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Climate Change Summit: India Should Invest in Climate Action but Resist Western Pressure

Coinciding with Earth Day, President Biden will be hosting a summit of world leaders to discuss climate change on 22-23nd April 2021. The purpose of the summit is to persuade the leaders to undertake ambitious goals to cut the greenhouse emissions an....

April 19, 2021 National Security and Strategic Studies , Climate Change , Article , India , China , Climate Change , PM Modi , renewable energy , Biden , CO2 emissions , John Kerry , Paris Agreement , Kyoto Protocol

Transformation in Indian Armed Forces to Exploit Modern Information Systems

Brig (Dr) Ashok Pathak (Retd.) Article

Need for Adapting Modern Information Systems in Military Operations

The Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) today are capable of revolutionizing military operations. Since early 90’s Indian Armed Forces have gained immensel....

April 12, 2021 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Article , Military operations , AI Systems , Chhamb Sector , Command & Control , Decision making , Indo-Pak wars , Information systems , Network Centricity , sensor integration

Re-calibrating Strategies to Combat Maoists’ Violence

Lt. Gen. (Dr.) Vijay Kumar Ahluwalia PVSM, AVSM**, YSM, VSM (Retd.) Article

The recent dreadful attack by the Communist Party of India (Maoist), Maoists in short, on the joint team of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) including elite elements of Commando Battalion for Resolute Action (CoBRA), District Reserve Guard (DRG) a....

April 07, 2021 National Security and Strategic Studies , Article , Internal Security , Naxalism , Military Doctrine & Strategy , Military Strategy

Double-Time Transition in South Asian Geopolitics!

Lt Gen (Dr) Rakesh Sharma (Retd.), Distinguished Fellow, VIF Article

The bygone year has been globally geopolitically transformative, with indications of catalysing into a new era. Many of the events are being propelled by the catastrophic pandemic with its birth epicentre at Wuhan, China. The Corona Virus is geopolit....

March 24, 2021 National Security and Strategic Studies , Pakistan , Article , India , Pakistan , US , China , QUAD , LoC , Taliban , DGMOs , FMS

Cyber DNA of China –Deep, Focussed and Militarised

Dr Gulshan Rai, Distinguished Fellow, VIF

The strategic goals reconfirmed by the CCP, in late 1970’s, included maintaining domestic stability; sustaining economic growth and development; defending national sovereignty and territorial integrity; safeguarding China’s interest world over. T....

March 23, 2021 National Security and Strategic Studies , China , Cyber Security

Internet Lockdowns: Is There Any Other Way Out?

Abhinav Pandya Article

India's internet revolution is fast transforming its political, social, cultural, and technological landscape. One of the most critical factors that ensured the landslide victory of PM Modi with his razor-sharp and a straight-forward nationalist dis....

March 23, 2021 National Security and Strategic Studies , Cyber Security , Article , Pakistan , Kashmir , IB , Social Media , OGWs , DGISPR , foreign terrorists

Use of Airpower in ‘No War No Peace’ Scenario

Air Marshal Anil Khosla, PVSM, AVSM, VM (Retd)

15 March 2021 A ceasefire along the LOC came into being between India and Pakistan on 25 February coinciding with the second anniversary of airstrike by India at Balakot in response to the suicide bombing attack on a police convoy in Pulwama, Kas....

March 22, 2021 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Air Power , Podcast , No War No Peace Scenario , Balakot Airstrike , Pulwama Terrorist Attack

Book Review: “Forgotten Kashmir: The Other Side of the Line of Control” by Dinkar P Srivastava, Harper Collins Publishers Feb 2021, pp. 304, MRP Rs. 699

Amb Satish Chandra, Vice Chairman, VIF Article

“Forgotten Kashmir” while touching upon Pakistan’s invasion of Kashmir and the issue of self determination in the context of the people of Kashmir is mainly focussed on Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (PoK) inclusive of both so called Azad Kashmir a....

March 19, 2021 Jammu & Kashmir , National Security and Strategic Studies , Article , Pakistan , Kashmir , POK , Gilgit , Baltistan , Ibrahim Khan , Maharaja , Major Brown , Northern Areas , NWFP , UNCIP resolutions

Jammu and Kashmir: Reaction to the Abrogation of Article 370

Abhinav Pandya Article

There is no dearth of intellectuals and strategic experts deliberating on the post-370 Kashmir and the emerging trends in militancy. In the intellectual milieu, overwhelmingly dominated by Kashmir-centric militancy, often, Jammu never gets its due at....

March 19, 2021 Jammu & Kashmir , National Security and Strategic Studies , Article , Pakistan , Kashmir , Jammu , Security Forces , ISI , Article 370 , Jamaat-I-Islami , Roshni scheme

Reconciliation is the Way Forward for Durable Conflict Resolution in the Northeast

Brig Narender Kumar, SM, VSM (retd.) Article

Introduction

Conflict settlement is a significant achievement for a state to put an end to a violent protracted armed engagement. In fact, Johan Galtung gave new idea of concept of peace as negative peace that is absence of violence but i....

March 18, 2021 North-East Insurgency , National Security and Strategic Studies , Article , Conflict Resolution , Communication , Kuki , Naga Tribes , Naga Peace Accord , Reconciliation