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Strategy for Defence Exports: Need for Alternative Measures

Issues Meriting Importance

India currently is the highest importer of weaponry in the World. While our adversaries China and Pakistan import weapons, both have scaled down their imports and enhanced their exports. Our adversaries are by a....

June 07, 2018 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Article , Defence Planning Committee , Defence production , Defence export

World Environment Day - India should Launch a National Mission for Ecological Restoration of Degraded Lands and Wastelands

Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF Commentary

This year India is hosting the 43^rd edition of the UN World Environment Day, celebrated on the 5^th of June, this time the theme being “Beat the Plastic Pollution”. In 2015, over 320 million ton of plastic waste was produced....

June 05, 2018 National Security and Strategic Studies , Climate Change , Commentary , World Environment Day , environmental degradation , nature restoration

राष्ट्रीय सुरक्षा सलाहकार की अध्यक्षता में नई रक्षा समिति का गठन

G. Mohan Kumar Article

रक्षा मंत्रालय ने हाल ही में राष्ट्रीय सुरक्षा सलाहकार की अध्यक्षता में एक रक्षा योजना समिति (�....

June 05, 2018 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Article , रक्षा योजना समिति (डीपीसी) , रक्षा नीति , रक्षा विनिर्माण

VIF-FICCI Homeland Security Conference on Cyber Crime Management, FICCI Auditorium, New Delhi

The two day conference had the an objective of bringing together stakeholders of the cyber security domain i.e. the Government, intelligence agencies, police, industry, academia and think tanks, in promoting development and implementation of systems ....

May 30, 2018 Conference , National Security and Strategic Studies , Cyber Security , Conferences , Cyber Security , FICCI , Homeland Security , Cyber Crime Management

20 Years of India’s Nuclearisation: Retrospect and Prospect

Dr Kapil Patil Commentary

On 11^th & 13^th May 1998, India surprised the world by conducting five nuclear tests in the Pokhran deserts of Rajasthan.¹ The tests marked the end of India’s long ambivalence vis-à-vis the nuclear weapons and set i....

May 24, 2018 National Security and Strategic Studies , Nuclear and Disarmament , Commentary , India’s nuclearisation , India’s nuclear doctrine

Vimarsha: Talk by Air Chief Marshal BS Dhanoa, PVSM, AVSM, YSM, VM, ADC, on ‘Role of Indian Air Force in the Changing Security Environment’,

The Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF) invited Air Chief Marshal BS Dhanoa, PVSM, AVSM, YSM, VM, ADC, Chief of Air Staff, for a public discourse on “The Role of Indian Air Force (IAF) in the Changing Security Environment” The talk was org....

May 21, 2018 Vimarsh , National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Indian Air Force , Security Environment , BS Dhanoa , Gagan Shakti

एयर चीफ मार्शल बीएस धनोआ ने एक सार्वजनिक भाषण में बताया कि बदलते सुरक्षा वातावरण में कैसी है भारतीय वायुसेना की भूमिका

Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF

विवेकानंद इंटरनेशनल फाउंडेशन (वीआईएफ) के आमंत्रण पर एयर चीफ मार्शल बी. एस. धनोआ ने “राष्ट्रीय सु....

May 15, 2018 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , राष्ट्रीय सुरक्षा , वायु सेना की भूमिका

India’s Fifth Largest Military Spending Rank by SIPRI – A Reality Check

Brig (retd) Rahul Bhonsle Commentary

The latest report on global military spending published by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) on 02 May has placed India as the fifth largest defence spender in the World in 2017. SIPRI attributes increase in the global mili....

May 14, 2018 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Commentary , Indian defence budget , Military spending report

Why S-400 Will Make Sense Despite (Un)Likelihood of US Sanctions

Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM Commentary

The open source is abuzz with the news that India and Russia are close to finalising the deal for the purchase of S-400 System despite the threat of US sanctions¹. Making it a central issue during the visit of Defence Minister, Mrs ....

May 08, 2018 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Commentary , Air defence , S-400

Significance of Exercise ‘Gagan Shakti-2018’

Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF Commentary

The Indian Air Force (IAF) carried out a massive pan-India Exercise ‘Gagan Shakti 2018’ from 08-22 Apr 2018 involving practically the entire operational and logistic component of the IAF. What is the significance of the exercise? India faces f....

May 07, 2018 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Commentary , Exercise Gagan Shakti , Indian Air Force