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Learning to Win Wars, Not Just Battles!
May 14, 2022 Lt Gen (Dr) Rakesh Sharma (Retd.), Distinguished Fellow, VIF Article

The Russo-Ukraine War 2022 has clearly indicated that warfare is changing at dramatic rate and scope and historical similarities might not provide any guidance to the future ones. Our experience of past wars would be divorced from realities of 21st C....

National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence

Tags : Article , Ukraine , PGMs , Human Rights , Mariupol , battlespace , logistics planning , political strategy , tanks
Ukraine: How is the Air and Air Defence War Unfolding ?
April 21, 2022 Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM Article

A Sequel This work is the sequel to the author’s earlier work titled, “Why the Ukrainian skies are still contested” available at www.vifindia.org[1]. Building on the thread of the earlie....

National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence

Tags : Article , Russo-Ukrainian war , Air war in Ukraine , Russia’s air war
Russia-Ukraine War: A Game of Vain Military Venture?
March 28, 2022 Lt Gen Gautam Banerjee Article

Military Theories Unheeded Traditionally, over the centuries, the Russians have been the pioneers of original military strategic thinking. Even the world’s leading military thinkers, mainly the Prussians/Germans and British, have been ....

National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence

Tags : Article , Russia-Ukraine War , obdurate expansionism , the blunder of Ukraine War , killing fields of Ukraine , bleeding Ukraine for selfish agenda , wanton destruction
Why the Ukrainian Skies are still Contested- An Assessment
March 24, 2022 Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM Article

The posers that demand an answer:- This work attempts an answer to the following posers in the context of the on-going air war between Russia and Ukraine:- How the forces measured up on both sides? How come till date, a....

International Relations and Diplomacy , Defence

Tags : Article , Russo-Ukraine war , Russian air power , Ukraine air war , air battle in Ukrainian skies , Russian air campaign
India: Gearing Up for National Defence
March 19, 2022 Lt Gen Gautam Banerjee Article

Covenant of Defence Modernisation In a welcome change from the past, particularly in the post-Doklam 2017 period, the nation is witnessing a coalescence of sensitivities on matters of national defence. This is a welcome attitudinal change ....

National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence

Tags : Article , Defence modernisation , competency of defence preparedness , roots of military deficits , ideating defence policies , principle of ‘military necessity’ , deterring neighbourhood aggression
Cruise Missiles : where are we ? Where are our Potential Adversaries? What way ahead?
February 23, 2022 Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM

The Trigger Event The morning chill on the 21stof Jan 22 got broken with a ‘warm’ news from the DRDO announcing the successful test firing of the Brahmos supersonic cruise missile from its test range in Odisha. While many will see th....

National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence

Tags : BrahMos , Babur , cruise missiles , Nirbhay , Chinese cruise missile threat , Pakistan cruise missile threat
Making a Sense of Chinese Hypersonic Threat- The Big Picture
January 28, 2022 Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM Article

Hypersonic Weapons – ‘the New Age Arsenal’ Hypersonic weapons are ‘big news’ these days. One of the virtues that has propelled these so called ‘new age weapons’ to high eminence is the claim that these are ‘unstoppable’ ....

National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence

Tags : Article , Chinese threat , hypersonic missiles , Chinese hypersonic threat , Chinese missile threat
Defence Exports: Challenges, Opportunities and Imperatives
October 06, 2021 Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM Article

Premise This work is based on the premise that the current level of defence exports in India is well short of its stipulated targets and there is a need for revamping the same. Layout The analysis is laid out as under:- ....

National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence

Tags : Article , Defence Exports , DPEPP 2020 , India’s export targets , Export promotion , boosting defence exports
Corporatisation of Ordnance Factory Board –An Analysis
August 13, 2021 Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM Article

A Bold Decision – Govt Walks the Talk Something big happened on 16 June 2021. In a run time of less than a year from first open announcement, the Govt of India has gone ahead to approve the Corporatisation of the Ordnance Factory Board ....

National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence

Tags : Article , Corporatisation of OFB , OFB makeover , OFB transformation , Govt announces corporatisation , OFB workers go on strike
Eastern Ladakh – In Focus Again!
July 19, 2021 Lt Gen (Dr) Rakesh Sharma (Retd.), Distinguished Fellow, VIF Article

With a meeting of the EAM Jaishankar with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi, Eastern Ladakh has come in focus again. Most information and analysis of the events in Eastern Ladakh of 2020 and the first half of 2021 have been analysed in fine detail, an....

National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence

Tags : Article , PLA , LAC , Ladakh , Galwan , Pangong Tso , Kailash Range , media centre
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