Articles

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....

May 14, 2022 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Article , Ukraine , PGMs , Human Rights , Mariupol , battlespace , logistics planning , political strategy , tanks

IBGs – Need To Survive To Fight Another Day

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

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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....

January 14, 2020 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Article , Missiles , UAVs , IBG , OP PARAKARAM , Cold Start Doctrine , PGMs , PLAAF , PAF