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Drone Terror in India: A Challenge to Deter
July 16, 2021 Saumya Joshi Article

Introduction Presently, drones have become an integral part of military’s arsenal for superpowers, while for others it is just a work in progress. From Yemeni soil against the Saudi oil installations to eliminating a high-ranking servin....

National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence

Tags : Article , UNSC , FATF , Indian Air Force , Jammu , DRDO , Counter terrorism , Drone Terror Attack , Kaluchak Massacre 2002 , Anti-Drone system , Pakistan Sponsored Terrorism
Drone Threat – The Big Picture
July 14, 2021 Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM Article

The media was in frenzy post the drone attack on Jammu Air Force Station on the night of 26/27 Jun 2021. The volcano of breaking news and minute-to-minute reporting was trying to show us the face of danger that awaits us from the little monsters cal....

National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence

Tags : Article , Drone attack , Drone threat , Threat from UAS , Drone countermeasures , Drone threat and countermeasures , Jammu drone attack.
Launch on Demand: Relevance in Future Wars
July 09, 2021 Pushpinder Bath Article

General There are many emerging trends in warfare, which impact the conduct of warfare, security structures and decision-making apparatus. These are driven by technology as well as dynamic strategic considerations. However, three of these ....

National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence

Tags : Article , Launch on Demand (LoD) , Quick Response Mechanism (QRM) , Operationally Responsive Space (ORS) , Micro satellite , Mini satellite , Kuaizhou-1 (KZ-1) , PLA Rocket Force (PLARF) , Anti Satellite (ASAT) , Directed Energy Weapons (DEW) , Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV)
Shooting the ‘Messenger’: How India is tackling the Weaponisation of Social Media
July 08, 2021 Tejusvi Shukla Article

A recent publication of a distorted map of India by Twitter (under its career section “Tweep Live”) sparked a huge controversy.1 After severe backlash, the map was hurriedly taken down, but FIRs have been lodged against Twitter India c....

National Security and Strategic Studies

Tags : Article , Hybrid Warfare , Information Warfare , 5G , Twitter , Facebook , Telegram , Psychological warfare , Social Media Weaponization , Narratives , Cartographic Agression , Clubhouse
Pandemic Factor in Military Organisation
July 05, 2021 Lt Gen Gautam Banerjee Article

Curse of the Pandemic All-pervasive adversities brought about by the Covid-19 Pandemic have occupied, seized in fact, the universal human consciousness in a manner seen never before. That is only to be expected when the Pandemic has turn....

National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence

Tags : Article , Pandemic and military , fallouts of Covid-19 , Pandemic and military administration
Fore-warning that could not be Heeded
June 29, 2021 Lt Gen Gautam Banerjee Article

In mid-April of 2013, with Xi Jinping regime in saddle, the PLA set up a camp nearly 19 kilometres west of the Line of Actual Control (LAC) near the Raki Nala in India’s strategically sensitive Depsang Plains part of Eastern Ladakh. The intrusion c....

National Security and Strategic Studies , Border and Coastal Security

Tags : Article , LAC , Eastern Ladakh , China’s territorial aspirations , PLA intrusions , Raki Nala face-off
Political Initiatives and Peace Building in J & K: The external and Internal Dimensions
June 28, 2021 Lt General S A Hasnain, PVSM, UYSM, AVSM, SM (Bar), VSM (Bar) (Retd.), Distinguished Fellow, VIF Article

India’s political community and leadership has always been bold in experimentation, especially when it comes to J&K. Instances come to mind of past events such as the decision to conduct elections in 1996 when the externally sponsored campaign of t....

Jammu & Kashmir , National Security and Strategic Studies

Tags : Article , Pakistan , J&K , Article 370 , APHC , All party Meet , DDC elections , Hearts and Minds
With Defence Production and Procurement Policies in Place – Are We Headed Correctly?
June 23, 2021 Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM Article

‘Year of Covid’ – an Important Year for Defence Sector The stigma, ‘year of Covid’ notwithstanding, 2020 has been a very important year when it comes to self-reliance in defence and aerospace sector. It was in this year when the....

National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence

Tags : Article , Defence Exports , MSMEs , DAP 2020 , Key Words: DPEPP 2020 , Procurement reforms , rollout of DPEPP and DAP , negative import list
“Indigenize India’s Military Doctrines, Procedures and Customs too”: PM at Kevadia
June 22, 2021 Brig (Dr) Ashok Pathak (Retd.) Article

PM’s Observation that Created the Ripple Effect On 06 March 2021 the Indian Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi delivered the valedictory address to the Combined Commanders’ Conference at Kevadia in Gujarat. He stressed the “importan....

National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence

Tags : Article , military doctrine , Combined Commanders’ Conference March 2021 Kevadia , JIAFD 2017 , Air Land Battle , PLA Informatized war doctrine , IDF Doctrine , Indian Army Doctrine 2005 , Land Warfare Doctrine 2018
The Absence of Air Power in India’s Security Narratives
June 16, 2021 Air Marshal Diptendu Choudhury (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VM, VSM, Distinguished Fellow, VIF Article

India’s security narrative of the region has been largely driven by the coercive diplomacy which China has chosen to pursue as a part of its national security strategy. Border stand offs in Arunachal in the near recent past and Ladakh currently, un....

National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence

Tags : Article , India , China , South China Sea , Air Force , Indian Ocean , PLAAF , Ladakh , Border stand off
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