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28 April 2012India Needs a Joint Chiefs BY

The Diplomat republished Brig. (Retd.) Xerxes Adrianwalla's article on the obsolete Indian military structure. He advocates reforms for the system, such as having a Joint Chiefs of Defense Staff to co-ordinate and synergize operations and equipment.

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courtesy: Ministry of Defence, India
10 April 2012India: A unified defence command? BY

India must revisit the need for a unified command structure, to effectively use the enormous combat power it is developing at such astronomical cost. A balanced force-restructuring based on operational needs can enable the armed forces to project itself as a single, viable, effective war machine.

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9 April 2012The Geopolitics of Hydropower in Central Asia: the Syr Darya BY Eelke P. Kraak

The hydropower programme developed by the government of Kyrgyzstan is driven by the alignment of actual energy concerns with interests of the national hydraulic elites and the global politics of project finance. This provides a logic for dams that may exacerbate existing geopolitical tensions with Uzbekistan.

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2 April 2012Global Perspectives on Nuclear Safety and Security After 3-11 BY Peter Hayes

The earthquake and tsunami of March 11, 2011 did more than just devastate Japan and unleash a local nuclear disaster. They exposed a host of design flaws in current nuclear technology whose solutions are linked to dramatically unsettling security issues.

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