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The Moscow Meeting on Afghanistan and its Implications for India
Amb Asoke Mukerji, Distinguished Fellow, VIF Article

On 5-6 February 2019, an ‘intra-Afghan’ dialogue sponsored by the Afghan Diaspora in Russia concluded with a 8-point statement issued by the participants. The meeting between the Taliban and some Afghan leaders, without the participation of the A....

February 14, 2019 National Security and Strategic Studies , Article , India’s stakes in Afghanistan , Moscow Talks with Taliban
Nuclear Power: India’s Development Imperative (a VIF Task Force Report)

India has to be militarily powerful to be a meaningful player in international politics. As the world’s fifth largest economy, it must be a secure nation to deter her enemies. India’s Poet Laureate Dr. Ramdhari Singh Dinkar, in his poem quoted ab....

February 12, 2019 National Security and Strategic Studies , Nuclear and Disarmament , Climate Change , Nuclear Power , India’s Development , Nuclear energy , MIT report
Youth Development through National Cadet Corps
Lt. Gen. Vinod Vashisht, AVSM, VSM & Bar (Retd)

… motto of NCC, ‘Unity & Discipline’, is committed to the empowerment of youth .. making invaluable contributions towards nation building ... it flags two vital issues of contemporary concern .. united and disciplined citizenry would be central....

February 12, 2019 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Youth development & skilling , NCC in nation building , NCC
Vimarsha: ‘India’s North-East: From Periphery to the Core’

As a part of Vivekananda International Foundatio’s (VIF) longest running series of lectures, Vimarsha, Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma, Minister of Finance and Health, Government of Assam, was invited to deliberate upon India’s strategically important Nor....

February 06, 2019 North-East Insurgency , Vimarsh , National Security and Strategic Studies , Assam , Act East Policy , North-East region , Citizenship Act
ISIS’s Infiltration into Balkans and its Changing Tactics
Natalia Griva Article

The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is a powerful group which is responsible for hundreds of terrorist attacks around the world and used to control large areas of Iraq and Syria in the size of the United Kingdom. ISIS is known around the world....

January 31, 2019 Terrorism , National Security and Strategic Studies , Article , ISIS terror , ISIS in Balkans
Strasbourg Terror Attack – Revisiting ISIS Footprints in Europe
Dr Ramanand Garge Article

The picturesque city of Strasbourg witnessed a shocking terror attack on December 11, 2018, in which a gunman opened fire around the famous Christmas market, killing at least three people and wounding 12 others. The Strasbourg Christmas markets is on....

January 29, 2019 Terrorism , National Security and Strategic Studies , Article , Strasbourg terror attack , terror threat in Europe
Indus Water Treaty: New Realities and a Way Ahead
Major General (Retd.) Ajay Kumar Chaturvedi, AVSM, VSM Article

Introduction
Ever since the Prime Minister of India Sri Narendra Modi, while chairing a review meeting on Indus Water Treaty-1960 (IWT), reportedly made that famous statement post the Uri terrorist attack on 16 Sep 2016, that ‘blood an....

January 24, 2019 National Security and Strategic Studies , Article , Indus Water Treaty options , India’s water management
Review of Governor’s Rule in J&K and the Way Forward
Abhinav Pandya Article

After the break-up of the tumultuous political alliance between the PDP-BJP (19th June 2018), Governor’s Rule was imposed in the State for the eight’s time on June 20, 2018. Once again, it seemed that the history has destined to write-off any pos....

January 23, 2019 Jammu & Kashmir , National Security and Strategic Studies , Article
Is Artificial Intelligence (AI) Changing the Nature of War?
Maj Gen P K Mallick, VSM (Retd) Article

Introduction
The professional military body differentiates between an objective nature and a subjective character of war by drawing upon Clausewitz. Nature of war describes what war is and character of war describes how it is actually fou....

January 18, 2019 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Article , artificial intelligence , Nature and character of war
An Inconvenient Reality: 26/11 as State-Sponsored Terrorism
Dr Prem Mahadevan

... the 26/11 attack occurred because India invested heavily in two components of counter-terrorism: international diplomacy and domestic intelligence, but neglected a third: covert retaliatory capability ... as long as Pakistan exists, there will al....

January 11, 2019 Terrorism , National Security and Strategic Studies , 26/11 attack , Mumbai , State-Sponsored Terrorism , Deep Terror
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