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PM’s call at Kevadia – What is the ‘Big Picture’?
Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM Article

Ever since the PM addressed the Combined Commanders Conference in Kevadia on 06 March 2021 the media has been picking up bits and pieces of his address and pitching it as ‘stand-alone agendas’ complete with all the semantics aimed to sensationali....

May 21, 2021 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Article , R & D , Defence Exports , Combined Commanders' Conference , imports , military doctrine , OFB , PM's message , weapons & equipment
Introduction to India’s Strategic Thinking and its Determinants

The VIF organized the third series of lectures on India’s national security and strategic culture from 12 to 14 October 2020 in a virtual mode in continuation of the initiative taken in the previous year. The webinar enabled young students, academi....

May 20, 2021 National Security and Strategic Studies , Seminars , Climate Change , Indian Economy , Article 370 , Indian Strategic Thinking , India foreign policy , COVID-19 , Civilizational state
Release of ‘Forgotten Kashmir: The Other Side of the Line of Control’ by Shri Manoj Sinha, Lt. Governor of Union Territory of J&K

Shri Manoj Sinha, Lt. Governor of the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir released ‘Forgotten Kashmir: The Other Side of the Line of Kashmir’ in a virtual event on 18th March 2021. The book has been published by Harper Collins. Its author Ambass....

May 20, 2021 Jammu & Kashmir , National Security and Strategic Studies , Book Discussions , POK , Governor , Jammu and Kashmir , Gilgit-Baltistan , Manoj Sinha
The Need to Activate the National Disaster Management Authority in Pandemic Times
Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF Article

India is facing a health emergency of unprecedented proportions. The Covid-19 pandemic has already claimed over 250,000 lives and infected over 24 million people in India. It is now rapidly spreading to rural areas where health infrastructure is mea....

May 18, 2021 National Security and Strategic Studies , Disaster Management , Article , COVID-19 , NDMA , MHA , Disaster Management Act , DDMA , SDMA
China’s Cyber-Influence Operations
Maj Gen P K Mallick, VSM (Retd)

… With its growing assertiveness in the international arena, China uses new technologies to achieve its foreign policy goals and project an image of responsible global power … spending billions on influence operations across the world ... fits i....

May 15, 2021 National Security and Strategic Studies , China , Cyber Security , PLA , Social Media , Intelligence agencies , China Cyber-Influence , Cyber Influence Operations , Non-Intelligence Sources , Digital Media , China’s influence campaign
Webinar on "National Security and Media"

The VIF organized a webinar on " India's National Security and Media" on 22 February 2021. Dr Arvind Gupta, Director VIF in his opening remarks highlighted the important role media plays in how a national security issue is projected, presented, and ....

May 14, 2021 National Security and Strategic Studies , Media Studies , Interaction , Defense , journalists , Indian government
Maoist Menace Calls for a Different Ball Game
Dr P M Nair Article

The massacre of 37 innocent personnel of the Security Forces (SF) of Government of India and the State Government, on 3rd April in Chhattisgarh, has led to widespread condemnation, even from the Prime Minister. Such mass killing of SF invites serio....

May 13, 2021 Leftwing Extremism , National Security and Strategic Studies , Article , Development , CRPF , Security Forces , Kishenji , Lalgarh , Maoist , rural employment
Technology and Air Warfare
Air Marshal Anil Khosla, PVSM, AVSM, VM (Retd)

Most pathbreaking technologies in use in the civilian world were first developed for military applications. Brightest of minds and R&D efforts have focussed on developing technologies for gaining a military edge over the adversary. Join Air Marshal A....

May 08, 2021 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , artificial intelligence , Indian Air Force , Hypersonic weapons , Air Power , Podcast , Air Warfare , Quantum Computing
COVID-19 Pandemic and Indian Armed Forces
Lt Gen (Dr) Rakesh Sharma (Retd.), Distinguished Fellow, VIF Article

The traditional Tamil treatise, Thirukkural, written over 2,000 years ago had defined a nations’ characteristics, "Pini inmai Selvam Vilaivinbam Emam, aniyenba Nattirkiv vainthu," implying that, "the important elements that constitute a n....

May 05, 2021 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Article , Armed forces , COVID-19 , AMC , medical staff , logistics control centres , National and State Crisis Response Centres
India’s Maoists: Utility of Counterinsurgency and Futility of Talks
Dr Uddipan Mukherjee Article

There was a flurry of analyses in the wake of the 03 April 2021 clash between India’s Security Forces [SFs] and the Maoist insurgents at the Sukma-Bijapur border region in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh.123

April 30, 2021 Leftwing Extremism , National Security and Strategic Studies , Article , Maoists , chhattisgarh , Sukma , Abujhmaad , CAPFs , COIN , foreign arms , IEDs , Mazumdar , MHA , SAMADHAN , WHAM
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