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What Terrorists Want: Understanding the Enemy, Containing the Threat by Prof Louise Richardson, Publishers: Random House/New York, 2006, USD 25.95
Anurag Sharma, Associate Fellow, VIF

Professor Louise Richardson’s book “What Terrorists Want” is one of the primers on the study of terrorism. The book is organised in two parts— 1) The Terrorists, consists of five chapters and 2) The Counter terrorists which consists of....

May 24, 2020 Terrorism , National Security and Strategic Studies , Terrorism , LTTE , Book Reviews , Social life , Irish Republican Army , PLO
In The Name of the Nation: India and Its Northeast by Sanjib Baruah, Stanford University Press: Stanford, 2020, 297 pp, ISBN: 9781503610705
Dr Hirak Jyoti Das, Associate Fellow, VIF

In the Name of the Nation: India and its North East, authored by Sanjib Baruah interrogates the interaction of North East India with the territorial conceptions of the post colonial nation-state and state sovereignty. The North Eastern Region consist....

May 23, 2020 National Security and Strategic Studies , Assam , Book Reviews , Nation , India and Its Northeast , Sanjib Baruah , North Eastern Region
In their Own Words-Understanding Lashkar-e-Tayyaba by C. Christine Fair, Second Edition; By Christine Fair; India: Oxford University Press, 2019. 303pp. ISBN 10: 0-19-949521-1
Soumya Awasthi

The goal of every state is to survive. Many countries adopt various kinds of strategies to achieve their ends. The strategies are a mix of military, economic and diplomatic ways and means to realise their policy goals. However, in the case of Pakista....

May 20, 2020 Terrorism , National Security and Strategic Studies , LeT , Book Reviews , Understanding Lashkar , C. Christine Fair , Lashkar
Achieving Self Reliance through Indigenous R&D by DRDO /Industry - Part II

India is at the cusp of metamorphosing from a regional player to one with global clout. As India’s geo-political and economic ambitions grow, it needs to develop robust indigenous manufacturing capabilities and ecosystem to secure its ambition for ....

May 20, 2020 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , DRDO , Defence industry , Self Reliance , R&D , Indigenous , Aerospace , SIPRI
कोरोना – जैविक युद्ध और अन्य निहितार्थ
Col Pradeep Jaidka (Retd.) Article

कोरोनावायरस की तीव्रता और प्रसार दुनिया के लिए अभूतपूर्व रहा है। इससे पहले की सभी महामारियों क....

May 15, 2020 National Security and Strategic Studies , Article , बीआरआई , चीन , सोशल मीडिया , वैश्विक अर्थव्यवस्था , कोरोनावायरस , महामारी , कोरोना
Kashmir: Another one Bites the Dust—HM Commander Naikoo Eliminated
Anurag Sharma, Associate Fellow, VIF Article

The pandemic of COVID-19 may have halted or transformed the way of carrying out activities around the world, but nothing has changed in India’s counter-terrorism operations in the Kashmir Valley. These remain very robust and strongly driven by accu....

May 15, 2020 Terrorism , National Security and Strategic Studies , Article , India; Riyaz Naikoo; Gazi Haider; Ghazi; Saifullah; Pakistan; Hizbul Mujahideen; LeT; Kashmir Terrorism; Zakir Musa; Burhan Wani; Awantipora; Shopian; Syed Salahuddin; ISI
This is the way World Ends : How Droughts and Die-offs, Heat Waves and Hurricanes Are Converging on America by Jeff Nesbit, Thomas Dunne Books, St Martin’s Publishing Group, 2018, United States, 336 pp, ISBN: 9781250160461, price-$29.99 (2,257.17 Rs)
Heena Samant, Research Associate, VIF

We all have heard of climate change and its impact now and of future time and again. So much so, that it has now become the new normal. But it doesn’t really get the mind space that it needs, for various reasons. Then comes a book like Jeff Nesbit....

May 13, 2020 National Security and Strategic Studies , Climate Change , Book Reviews , Geopolitics , Impacts of climate change , Earth’s ecosystem
Universal Counter Covid-19 Strategy Framework (UCCSF): From a Coronavirus Infected World to a Coronavirus Immune World
Soumya Awasthi Article

Abstract
In the World, the SARS Cov-2 Covid-19 pandemic has grown exponential with 3.99 million confirmed cases and 278,814 deaths as on May 10, 2020. Countries have implemented varying levels of containment and social distancing measures....

May 13, 2020 National Security and Strategic Studies , Governance and Political Studies , Article , Coronavirus , COVID-19 , post corona world , Universal Counter Covid Strategy Framework (UCCSF) , Self-Preservation Mode , Covid Containment Mode , Economic Revival Mode , Herd Immunity Mode , Normalisation Mode , Darwinian Mode. Covid-19 Prediction , Covid-19 Strategy , Covid -19 Containment , National Lock Down , Future of Covid -19
Tablighi Jamaat in India: Evolution and Impact
Brig (Dr) Ashok Pathak (Retd.) Article

Brief Profile of Tablighi Jamaat (TJ)
The outbreak of COVID 19 pandemic in India coincided with headlines news in the Indian media on TJ. On 2 April 20 Lav Agarwal Joint Secretary Ministry of Health and Family Welfare stated ‘COVID-19 ....

May 12, 2020 National Security and Strategic Studies , Article , Covid 19 , Tablighi Jamaat , Markaz , Indian secularism , independence movement
Lockdown Scenario- A Golden Opportunity for Cyber Criminals
Anurag Sharma, Associate Fellow, VIF Article

“Anyone who thinks that security products alone offer true security is settling for the illusion of security.”1 - Kevin D Mitnick
The emergence of Coronavirus (hereafter COVID-19) and its rapid spread has em....

May 08, 2020 National Security and Strategic Studies , Cyber Security , Article , India , Cyber Security , Cybercrime , lockdown , COVID19 , Cyberspace , Cybercriminals , Ransomware , Phishing , Child Protection
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