Unknown: Pakistan, India and Kashmir, a nasty con
Power sometimes help to change the attitude of the doer, or indeed, to
stop the doer of doing undesired things. Thus, power is the central...
On Nuclear Madmen and Their Perilous Bluffs
During the Cold War, and in particular,
the Nixon era, the US’s Nuclear Deterrence Strategy had at times flirted with
the idea of its leadership playing...
Revitalising the Quad
With a
high-level informal meeting of the Foreign Ministers of US, India, Japan and
Australia on the side lines of the last month UN General Assembly...
The Game-changing Fallibility of BMD Systems: Lessons from the Middle East and South Asia
As the
Middle East’s major powers recalculate their defence and foreign policies
following last month’s missile strikes on Saudi oilfields, there have emerged
some telling lessons with...
Protracted Asymmetric Geopolitical Conflict
Each of us has his own
definition of “geo-history”, and mine is the interface of the “geopolitical”
and the “world-historical.”
We are marked by two
anniversaries, that...
Time for a New Approach to Conventional Arms Control?
The return to an outright deterrence relationship
between NATO and Russia involves the danger of an arms race and a number of
military risks, particularly in...
China’s new military technologies
According
to some international press and media sources, China is investing significant
sums of money in some dual-use technologies - i.e. both civilian and military
at the...
US Strategy after the INF Treaty: Implications and Projected Outcomes
Thirty-one
years ago, US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail
Gorbachev signed the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty placing a
curb on nuclear weapons after...