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If Pakistan thinks they can scare Modi by playing mad, the Balakot air strikes show that he can scare them even more. Pakistan's madman theory has been turned on its head.
While every counter-terror theatre works on its own specific requirements and variables, Pakistan is a completely different ball game.
Any future terrorist attack could be met by a response to a contour shaped by the Balakot action.
As China innovates its aerial platforms and weaponry to match the US Air Force, the Indian defence-industrial planning will have to be more ambitious.
The last few days have reminded us that no war can be won without good diplomacy.
Amid the claims and counter-claims surrounding the Balakot air strikes, the Modi government has been emphasising that it has established a new normal.
Most leading air forces around the world were quick to learn from the experiences of the US Air Force between the Vietnam War in the 1960s and the Gulf War three decades later. This resulted in the widespread adoption by these forces of Precision Guided Munitions (PGMs) beginning in the mid-1990s. Only a few of these air arms, however, have matched the overall effectiveness of US air power, which combines aircraft survivability with weapon range,
Even before coming to office in 2014, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had implied that his government would address Pakistan-sponsored terrorism differently.
Our adversary stays the same and remains committed to propagating an alternate reality, one where they are always the victim, the duped, and somehow i
There needs to be a technology acquisition drive to military modernisation plans.
Notwithstanding Pakistan’s best efforts to steer the Pulwama narrative to its advantage, what should worry us is the political orchestration that has not ceased yet.
The IAF's strikes on the terror camps in Balakot, Muzaffarabad and Chakoti in Pakistan mark a fundamental shift in New Delhi’s approach to its security.
Even short of nuclear war, it is open to debate if India, the preponderant South Asian military power, has the capacity to beat Pakistan at this juncture.
Against the backdrop of the Pulwama suicide bombing and the Balakot air-strikes, national security has acquired a political salience that it might not have otherwise. This is reflected in the manifestos of both the main national parties, the BJP and the Congress.
India’s February 26 attack can be seen as more of a signalling of intent than a counter-terror operation
New Delhi would be well advised to look at the Pakistan situation with an open mind or risk being left out of the flow.
Although statistics and the mood on the ground do reflect considerable progress, bringing normalcy back to the Valley remains an elusive goal.
While the idea that emotional appeal is central to political persuasion may serve common intuition, the dynamics underscoring how and why this is so, remain underexplored. This primer collates insights from neuroscience and political psychology to show why emotions are essential to vote choice. It explores the effects of emotional appeals on voter perceptions using examples from campaign advertisements in US elections. The analysis finds that pol
Even with the hierarchical decapitation of Hamas by Israel, it is likely that the group would resurface in another avatar
The decision about whether to escalate or not is much more complex than it appears.
Political will, which is otherwise scarce in New Delhi, is precisely what Modi demonstrated whether it was Balakot, the Kinetic Direct Ascent Anti-Sat
India needs to adopt adequate counter-measures against the growing use of IW by China and Pakistan
To properly establish ICTs, the government needs to step in and resolve any pending issues among the three services as well as between the bureaucracy
Imran has announced that the onus is on India now to take further steps and create an enabling environment for peace.
The Nepal-India-Sri Lanka initiative could be used to pursue better people-to-people relations.
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If the Balakot strike is not to join the dismal achievement of previous Indian attacks, it has to be part of a deterrence strategy.
The way it is currently configured, Pakistan is unlikely to to mend itself any time in the foreseeable future.
Since August 2021 when the US withdrew from Afghanistan, ceasefire violations at the India-Pakistan Line of Control (LoC) and killings of minorities in J&K have been reported. Indeed, the fall of Kabul to the Taliban has bolstered the anti-India establishment and the terrorist groups in Pakistan—putting the February 2021 ceasefire agreement between India and Pakistan under stress. India's conventional military response of the type of the 'S
We should consider the effects of the Balakot strike
What has happened in Balakot is a punitive strike against known camps of terrorists — especially Jaish-e-Mohammed.
Clearly, the prime minister is very good at making speeches.
The wave of terrorist violence that will hit India as a result of de-escalation at this stage is not going to be a tenable proposition.
The wave of terrorist violence that will hit India as a result of de-escalation is not going to be a tenable proposition for India.
आयटीसी योग्यरीत्या स्थापित करण्यासाठी नोकरशाही, सीडीएस आणि सेवा या तीन घटकांमधील प्रलंबित समस्यांचे निराकरण सरकारने करणे आवश्यक आहे.
नेपाळ-भारत-श्रीलंका या उपक्रमाचा उपयोग लोकांचे संबंध अधिक चांगले करण्यासाठी केला जाऊ शकतो.
पाकिस्तानी लष्कराच्या गुप्तचर संस्थांकडून आणि त्यांच्या प्रसारमाध्यमांकडून त्यांच्या जनतेच्या मनात भारताबद्दल द्वेषाचे विष पसरवण्याचे काम केले जात आहे.
पुलवामा दहशतवादी हल्ल्यानंतरची प्रतिक्रिया आणि त्यानंतरच्या हवाई कारवाईच्या अंमलबजावणीमध्ये जबाबदार राष्ट्र म्हणून असलेली भूमिका भारताने सोडलेली नाही.
