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Beyond the COVID-19: Indian Defence Industry
Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM Article

The social media is bulging at seams in making unending predictions by the hour related to the ‘life after Covid’. The continuum ranges from a ‘total doomsday’ scenario painted by the naysayersto the ‘we will win’ and how the life will be....

May 06, 2020 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Article , Defence industry , COVID-19 , Challenges of Services , Defence and aerospace sector , Post covid world
The Maoists, Violence, and their ‘Alternate Revolutionary Programme’
Dr Uddipan Mukherjee Article

As human beings distance away from each other to deny the corona virus any additional mass and volume, the left-wing insurgents in India's dense jungles converge into south Bastar in central India from neighbouring provinces as well as from Nepal

May 06, 2020 Leftwing Extremism , National Security and Strategic Studies , Article , Maoists , Violence , ideology , Charu Mazumdar , CPI (M) , Lenin , Marx , Mao Tse-tung , New Democratic State , dictatorship of the proletariat
Biotechnology and Biological Warfare – its Applicability to Indian Armed Forces
Maj Gen (Retd.) P K Chakravorty Article

What is Biotechnology?
The technology which is based on biology is known as biotechnology which harnesses cellular and bio molecular processes to develop technologies and products that help improve our lives and the health of our planet.....

April 27, 2020 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Article , applications , Biotechnology , Biological , Delivery
Drone Swarms: Bracing up with The New Threat
Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM Article

(This article linked with a previous article titled, Drone Swarms - a Growing Lethality. Where is the world? Where are we? published on the VIF portal on 06 Apr 20201.While the said article highlighted the growing lethality of th....

April 27, 2020 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Article , Defence , Missiles , Hypersonic weapons , Drone swarms , Driven crafts , Swarm Threat
Ramzan Amidst Battle Against Coronavirus
Soumya Awasthi Article

Introduction
One of the most potent weapons against combatting Covid-19 pandemic is the norm of social distancing. Social congregation is an anathema to the norm of social distancing. Therefore, during the time when Covid-19 has spread it....

April 24, 2020 National Security and Strategic Studies , Article , India , COVID-19 , World , Ramzan , Deoband , Social distancing norms , Religious practices
Industry 4.0 Joins Fight to Contain COVID-19
Dr Vijay Sakhuja Article

“I have a 3D Printer and I am ready to join the fight against COVID-19” is the buzz among the technology developers. There is euphoria to use 3D printers to manufacture a variety of medical products and equipment such as face masks and shield, Pe....

April 21, 2020 National Security and Strategic Studies , Governance and Political Studies , Article , Indian Navy , Industry 4.0 , COVID-19 , Additive Manufacturing , 3D printing , Ventilators , Facemasks
Corona - Biological War and Other Connotations
Col Pradeep Jaidka (Retd.) Article

The intensity and spread of Corona virus has been unprecedented in the world. All previous calamities either effected smaller regions or petered out with time. In terms of death ‘Black Death’ caused up to 75-200 million people in Eurasia and Nort....

April 21, 2020 National Security and Strategic Studies , Article , Corona spread , China’s role , Economic effects , Short , Medium and Long Term Implications , India specific Unique Challenges , Limitations , Responses
K File:The Conspiracy of Silence By Bashir Assad (New Delhi, Vitasta Publishing Pvt. Ltd., 2019. 237pp)
Prof K Warikoo

Bashir Assad’s book comes at an appropriate time, as it provides an insider and subaltern view of Kashmir. He has firsthand experience of the developments in Kashmir for the past 30 years. In his own words, he has lived the ideology of Maududi Isl....

April 20, 2020 Jammu & Kashmir , National Security and Strategic Studies , Kashmir , Book Reviews , Bashir Assad , Kashmiri Muslims , Maududi Islam , Jamat-e-Islami , Kashmiris , Ahl-e-Hadis , Islamisation , Nizam-e-Mustafa
Covid-19 and India’s Maoists
Dr P V Ramana Commentary

Even as the country is under a lockdown in the wake of COVID-19, also being referred to as novel Corona virus, alleged sympathisers of Naxalites of the Communist Party of India (Maoist), Maoists in short, Gautam Navlakha and Anand Teltumbde have been....

April 15, 2020 Leftwing Extremism , National Security and Strategic Studies , Commentary , COVID-19 , Urban Maoists , Expansion of bases , Relief from courts , Recruitment
Armed Forces in Aid to Civilian Authorities in COVID-19 environment
Jaideep Chanda Article

COVID-19 has tested healthcare and associated infrastructure of nations like nothing else before. There are precedents e.g. the Spanish Flu, but none on the scale of COVID-19. Under such a catastrophic environment, the role of the Armed Forces in ass....

April 14, 2020 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Article , Army , Indian Navy , CDS , COVID-19 , Quarantine , IAF , Force preservation , Assistance Civil authorities , logistics
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