Indigenisation: A New Awakening- Where are We Headed?
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Is India Ready to Adapt to the Impacts of Extreme Weather Events?
Introduction
From March to April this year, India experienced an unprecedented heatwave with many places in northern India recording temperature in excess of 45°C over extended periods of time. In all, 15 states and Union Territories (UT) ....June 02, 2022 National Security and Strategic Studies , Climate Change , Article , Extreme weather events , Heatwave , Nature-based Solutions (NbS) , IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (AR6)
Transforming-transformation into neo-Army
The essence of transformation in the military is to create a marked change in its character or form – mostly for the better, and moving away from the legacy systems. Normally this transforming transformation perspective is relevant to ‘how we wil....
May 31, 2022 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Commentary , Army , AIAC , Recruitable Male Population (RMP) , regiments
Russia’s Military Understanding of Air Power: Structural & Doctrinal Aspects
The fog of war continues to hangover Ukraine even after eighty days, especially with facts difficult to discern amongst the information war running in parallel, biased reportage, and contradictory narratives based on the wide swath of international p....
May 23, 2022 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Article , Russia , Air defence , S-400 , Ukraine , Air Power , SAM , VKS , Aleksandr Zelin , MANPADS , SEAD , Sergey Shoigu , VVS
A Compendium of Terrorist Groups
The last three decades has seen the South and West Asian regions turning into a hot bed of terror activities. Spreading from these regions, and alongside by many other isolated areas across the globe, terrorism today has become the biggest threat to ....
May 17, 2022 Terrorism , National Security and Strategic Studies , Counter-terrorism , Compendium , Terror Groups , Terror activities
Learning to Win Wars, Not Just Battles!
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
Watershed- How We Destroyed India’s Water and We Can Save it? | Author- Mridula Ramesh, Hachette INDIA, 2021, Gurugram: ISBN 978-93-91028-68-8 415 pp, price- 699 Rupees
Water is not an infinite resource. It has no substitute. At present, there is a need for acknowledging this reality with certitude across the world. Globally, at present 2.3 billion people live in water-stressed countries, out of which 733 million pe....
May 06, 2022 National Security and Strategic Studies , Climate Change , Book Reviews
Discussion with Chairman DRDO on Self Reliance in Defence Technologies
VIF organised a round table discussion among Dr G Satheesh Reddy, the Secretary, Department of Defence R&D and Chairman DRDO (Defence Research and Development Organisation), the strategic community and representatives from the private Indian defence ....
May 03, 2022 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Interaction , DRDO , Self Reliance , R&D , Ministry of Defence , Defence Technologies , Transfer of Technology
War in Ukraine: Are Russia’s Cyber Warfare Capabilities Overhyped?
Introduction. Since the early 90s, experts have been saying that the next war will be fought in cyberspace. A ‘cyber Pearl Harbour’ would meltdown government systems, cripple critical infrastructure and plunge modern militaries and societ....
May 02, 2022 National Security and Strategic Studies , Cyber Security , Article , Cyber Attack , Cyber warfare , Cyber Strategy , Cyber Defense
Ukraine: How is the Air and Air Defence War Unfolding ?
A Sequel
This work is the sequel to the author’s earlier work titled, “Why the Ukrainian skies are still contested” available at www.vifindia.org[1]. Building on the thread of the earlie....April 21, 2022 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Article , Russo-Ukrainian war , Air war in Ukraine , Russia’s air war
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