Articles | Vivekananda International Foundation

Challenges of Building Disaster Resilient Indian Smart Cities

March 12, 2020 Dr Swati Mitra Article

March, 8, 2020: The world is gripped with the fear of COVID-19, including India. December 9, 2019: More 42 people killed in the Delhi Fire incident July 16, 2019: Building collapses in India’s Maximum City Mumbai killing 7 and trappin....

National Security and Strategic Studies , Disaster Management

Tags : Article , Smart City , Japanese Smart City , Singapore Smart City , Indian Smart City Concept

Cyber Wargame - An Indian Scenario

March 02, 2020 Maj Gen P K Mallick, VSM (Retd) Article

Introduction Immediately after the first gulf war in the early 1990’s the theories of Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA) and Information Warfare were being studied all over the world as a new kind of warfare. During that time, a cours....

National Security and Strategic Studies , Cyber Security

Tags : Article , RMA , Cyber Wars , STUXNET , Indian scenario , cyber breach , cyber defence planning

Creating an Effective CDS for India’s National Defence

February 13, 2020 VIF Study Group Report Article

Background Nearly two decades after submission of the Kargil Review Committee (KRC) report in 1999, the Group of Ministers (GOM) Report in 2001 and recommendations of the Naresh Chandra Task Force in 2012, the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS)....

National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence

Tags : Article , CDS , Govt CDS initiative , Guidelines on CDS function , MoD reforms

Pegasus— A Powerful Tool of WhatsApp Surveillance

February 05, 2020 Anurag Sharma, Associate Fellow, VIF Article

The Facebook’s subsidiary company—WhatsApp, on 29 October 2019, filed a lawsuit in the United States California’s Northern District Federal Court against Israel-based cyber-arms1 firm— the NSO Group, for infecting ‘specific’ gr....

National Security and Strategic Studies , Cyber Security

Tags : Article , Israel , India , technology , Pegasus , WhatsApp , CyberEspionage , CyberSurveillance , NationalSecurity , Malware , Spoofing

Shielding the Future Generation from Adverse Effects of Cyber Penetration

February 04, 2020 Brig Vinod Anand, Senior Fellow, VIF Article

(This is an updated version of the Valedictory Address given by the author during the Responsible Netism 4th National Cyber Psychology Conference 2020 on ‘Child Online Protection’ organized by Ahaan Foundation and Cyber Peace Foundation at Pun....

National Security and Strategic Studies , Cyber Security

Tags : Article , cyber crime , cyber bullying , grooming , POSCO. IT Act , Internet Addiction , Cyber games , parental guidance

Terrorism and Counter Terrorism: Review of Year 2019 and Projections for 2020

January 22, 2020 Anurag Sharma, Associate Fellow, VIF Article

The year 2019 had significant developments in global terrorism. The review covers the important activities of terrorism and counter-terrorism (CT) around the globe. There have been ongoing conflicts in Iraq, Syria and Yemen which includes terrorist a....

Terrorism , National Security and Strategic Studies

Tags : Article , India , Pakistan , national security , Counter-terrorism , Afghanistan , Terrorism , Srilanka , al-Qaeda , UnitedKingdom , IslamicState , al-Qaida

Air Defence Command – Some Salient Aspects

January 17, 2020 Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM Article

The newly appointed Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) in his very first meeting after taking over on 01 Jan 2020, has directed Headquarters Integrated Defence Staff (IDS) to prepare a proposal by 30 Jun 2020 for the creation of Air Defence Command (ADC) b....

National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence

Tags : Article , Air Threat , CDS , Air Defence Command , Vulnerable Areas , Vulnerable Points , TBA , Integrated Air Command & Control System , Air Defence Battle

India`s Chief of Defence Staff: Some Issues to be Resolved

January 16, 2020 Gautam Sen Commentary

Government of India has created the institution of Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) as a single point adviser to Raksha Mantri (RM) on all matters concerning the Defence Services of the country and as Secretary of a newly created Department of Military A....

National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence

Tags : Commentary , CDS , DMA , Revenue budget , Capital budget , DOD , Principal Advisor , Acquisition Plans

IBGs – Need To Survive To Fight Another Day

January 14, 2020 Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM Article

Premise It was reported in Nov 2019, that after having tested the Integrated Battle Group (IBG) concept (explained later) both in the Western, as well as, the Eastern theatre, the Indian Army will be operationalising the IBGs in the field....

National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence

Tags : Article , Missiles , UAVs , IBG , OP PARAKARAM , Cold Start Doctrine , PGMs , PLAAF , PAF

2019 में विश्व परमाणु व्यवस्था: समीक्षा

January 14, 2020 Dr Kapil Patil Article

वर्ष 2019 के दौरान विश्व परमाणु व्यवस्था में दो महत्वपूर्ण रुझान दिखे हैं - परमाणु अस्त्रों का प्र....

National Security and Strategic Studies

Tags : Hindi , Article , Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty , START , North Korea Nuclear missiles , New START NPT , परमाणु अस्त्र