Peace and Disarmament
US Defence Budget 2010: change and continuity under Obama The Obama administration has sent its first defence budget, for fiscal 2010, to Congress for approval. This budget deserves to be carefully studied, if not … Read moreUS Defence Budget 2010: change and continuity under Obama
Another link in the deepening military ties between India and Israel was established on April 20 when the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully launched a sophisticated surveillance satellite procured from Israel. Fooling nobody, ISRO … Read moreIndia’s Israeli spy satellite: quid pro quo
The Price Of Triumph: NSG Waiver And After THE NSG waiver is now officially in the bag, with the Indian media portraying this to be a major foreign policy victory. What has been … Read moreThe Price Of Triumph: NSG Waiver And After
The Hard Landing For Nuclear Power HYPE is very much like a drug induced high – makes you feel you are floating on air as long as it lasts, but the landing … Read moreThe Hard Landing For Nuclear Power
Military Aviation Supermarket Aviation buffs and business analysts, especially of the India poised variety, were all agog at the Aero India show in Bangalore earlier this month. At last, the air show at Yelahanka air … Read moreMilitary Aviation Supermarket
Alternatively: Pakistan: Squandering its Technological Legacy Technology Acquisition in Pakistan: Story of a Failed Privileged Class and a Successful Working Class, Ghulam Kibria, City Press, 1998. Engineers and technologists are generally an inarticulate lot and … Read moreWhy Pakistan’s Technology Does Not Tick
Broadcasting Culture and the Public Interest, David Page and William Crawley, Sage Publications, New Delhi, 2000, pp. 455, Rs.250.00 India’s Communications Revolution: From Bullock Carts to Cyber Marts, Arvind Singhal and Everett M Rogers, Sage … Read moreSatellites Over South Asia (Courtesy: BookReview)
Just as the previous session of parliament was drawing to a close, the defence ministry had informed the Parliamentary Committee on Defence that the prestigious indigenously-developed Light Combat Aircraft or LCA was likely to be … Read moreLCA Flies—But Will It Take Off?
NUCLEAR weapons are not just another class of weapons in the long history of development of weapons. Nuclear weapons are unique – their impact is primarily on innocent civilian non-combatants, particularly women and children; their … Read moreThe Immorality of Nuclear Weapons
The debate on nuclear weapons in India have been appropriated by a curious breed called “strategic experts” or “defence analysts”. Hidden under such names is the simple fact that they are primarily military analysts and … Read moreThe Nuclear Weapons – the Myths of Military Analysts
K Subrahmanyam, the former director of Institute for Defence Studies and Analysis (IDSA), recently lamented in a Times of India article that media management of the US government was far superior to that of the … Read moreIDSA and Rationalising the Indian Bomb
The technology control regimes have two historical origins. One is to deny advanced technology to those countries that had not signed the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT); the other is to deny any advanced technology flow … Read moreDual Use Technologies or the Unequal Global Technology Regime