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West Asia and the Case of Measured and Controlled Escalation: A Trend in Future Warfare

On the night of 13/14 April 2024 Iran launched an unprecedented 170 drones, 30 cruise missiles and 120-130 ballistic missiles against Israel. Iran stated that bombardment was in response to the 01 April 2024 air strike on the Iranian consulate...

Neighborhood News Digest- 05 April 2024

Afghanistan Amnesty International Asks Pakistan to Reverse Refugees Expulsion Plan-Tolo News Amnesty International has called for the immediate cancellation of the plan to expel Afghan migrants from Pakistan through a statement. The organization...

Neighborhood News Digest- 22 March 2024

Afghanistan Explosion in first district of Kandahar city leaves 21 dead, 50 injured-The Khama Press According to sources from Mirwais Hospital in Kandahar, Afghanistan, it was claimed that in the explosion on Thursday in the first district of this...

Ongoing Russia-Ukraine War 2022-2024: Battleground of Adaptations and Innovations

The war that commenced on 24 February 2022 between Ukraine and Russia, has limited parallels with the ongoing war! The sheer dynamism in adaptation, by initiative, ingenuity and vitality of the battleground and industrial interface, is a lesson by...

Science and Technology (S&T) Digest 16-31 December 2023, Issue 28

In this Issue I. Defence and Security INS Imphal, Stealth Guided Missile Destroyer, Commissioned Induction of MCA Barge, LSAM 10 (Yard 78) Delivery of Seventh 250 Men Ferrycraft, ‘Manjula’ (Yard 786) to IN Inauguration of New Design & Test...

Contemporary Land-Centric Operational Environment: Need for Dynamism and Adaptability

It was half a decade ago, when the ‘strategic community’ commonly opined that conventional wars were passe, and if and when future wars did occur, they would ‘likely to be ambiguous, uncertain, short, swift, lethal, intense, precise, non-linear,...

Swamitva Yojana: Another Crucial Instrument of Rural Empowerment in India

The Government of India launched the Swamitva Yojana, also known as the "Survey of Villages and Mapping with Improvised Technology in Village Areas" scheme. With the intention of giving rural property owners legal papers and facilitating the...

VIF News Digest: National Security - Defence Studies & Terrorism, (16-30 Jun 2023)

Defence Raksha Mantri (RM) to hold talks with Vietnam’s Minister of National Defence in New Delhi. MoD to hold two-day ‘Chintan Shivir’. Multinational Peacekeeping Joint Exercise “Ex Khaan Quest 2023”. India-United States Defence Acceleration...

Neighbourhood News Digest - 15 June 2023

Afghanistan Pakistan Deports More Than 530 Afghan Refugees to Afghanistan - Latestly After the Taliban assumed power in August 2021, thousands of Afghans fearing persecution and death threats fled Afghanistan and entered neighboring nations like...

Drone Threat is Real: India Needs a Comprehensive Counter Drone Strategy

The Drone Threat Unmanned vehicles, referred to as drones in this paper for ease, are unquestionably useful, but the problem is that this is true even for bad guys. The million-dollar question in the billion-dollar unmanned industry is how to stop...

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