This work analyses the recent statement of the Defence Minister wherein, on 04 Oct 2024, while speaking at the 7th Annual General Meeting of the Society of Indian Defence Manufacturers (SIDM), the Minister stated the Govt is committed to make defence....
It was in the post-1962 period that the shape of India’s indigenous system of national defence began shaping-up – at the intervention of Communist China. That was when after centuries of strategic quarantine from real-politics, free India’s ide....
Tags : Article , Military security in Viksit Bharat , curative ventures in military management , blending hoary warrior culture with indigenisation
India aspires to be and is steadily on the way to be a developed nation by 2047, and to which end, Viksit Bharat and Surakshit Bharat (Prosperous India, Secure India) are wheels of the same chariot, being driven in the same direction. I....
Tags : Article , China , GDP , LAC , Ladakh , buffer zones , Viksit Bharat , friction points , PLA Surakshi Bharat
(Title of the article is taken from the Statement made by Raksha Mantri Shri Rajnath Singh at the Joint Commanders Conference in Lucknow, on 05 Sep 2024.) Wars have remained ageless, timeless and a dynamic paradox, though they are messy, w....
Tags : Article , India , Pakistan , China , C4ISR , Battlefield transparency , combat military capabilities , Kill Web
Reports emanating from the Joint Commanders Conference (JCC) held at Lucknow on 04-05 September 2024 suggest that a blueprint for the proposed Integrated Theatre Commands (ITC) has been formulated by the services and presented to the Raksha Mantri (R....
Tags : Article , PLA , Raksha Mantri , Integrated Theatre Commands , Joint Commanders Conference , Joint Logistics Nodes , Theatrisation
The Indian Air Force (IAF) has hosted the largest-ever International Air Exercise that mainland Asia has seen in over six decades. Participants in the Exercise ‘Tarang Shakti’ (Wave Power)-2024 included ten countries as active participant....
Tags : Article , Indian Air Force , Tarang Shakti , Air power in regional security , Collective approach to creating deterrence , China air power intimidation , India key role consolidating regional air security
The Kargil war of 1999 was not just a conflict between two traditional rivals but a major direct confrontation between two nuclear powers that had defied global norms by conducting nuclear tests. This saga was catalysed by technological achievements,....
Tags : Commentary , Israel , technology , surveillance , Intelligence , Kargil War
A lot has been written of Indian Military’s ongoing modernisation and transformation, both terms used interchangeably. Truth is these terms differ in their purpose and impact, magnitude and scope. Military modernisation refers to acquisitions of m....
Tags : Article , PLA , Army Modernisation , ISR , Satellite , EW , military transformation , Operational readiness , system destruction
India's approach to soldier recruitment has undergone significant transformations since the British Raj to adapt to changing security needs. Post-independence, India moved away from regional and caste-based recruitment towards an All-India, All-Class....
Tags : Article , skill development , Kargil Review Committee , Agniveers , Agnipath , Central Armed Police Forces , Integrated Manpower policies , lateral entry , younger military
In 1942 Quincy Wright wrote in A Study of War, that to different people war may have different meanings. While Brittanica Encyclopaedia states that war, in the popular sense, is a conflict between political groups involving hostilities of cons....
Tags : Article , India , China , Conflict , PLA , Ladakh , Kargil , NCW , Russia Ukraine war , Clausewitz