Articles

Climate Change: A Review of 2024 and Projections for 2025

Heena Samant, Research Associate, VIF Article

State of the global climate in 2024

From global average temperature to greenhouse gas emissions, records have already been broken yet again in 2024. The impact of this was felt in the increasing frequency and intensity of extreme weather ....

January 23, 2025 National Security and Strategic Studies , Climate Change , Article , Floods , heatwaves , Negotiations , climate finance , loss and damage , Extreme weather events , Fossil fuels

Year 2024 : Many Accomplishments Achieved by India in the Strategic Domain

Dr Ramanand Garge Article

January 26, the largest democracy of the world celebrates its 75th Republic Day in 2024 and 75th year of Independence in 2022. Since 1947 after carving out its rightful place in the world India has emerged as a prominent entity at regional as well as....

January 09, 2025 Leftwing Extremism , National Security and Strategic Studies , Article , India , national security , Left Wing Extremism , Year review 2024 , Strategic domain of India , Maritime India

The Intersection of Conflict Economy and Narco-Terrorism: Fuelling Violence

Major Namrata Dhasmana (Retd) Commentary

The toxic nexus of narco-terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir intersecting the conflict....

January 06, 2025 Terrorism , National Security and Strategic Studies , Commentary , Violence , drug trafficking , Narco Terrorism , Conflict Economy

The Growing Problem of Digital Arrest Scams in Bharat

Anurag Sharma, Associate Fellow, VIF Article

“‘Stop’, then ‘Think’, and then take ‘Action’; these three steps will become the protector of your digital security.” ^[1] - Narendra Modi, Prime Mi....

November 26, 2024 National Security and Strategic Studies , Cyber Security , Article , India , AP internal security , Cyber Security , cyber crime , Bharat , Cyber , Digital Security , Digital Arrest , Digital Scam

Maoists Resurface in Karnataka

Dr P V Ramana Commentary

Naxalites of the Communist Party of Maoist [CPI (Maoist)], Maoists in short, seem to be resurfacing in Karnataka. The killing in an encounter of Vikram Gowda, on November 18, 2024, in Eedu village, Karkala taluk of Udupi district, further confirms t....

November 25, 2024 Leftwing Extremism , National Security and Strategic Studies , Commentary , Karnataka , Maoists. Naxalites , CPI , Communist Party of Maoist , Maoist area

Swami Vivekananda on Human and Non-Traditional Security

Swami Vivekananda’s concept of security was deeply holistic, encompassing the physical, emotional, and spiritual aspects of human life. He believed that genuine security could not be attained solely through material wealth or physical protection; i....

November 22, 2024 National Security and Strategic Studies , Historical and Civilisational Studies , Security , Human Security , Non-Traditional Security , Swami Vivekanada.

The Naga Issue: The Grandstanding by Muivah

Lt Gen PC Nair, PVSM, AVSM, YSM, PhD, (Retd) Article

On 8th November 2024, the General Secretary of NSCN-IM, Thuingaleng Muivah created a buzz by declaring that the GoI has betrayed the letter and spirit behind the Framework Agreement of Aug 2015. In his statement he has sought a third-party interventi....

November 20, 2024 National Security and Strategic Studies , Article , Manipur , Chinese influence , Framework Agreement , Muivah , Naga insurgency , NSCN-IM

An Analytical Review of India’s Defence Exports

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

This work analyses the recent statement of the Defence Minister wherein, on 04 Oct 2024, while speaking at the 7th Annual General Meeting of the Society of Indian Defence Manufacturers (SIDM), the Minister stated the Govt is committed to make defence....

November 12, 2024 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Article , Indian defence industry , Defence Exports , RM at 7th AGM of SIDM

Viksit Bharat: Bracing for Strategic Contestations: Political Management of India’s Military Institution

Lt Gen Gautam Banerjee Article

It was in the post-1962 period that the shape of India’s indigenous system of national defence began shaping-up – at the intervention of Communist China. That was when after centuries of strategic quarantine from real-politics, free India’s ide....

November 06, 2024 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Article , Military security in Viksit Bharat , curative ventures in military management , blending hoary warrior culture with indigenisation

Does India Need a Strategy of Strategies?

Air Marshal Diptendu Choudhury (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VM, VSM, Distinguished Fellow, VIF Article

As the India and China have finally reached a deal on patrolling their disputed frontier to end a four-year long military stand-off to pave way for resetting the political and business ties between the Asian giants, there is understandably a sudden s....

October 30, 2024 National Security and Strategic Studies , Article , India , China , IOR , Bhagavad Gita , Kautilya , Grand strategy , Raj Dharma , Tejastejasvinamaham