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Shooting the ‘Messenger’: How India is tackling the Weaponisation of Social Media

A recent publication of a distorted map of India by Twitter (under its career section “Tweep Live”) sparked a huge controversy.¹ After severe backlash, the map was hurriedly taken down, but FIRs have been lodged against Twitter India c....

July 08, 2021 National Security and Strategic Studies , Article , Hybrid Warfare , Information Warfare , 5G , Twitter , Facebook , Telegram , Psychological warfare , Social Media Weaponization , Narratives , Cartographic Agression , Clubhouse

Cape Town Water Crisis of 2018: Lessons we can learn from it

A serious water crisis plagued the city of Cape Town in early 2018 to the point that it was on the verge of becoming the first modern global city to run out of water. However, the city never reached to that point because of the strict measures introd....

July 06, 2021 National Security and Strategic Studies , Climate Change , water security , Water crisis , Drought , Day Zero , Water Police , Water Management Devices , Cape Town

Pandemic Factor in Military Organisation

Lt Gen Gautam Banerjee, Editor, VIF Article

Curse of the Pandemic

All-pervasive adversities brought about by the Covid-19 Pandemic have occupied, seized in fact, the universal human consciousness in a manner seen never before. That is only to be expected when the Pandemic has turn....

July 05, 2021 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Article , Pandemic and military , fallouts of Covid-19 , Pandemic and military administration

Fore-warning that could not be Heeded

Lt Gen Gautam Banerjee, Editor, VIF Article

In mid-April of 2013, with Xi Jinping regime in saddle, the PLA set up a camp nearly 19 kilometres west of the Line of Actual Control (LAC) near the Raki Nala in India’s strategically sensitive Depsang Plains part of Eastern Ladakh. The intrusion c....

June 29, 2021 National Security and Strategic Studies , Border and Coastal Security , Article , LAC , Eastern Ladakh , China’s territorial aspirations , PLA intrusions , Raki Nala face-off

Political Initiatives and Peace Building in J & K: The external and Internal Dimensions

Lt General S A Hasnain, PVSM, UYSM, AVSM, SM (Bar), VSM (Bar) (Retd.), Distinguished Fellow, VIF Article

India’s political community and leadership has always been bold in experimentation, especially when it comes to J&K. Instances come to mind of past events such as the decision to conduct elections in 1996 when the externally sponsored campaign of t....

June 28, 2021 Jammu & Kashmir , National Security and Strategic Studies , Article , Pakistan , J&K , Article 370 , APHC , All party Meet , DDC elections , Hearts and Minds

With Defence Production and Procurement Policies in Place – Are We Headed Correctly?

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

‘Year of Covid’ – an Important Year for Defence Sector

The stigma, ‘year of Covid’ notwithstanding, 2020 has been a very important year when it comes to self-reliance in defence and aerospace sector. It was in this year when the....

June 23, 2021 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Article , Defence Exports , MSMEs , DAP 2020 , Key Words: DPEPP 2020 , Procurement reforms , rollout of DPEPP and DAP , negative import list

“Indigenize India’s Military Doctrines, Procedures and Customs too”: PM at Kevadia

Brig (Dr) Ashok Pathak (Retd.) Article

PM’s Observation that Created the Ripple Effect

On 06 March 2021 the Indian Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi delivered the valedictory address to the Combined Commanders’ Conference at Kevadia in Gujarat. He stressed the “importan....

June 22, 2021 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Article , military doctrine , Combined Commanders’ Conference March 2021 Kevadia , JIAFD 2017 , Air Land Battle , PLA Informatized war doctrine , IDF Doctrine , Indian Army Doctrine 2005 , Land Warfare Doctrine 2018

Vimarsha: "Shaping the Armed Forces to meet likely Current and Future Challenges", by General BipinRawat, Chief of Defence Staff.

Under the Vimarsha series of lectures organized by the VIF on 07 April 2021,General Bipin Rawat, PVSM, UYSM, AVSM, YSM, SM, VSM, ADC, Chief of Defence Staff spoke on 'Shaping the Armed Forces to meet likely Current and Future Challenges'. It was foll....

June 20, 2021 Vimarsh , National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , artificial intelligence , CDS , Military diplomacy , Hybrid wars

The Absence of Air Power in India’s Security Narratives

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

India’s security narrative of the region has been largely driven by the coercive diplomacy which China has chosen to pursue as a part of its national security strategy. Border stand offs in Arunachal in the near recent past and Ladakh currently, un....

June 16, 2021 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Article , India , China , South China Sea , Air Force , Indian Ocean , PLAAF , Ladakh , Border stand off

Interaction between UK’s Chief of Defence and the Vivekananda International Foundation on UK’s “Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Development and Foreign Policy”.

On 21 April 2021, Vivekananda International Foundation members had a virtual Interaction with UK’s Chief of Defence Staff General Sir Nicholas PatrickCarter, GCB, CBE, DSO, ADC Gen. The interaction was focussed on the Indo-Pacific security and UK�....

June 14, 2021 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Interaction , foreign policy , UK , CDS. Indo-Pacific