SAV Review: What Drives Doctrinal Change in the Indian Army?
In March 2018, the journal India Review published a special issue on the theme of the Indian strategy and its various elements. Christopher Clary, a […]
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India’s Pakistan-Specific Land Warfare Doctrine: An Overview
Army doctrines, which encapsulate a military service’s warfighting principles, act as a catalyst for experiments with new concepts and terminologies of complex security arrangements. The […]
What Message Does the Latest India-Pakistan Crisis Send to Militants in Kashmir?
On February 14th of this year, a 20-year-old Kashmiri militant, Adil Ahmad Dar rammed an SUV full of explosives into an Indian paramilitary convoy truck […]
Did Pakistan Successfully Push Back Against the Balakot Strikes?
The recent India-Pakistan military standoff has been a cause of serious concern for a number of reasons. After the militant attack in Pulwama in Jammu […]
The Pulwama Aftermath: Making Sense of India’s Response
Indo-Pak Crisis Post Pulwama: New Delhi’s Next Steps By: Tanvi Kulkarni There are many dimensions to the current crisis that seem to be unfolding between […]
Understanding India’s Land Warfare Doctrine
The Indian Army’s latest iteration of its doctrine, Land Warfare Doctrine (2018), had a soft launch on December 14th of last year, being placed on […]
Pulwama Attack: Pakistan’s Perceptions and Potential Reaction
On February 14, a convoy of vehicles transporting Indian security forces from Jammu to Srinagar was attacked by a suicide bomber driving a vehicle rigged […]
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Hot Takes: Contemplating India’s Response to the Pulwama Attack
Can New Delhi Pursue its Own Brand of Tailored Deterrence? By: Sylvia Mishra On February 14th, 2019, in a dastardly terror attack conducted and claimed by […]
Pakistan’s National Security: Need for a Civil-Military Partnership
Recent frictions in the United States between President Trump, the military, and the intelligence community provide a valuable lesson to Pakistan. Just recently, the President […]
End of the Afghan Conflict: Pakistan’s Hopes and Fears
The six-day long deliberations between the Afghan Taliban and U.S. negotiators in Qatar at the end of January ended in an in principle agreement to […]
Hot Take on Indian Budget: Inadequate for Defense Needs
When Indian finance minister Piyush Goyal announced in the Parliament on Friday that India’s defense budget would cross ₹3 lakh crore (approximately USD 42 billion) […]
Wither U.S.-Pak Relations? Impact of American Withdrawal from Afghanistan
The Afghan Taliban and the United States are reportedly close to finalizing a deal to end America’s longest war. After weeks-long negotiations, Washington and the […]
Chinese Aggression in the South China Sea: Implications for India
Chinese Premier Xi Jinping made a splash internationally when in his first military order of 2019 he instructed the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) to be […]
Evaluating India and Pakistan’s Strategic Narratives
In a recent series for South Asian Voices, two scholars each from India and Pakistan shared their thoughts on India and Pakistan’s military doctrines, postures, […]
Afghan Security Forces in Crisis: A Fixable Problem?
There is no denying the fact that Afghanistan is challenged by a deteriorating security situation. With the Taliban maintaining a presence in 70 percent of […]
Afghan Presidential Elections: Could Deferral Help the Peace Process?
Late last month, in a surprise move, the Independent Election Commission (IEC) of Afghanistan announced that next year’s presidential elections will proceed as planned on […]
Pakistan’s Consolidating Conventional Deterrence: An Assessment
Before the overt nuclearization of South Asia in 1998, three major wars between India and Pakistan highlighted the latter’s struggle to bridge the conventional imbalance. […]