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June 2023 – Space Lusitania: India-Pakistan
Readings and Videos

  • “Is China’s Korla laser ASAT site hacking Western satellites?” by Andrew Salerno-Garthwaite, Army Technology, May 1, 2023.

  • “India’s space policy and national security posture: what can we expect?,” by Namrata Goswami, The Space Review, April 24, 2023.

  • “China Prioritizes 3 Strategic Technologies in Its Great Power Competition,” by Namrata Goswami, The Diplomat, April 22, 2023.

  • “Space Force crafting framework for commercial fleet access in a crisis,” by Courtney Albion, C4ISRNET, April 20, 2023.

  • “Space Threat Assessment 2023,” by Kari A. Bingen, Kaitlyn Johnson, Makena Young, and John Raymond, Center for Strategic & International Studies, April 14, 2023.

  • “India needs a military-space doctrine, must bet big on private sector firms,” by Manvendra Singh, The Print, April 13, 2023.

  • “‘Absolutely critical’ to get DARC space situational system to Australia: Space Forces Indo-Pacific head,” by Colin Clark, Breaking Defense, April 7, 2023.

  • “Global Counterspace Capabilities: An Open Source Assessment,” by Brian Weeden and Victoria Samson, Secure World Foundation, April 2023.

  • “SpaceX rocket launches Space Development Agency’s first satellites,” by Courtney Albon, C4ISRNET, April 2, 2023.

  • “What Chinese Violation of U.S. Airspace Means for U.S. Space Force Plans and Policies, ” by Mark Albrecht, Real Clear Defense, March 27, 2023

  • “Clearing the Air: India Progresses Counter-UAV Capability,” by Oishee Majumdar, Jane’s Defence Weekly, March 10, 2023.

  • “Three rules for peace in orbit in the new space era,” by Brian Chow and Brandon Kelley, The Space Review, February 27, 2023.

  • “Space Force may hire companies to service orbiting satellites,” by Courtney Albon, C4ISRNET, February 22, 2023.

  • “Military to tap commercial industry for ‘space mobility’ services,” by Sandra Erwin, Space News, February 21, 2023.

  • “Space Force considers public-private partnerships to respond to crises,” by Sandra Erwin, Space News, February 20, 2023.

  • “Pre-ministerial press conference,” by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg ahead of the meetings of NATO Defence Ministers, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, February 13, 2023.

  • “Military Space: There’s More To Resilience Than Building Better Satellites,” by Loren Thompson, Forbes, February 9, 2023.

  • “Enter the Hunter Satellites Preparing for Space War,” by Mark Harris, Wired, February 1, 2023.

  • “FACT SHEET: United States and India Elevate Strategic Partnership with the initiative on Critical and Emerging Technology (iCET),” The White House, January 31, 2023.

  • “Defence Drone policies in India,” By Vaibhav Tomar, Modern Diplomacy, January 2, 2023.

  • “Congress MP raises concern over drones from Pakistan,” The Economic Times, December 21, 2022.

  • “Indian Space Force: A Strategic Inevitability,” by Ajey Lele, Space Policy, December 2022, pp. 7-12.

  • “Agni Prime and the Two-Front War,” by Ali Ahmed, South Asian Voices, November 14, 2022.

  • “A review of Chinese counterspace activities,” by Matthew Mowthorpe and Markos Trichas, The Space Review, August 1, 2022.

  • “Russia-Ukraine War: Lessons for South Asia,” by Maimuna Ashraf, South Asian Voices, May 25, 2022.

  • “How to Deal with the Risk of Nuclear Escalation in South Asia,” by Sameer P. Lalwani, Ph.D., United States Institute of Peace, May 17, 2022.

  • “Pakistan’s Need for Defensive Space Capabilities,” by Noor-Ul-Huda Atif, The Defence Horizon Journal, April 22, 2023.

  • “Devising National Space Policy in Pakistan,” by Mohammad Ali Zafar and Ayesha Zafar, Aether: a Journal of Strategic Airpower and Spacepower, Winter 2022.

  • “The Crisis after the Crisis: How Ladakh will Shape India’s Competition with China,” by Arzan Tarapore, Lowy Institute, May 2021.

  • “South Asian Strategic Stability: Deterrence, Nuclear Weapons and Arms Control,” by Lieutenant General (Retd) Khalid Kidwai and Desmond Bowen, IISS, February 6, 2020.

  • “Commitment Traps Make Kashmir De-escalation Tricky,” by Frank O’Donnell and Debalina Ghoshal, East Asia Forum, March 3, 2019

  • “Space Programs of India and Pakistan: Military and Strategic Installations in Outer Space and Precarious Regional Strategic Stability,” by Mian Zahid Hussain and Raja Qaiser Ahmed, Space Policy 47 (Feb 2019), pp. 63, 72-74.

  • “Tracing the Pakistan–Terrorism Nexus in Indian Security Perspectives: From 1947 to 26/11,” by Chris Ogden, India Quarterly, 2013.

  • “Lashkar-e-Taiba: From 9/11 to Mumbai,” by Stephen Tankel, The International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence April/May 2009

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