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Dynamics of Indian Defence Technology- “Indianisation-Indigenisation-Industrialisation-Integration”

The philosophy of approach in military technology is based on concept of purpose, vision of intent, potency in performance, relevancy in role, efficient effectiveness in execution and purposeful in performance. Being maturely Indian in content is w

February 27, 2012 National Security and Strategic Studies, Defence

Dynamics of Indian Defence Technology- “Indianisation-Indigenisation-Industrialisation-Integration”

Vice Admiral (Retd.) Venkat Bharathan

February 27, 2012 National Security and Strategic Studies, Defence

An Indian Cyber Security Mechanism: Need of the Hour

Radhakrishna Rao

Along with outer space, cyber space is slowly but surely emerging as a new frontier of the war. While in a space war, the adversary’s movement can be, to a large extent predicted, with a fairly good degree of certainty and counter measures deploy

February 13, 2012 National Security and Strategic Studies

India’s Defence Production and Research – Need for Transformational up-gradation

Ajit Doval, KC - Former Director, VIF

Early January 2012, the US Defence Department came out with its Strategic Guidance Document, nineteen years after the last was brought out in 1993. Spelling out American “Priorities for 21st Century Defence,” this document delineates the future a

February 06, 2012 National Security and Strategic Studies, Defence

Obama’s New Strategic Guidance Indicates a Shift in Defence Policy

Amb Satish Chandra, Vice Chairman, VIF

The new strategic guidance for the US Department of Defence, issued on January 5^th 2012, in an eight page document entitled “Sustaining US Leadership: Priorities for 21^th Century Defense”, merits careful study. It not only

January 30, 2012 National Security and Strategic Studies, Defence, US

Need to Augment Indian Missile Power

Radhakrishna Rao

The highly disturbed and extremely volatile security environment in India’s neighbourhood underlines the need for India to substantially strengthen its national security apparatus with a range of strategic and tactical battlefield missiles featurin

January 28, 2012 National Security and Strategic Studies, Border and Coastal Security, Defence

Equipping India’s Defence Forces – Need for Transformational Shift

Radhakrishna Rao

That a country, which has successfully accomplished a lunar mission and emerged as a global software and IT hub but continues to meet around 70 percent of its defence requirements through imports can hardly lay claim to the status of a military power

December 30, 2011 National Security and Strategic Studies, Defence

India Should Strengthen Its Maritime Security Architecrure

Radhakrishna Rao

India, as a nation, seems to have gained notoriety for not learning from the past mistakes. Equally glaring is India’s consistent failure to respond to the emerging situations with the speed and seriousness it deserves. And no wonder that the his

December 12, 2011 National Security and Strategic Studies, Border and Coastal Security

Non-Traditional Threats: An Analytical Perspective from South Asia

Brig Vinod Anand, Senior Fellow, VIF

Non-Traditional Security (NTS), and threats to NTS, have gained much greater visibility. While NTS threats definitely qualify as a major component of security research, the scope of the term, and consequent analysis and prescriptions, are extremely w

December 01, 2011 National Security and Strategic Studies, Indo-Pacific

‘Designated Camps’ for the Ceasefire Insurgent Groups: Some QRs

Jaideep Saikia

One of the most important aspects that govern cessation of hostilities by an insurgent group is the anvilling of ground rules that would govern ceasefire and the setting up of “Designated Camps” for the insurgent group. While, it has been seen th

August 09, 2011 North-East Insurgency, National Security and Strategic Studies