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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
महामारी के समय राष्ट्रीय आपदा प्रबंधन प्राधिकरण को क्रियाशील करने की जरूरत
Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF Article

भारत इस समय अभूतपूर्व स्तर पर स्वास्थ्य आपात स्थिति का सामना कर रहा है। कोविड -19 महामारी अब तक 250,00....

June 09, 2021 National Security and Strategic Studies , Disaster Management , Article , COVID-19 , NDMA , MHA , DDMA , SDMA , आपदा प्रबंधन अधिनियम
Left-Wing Extremism: Contained but Continues to Exist
Tejusvi Shukla Article

Based on an intelligence input on the night of 02 April 2021, over 2000 security forces’ (SFs) personnel carried out a major anti-Naxal operation in the Sukma-Bijapur area in Chhattisgarh. However, the anti-Naxal operation soon turned to a “surpr....

June 08, 2021 Leftwing Extremism , National Security and Strategic Studies , Article , national security , Internal Security , insurgency , Maoism , poverty , Naxalism , Red Terror , Urban Naxals , Inequality , Bastar , Abhujmad , Tribal
Water Security as Part of Non-Traditional Security: Threat - Implications for India
Maj Gen P K Mallick, VSM (Retd)

… it would be important for the Indian government to assess how China could ‘weaponize’ its control over trans-boundary waters and potentially ‘choke’ the Indian economy … there are different opinions about the impact of the proposed dams....

June 02, 2021 National Security and Strategic Studies , water security , Asian water scarcity , Water sources and consumption in Asia , The Tibetan water reservoir , China’s water management policy
Covid Pandemic and the Armed Forces
Lt Gen (Dr) Rakesh Sharma (Retd.), Distinguished Fellow, VIF

The armed forces are actively involved in the national effort of dealing with the second wave of covid pandemic which has wreaked havoc on the entire nation. Join Lt Gen (Dr) Rakesh Sharma, PVSM, UYSM, AVSM, VSM, (Retd) and Shashank Sharma for a disc....

June 01, 2021 National Security and Strategic Studies , Indian Army , Indian Armed Forces , Indian Navy , Indian Airforce , Podcast , COVID Pandemic , Humanitarian Assistance , Disaster Relief
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