Securing the Barrack: The Logic, Structure, and Objectives of India\u27s Naval Expansion, Part II

When measured against the summary criteria of the previous paragraphs, it becomes evident that despite the large naval expansion currently underway, the Indian Navy is nowhere near acquiring the true power projection capabilities that its critics often ascribe to it

Securing the Barrack: The Logic, Structure and objectives of india\u27s Naval Expansion. Part 1

Nearly forty years after Independence and amidst the largest expansion in its history, the Indian Navy still struggles to promote the belief that India’s political grandeur has always been inextricably linked with its status as a thalassocracy. Indeed, most Indian navalists, irked by the continental outlook of the last two millennia, not only emphasize the decisive role sea power played in the European conquest of the subcontinent during the Columbian era, hut also wistfully reminisce about lost glories of an ancient Indian naval tradition where an early invocation (ca. 2500-1500 B.C.)- Do thou whose countenance is turned to all sides send off our adversaries, as if in a ship to the opposite shores: do convey us in a ship across the sea for our welfare (Rig Veda 1, 97, 7 and 8)-is often adduced to buttress their claim of a long, proud, and antiquarian maritime lineage

“The new bipolarity between the US and China poses challenges for India” – Ashley Tellis

Ashley J. Tellis featured on the foreign policy panel at India @ 70: LSE India Summit 2017. Following the session, he spoke to Sonali Campion about the new US-China bipolarity in the international environment, the impact of Trump on the US-India relationship and the question of India’s membership of the Nuclear Supplier’s group

Better peacekeepers, better protection? Troop quality of United Nations peace operations and violence against civilians

Why do similarly sized peacekeeping missions vary in their effectiveness to protect civilians in conflicts? We argue that peace operations with a large share of troops from countries with high-quality militaries are better able to deter violence from state and non-state actors, create buffer zones within conflict areas, can better reach remote locations, and have superior capabilities—including diplomatic pressure by troop contributing countries—to monitor the implementation of peace agreements. These operational advantages enable them to better protect civilians. Combining data from military expenditures of troop contributing countries together with monthly data on the composition of peace operations, we create a proxy indicator for the average troop quality of UN PKOs. Statistical evidence from an extended sample of conflicts in Africa and Asia between 1991 and 2010 supports our argument

Beradar, Pakistan, and the Afghan Taliban: what gives?

Ashley J. Telli

Reconciling with the Taliban? : toward an alternative grand strategy in Afghanistan

Ashley J. Telli

Is a regional strategy viable in Afghanistan?

Ashley J. Tellis [u.a.