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No 12 | Mar 2008
ALSO
ISSN 0973-8460
 
Contents
PERSPECTIVE
2
Strategic depth vs strategic
Vanni Cappelli 
breadth
America needs to reframe its strategic approach to the region
4
No anomaly in the shortage
Nitin Pai &
Sushant K Singh
Why India needs to move towards more capital-intensive armedforces
6
Securing space on the table
 Adityanjee
Responding to a new strategic arms race
FILTER
9
On Kosovo; Four stages of a jihadi; Maoists strike in Bhutan;India’s foreign technical aid and loans
IN PARLIAMENT
10
PRS Legislative Research: Budget Session 2008
IN DEPTH
11
Minimum government,
 
 Mukul G Asher 
maximum governance
The Gujarat model of governance holds lessons for the rest of India
ROUNDUP
15
Pinnacle of cynicism
V Anantha Nageswaran
This year’s Union budget takes us back to the bad days of the 70sand 80s
17
Futures for farmers
Karthik Shashidhar 
Good futures markets are essential for farmers’ welfare
19
Advani’s economic agenda
 Atanu Dey 
The importance of getting it right
BOOKS
21
Confessions of a retailer
Ravikiran Rao
A review of Kishore Biyani’s book,
It happened in India
 
Pragati
The Indian National Interest Review 
 
No 12 | March 2008
Published by
The Indian National Interest
- an independentcommunity of individuals committed to increasing public awarenessand education on strategic affairs, economic policy and governance.
 
Advisory Panel
Mukul G AsherV Anantha NageswaranSameer WagleSameer JainAmey V Laud
Editor
Nitin Pai
Editorial Support
Priya KadamChandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan
Acknowledgements
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AFGHANISTAN & PAKISTAN
Strategic depth vs strategic breadth
 America needs to reframe its strategic approach to the region
VANNI CAPPELLI
IN MID-FEBRUARY, as repeated suicide bombingspunctuated open discussions among governmentsand in the media of the possibility that the interna-tional mission in Afghanistan could end in failure-- with all that would mean for the security of In-dia, the United States, and the world—two promi-nent individuals made remarks that were espe-cially revealing. The comments on the crisis by theformer high representative for Bosnia Paddy Ash-down and the American Defence Secretary RobertGates were emblematic, as they demonstrated thatthe international community is failing in South-Central Asia as a whole because it does not under-stand the nature of the conflict it is engaged in.Writing in the
Financial Times
after his rejectionfor the post of United Nations special envoy inAfghanistan by President Hamid Karzai, Mr Ash-down lamented that “With fighting in Afghanistannow entering its seventh year … defeat is now areal possibility.” The consequences of this he fore-saw as “global terrorism would have won back itsold haven and created a new one over the borderin a mortally weakened Pakistan.” Quoting SunTzu, the ancient Chinese military strategist, MrAshdown affirmed that the problem lies in the factthat the Afghan venture is comprised of a series of tactical moves, with no grand strategy. This hesuggested might come in the form of doing a bet-ter job of integrating military and civilian efforts ina way that involves the Afghans more, in order toenhance their security, governance, and the rule of law.That Mr Ashdown states that the fighting inAfghanistan is entering its seventh year when it
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