The enduring lesson of strategic restraint tribuneindia.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from tribuneindia.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Panel discussions will be held on various subjects including China, its modernisation plans, followed by a debate on the brutal methods adopted by its emperor Ying Zheng during his reign from 247 to 221 BC and the blind faith of the present leadership in his methods and the frightening signals it sends to Asia and the world.
If the trend of “subordinating foreign policy to domestic political compulsions continues, India will find itself more isolated and challenged than at any time since Independence”, the report notes.
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India must strike to deter, any other policy for drone attacks will play into Pakistanâs hands
When it comes to drones hovering on India-Pakistan border, political will, equipped with a broad range of innovative capabilities to inflict pain, remains the best defence. Text Size:
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Drones captured the imagination of the Indian public last week by dropping explosives on a military target close to the India-Pakistan border. Fear ensued, with Pakistan and drones coalescing in the public perception. Terrorism has revealed another arrow in its arsenal, and India seemed unprepared despite threat recognition for several years.
The truth is, that even the US has not been able to evolve adequate defensive measures against this form of threat â small-sized, difficult to detect, terrain-hugging drones armed with explosives and, used in Kamikaze mode. US bases in Iraq and Afghanistan have repeatedly been targeted.