National Security and Strategic Studies
India’s Internal Security Challenges

(The following is an updated version of Director’s talk on Internal Security given at Defence Services Staff College, Wellington on 06 Mar 2023)

Introduction
In the holistic concept of national security, internal security is a....

Self-Styled ‘Bhindranwale 2.0’: A Troubling Element in Punjab

ਹਿੰਦੂ ਤੁਰਕ ਕੋਊ ਰਾਫਜੀ ਇਮਾਮ ਸਾਫੀ, ਮਾਨਸ ਕੀ ਜਾਤਿ ਸਬੈ ਏਕੈ ਪਹਿਚਾਨਬੋ ॥
[Quote bySri Guru Gobind Singh Ji Maharaj, Tenth Sikh Guru]<....

Could the Reaper Have Been Saved – An Analysis

The Incident
According to "Defense One," two Russian SU-27 aircraft intercepted a U.S. MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicle over the Black Sea on March 14, 2023. Apparently, the interceptors dumped fuel on it and then struck its propellers....

Take Aways from the New IAF Doctrine

The new Indian Air Force doctrine made available in the public domain has gone through various iterations and does incorporate aerospace aspects of the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict also. There has been emphasis on capturing the growing role of aer....

Analysing the Balloon Drift: Another Perspective

Introduction
The US Department of Defense released a photo of the alleged Chinese spy Balloon on February 22. The photo was taken by a U-2 aircraft as it sailed over the balloon on February 3, according to the caption. A U.S. Air F....

Saving the Tiger

The Indian Express reported recently that Project Tiger, which was launched in 1973 to conserve the wild tiger population in India, completes fifty years in 2023. This is a Centrally Sponsored Scheme of the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climat....

Geo-engineering: A Fringe Idea Whose Time Has Come?

Introduction
On 1 October 2022, the US government announced a Five-Year Plan to study the controversial and seemingly sci-fi notion of deflecting the Sun’s rays before they hit Earth in order to temporarily reduce the effects of global wa....

Punjab: Frankenstein amidst Witches Brew

Punjab - the front line border state of India has seen fragility in the 1980’s and 1990’s in the form of a bloody terrorist campaign memories of which returned to haunt with images from Ajnala (near Amritsar) where followers of a radical extremis....

Innovation for Defence Excellence (iDEX): Where do We Stand?

Innovation for Defence Excellence (iDEX) and the Defence India Start-up Challenge (DISC) platforms
The iDEX platform was launched in April 2018 under the DIO (Defence Innovation Organisation) and the aim was for “creation of an ecosyste....

India Launches World’s First Intranasal Anti-Covid Vaccine

On 26th January 27, 2023, Bharat Biotech launched the world’s first intranasal vaccine against Covid 19 in New Delhi. The vaccine uses a modified chimpanzee adenovirus to carry the Covid spike protein and cannot replicate in the body. It was develo....

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