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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)

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

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

PM’s call at Kevadia – What is the ‘Big Picture’?

May 21, 2021 Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM Article

Ever since the PM addressed the Combined Commanders Conference in Kevadia on 06 March 2021 the media has been picking up bits and pieces of his address and pitching it as ‘stand-alone agendas’ complete with all the semantics aimed to sensationali....

National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence

Tags : Article , R & D , Defence Exports , Combined Commanders' Conference , imports , military doctrine , OFB , PM's message , weapons & equipment

COVID-19 Pandemic and Indian Armed Forces

May 05, 2021 Lt Gen (Dr) Rakesh Sharma (Retd.), Distinguished Fellow, VIF Article

The traditional Tamil treatise, Thirukkural, written over 2,000 years ago had defined a nations’ characteristics, "Pini inmai Selvam Vilaivinbam Emam, aniyenba Nattirkiv vainthu," implying that, "the important elements that constitute a n....

National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence

Tags : Article , Armed forces , COVID-19 , AMC , medical staff , logistics control centres , National and State Crisis Response Centres