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ID:
155598
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ID:
155605
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ID:
154411
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| Summary/Abstract |
The concept of deterrence can be simply explained as the use of threat
to convince others to desist from initiating some course of action. A
threat serves as a deterrent to the extent that it convinces its adversary
not to carry out the intended action because of the exorbitant costs and
losses that it would incur. A policy of deterrence generally refers to threats
of military retaliation directed by one state to another in an attempt to
prevent the other state from resorting to the threat of use of military force
in pursuit of its foreign policy goals. In this context, as long as nuclear
weapons are around, even in small numbers, deterrence is the safest policy
to deal with them. This was true during the Cold War, and it appears to
be even truer today
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ID:
154412
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n India, service officers and civil bureaucracy share a very delicate
relation, which many in the military find skewed unfavourably towards
the bureaucracy. It is perceived that instituting the appointment of
single-point military advisor would help to mitigate, to a great extent,
the said problem besides making the military operationally efficient and
administratively effective. Instituting the appointment of single-point
military advisor is imperative but, equally important are accompanying
reforms in the defence architecture and its systems and processes to make
the appointment and the defence establishment effective. T
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ID:
155606
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ID:
154414
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ID:
155609
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ID:
154407
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Without the benefit of a formalized National Security Strategy, a
maze of pronouncements and reflections dictate the ongoing broad
war-fighting conceptology. Two or two and a half front (simultaneous)
war under a nuclear overhang, the basis of current strategic and structural
construct, is one such key element. Often short, intense, swift, limited
wars are spoken of without exemplifying or paraphrasing it towards
implementation or structural transition. The on-going thrust towards
military modernisation and capability building (including for deterrence)
relies on these constructs.
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ID:
155600
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ID:
155601
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ID:
154408
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Military leadership is a combination of the ability ‘to win wars’ (or,
in peace-time, to achieve favourable outcomes in operations other
than war [OOTW]) and, the ability to look after its men. Whereas these
abilities may be imbibed progressively by the military officer during his
three to four decade-long career, it is an oft-repeated perception that the
Indian Army officers generally lacks a strategic culture, which becomes
increasingly important as they rise up in service and hold operational
responsibilities at the senior level. Further, it is alleged that, as a
consequence of this deficiency, many operational problems which are of
‘strategic’ magnitude are dealt with tactically—resulting in, at best, only
short-term gains or effects. Is this a mistaken perception or is it factual—
and if so, is it caused by inadequacies in the way we expose and train the
Army leadership, especially our middle level and senior officers?
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ID:
154413
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The famous singer had no idea the storm he created in the virtual
world. He was venting his discomfort at being woken up by morning
prayers being aired through loudspeaker. It is an issue that has plagued
the nation since long and almost all religious institutes are guilty of noise
pollution. Since his remark was against a particular religion which was
perceived to be disturbing his peace, it created furore dividing the media,
celebrities, politicians, and even the common man on religious as well as
argumentative lines. Earlier it was the video of Kashmiri youth hitting
CRPF soldiers followed by a local Kashmiri youth tied on the bonnet of
an Army vehicle that drew sharp and extreme responses from the netizens
and citizens alike
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ID:
155608
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ID:
155599
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ID:
154406
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| Summary/Abstract |
Strategic stability has not found a universal definition for many reasons,
the primary being the lack of agreeing on the right conceptual thought,
and language interpretation also added to the challenge of arriving at
an exact terminology. The meaning and implications were agreed and
recognised between the two super powers which is Russia and the United
States, during the cold war.
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ID:
154415
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The twenty-first edition of the trilateral Malabar naval exercises
between India, Japan, and the US are scheduled to take place close to
Indian shores in July this year. The modalities of the war games are being
finalised in which fine tuning Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) skills will
have particular focus with the China factor in mind. Though there is no
visible confrontation, there is a visible undercurrent building and a ‘wait
and watch’ game unfolding in the depths of the Indian Ocean as each
player accesses the other’s capacities and capabilities, a phase reminiscent
of the cold war. This puts in question India’s own capabilities and the
modernisation of its Navy in light of the rapid augmentation of submarine
strength of its adversaries and the near to medium-term picture does seem
worrisome.
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ID:
155610
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ID:
154410
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I believe we have only begun to explore the full potentialities of the United
Nations as an instrument for multilateral diplomacy, especially the most
useful combination of public discussion on the one hand and private
negotiations and mediation on the other.
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ID:
155604
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