Kabul not an easy target for Taliban any more?

The 19 August attack on the British Council compound in Kabul had the necessary SIR elements -- Surprise, Intricacy and Retribution. It demonstrated yet again a complex combination of tactics......

Limitations of Operation Green Hunt

It is necessary to make incremental progress, state by state, rather than aiming for an illusory knock-out punch against the Maoists, write Dr Shanthie Mariet D'Souza and Dr Bibhu Prasad Routray.......

Islamic State in India: The Jihadist Reboot

'The undiminished threat has the potency of sustaining itself in multiple ways in the near and medium term.''State agencies need to utilise innovative methods in countering radicalisation and......

New Delhi's strategic dissonance in post-2014 Afghanistan

India's post 2014 Afghanistan policy appears to be glued to the best-case scenarios of a successful democratic transition. New Delhi hopes that it would remain ‘business as usual’ and......