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Commentary - J&K: Special Representative’s Road Ahead will not be Easy
Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF Commentary

Appointment of Mr Dineshwar Sharma , former Director of Intelligence Bureau (DIB), as special ‘Representative’(SR) by the government for Kashmir to interact with the wide cross section of society in Kashmir to understand their “legitimate aspi....

November 04, 2017 Jammu & Kashmir , National Security and Strategic Studies , Commentary , Rajnath Singh , J&K special Representative , Kashmir dialogue , Home Minister , Dineshwar_Sharma , Intelligence Bureau , IB , Ajit Dovl
Changing Contours of Air Threat and its Implications in our Scenario
Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM

“Air power may either end war or end civilisation”.1 - Winston Churchill, House of Commons, 1933 Since the raison d’etre for the existence of air defence, be it on land, sea or in the air, is to counter the air threat from....

November 03, 2017 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Air defence , Indian Air Force , Air Threat
Cyber Security in India – Present Status

Introduction: The Information Technology (IT) Act in India was promulgated as early as 2000. The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) was established in 2004 and continues to act. India has undertaken several steps at p....

October 30, 2017 National Security and Strategic Studies , Cyber Security , Digital India , Smart City , Information Technology , CERT-In , Indian Cyber Security
Kashmir - A new Opportunity has Opened Up
C D Sahay

In a major initiative, Union Home Minister Shri Rajnath Singh, on October 23, 2017 announced government’s decision to appoint Shri Dineshwar Sharma, former Director of Intelligence Bureau (IB) as ‘Representative’ of Government of India ‘to ca....

October 27, 2017 Jammu & Kashmir , National Security and Strategic Studies , Rajnath Singh , Jammu & Kashmir , Home Minister , IB , J&K dialogue , Government’s Representative , Dineshwar Sharma , Govt of india , Lashkar-e Toiba , Mahbooba Mufti
रोहिंग्या संकट – भारत द्वारा चतुराई भरी कूटनीति की आवश्यकता
Amb Ashok Sajjanhar

प्रस्तावना पिछले कुछ हफ्तों में रोहिंग्या संकट एकाएक अंतरराष्ट्रीय समुदाय की चेतना औ�....

October 25, 2017 Ilegal Immigration , National Security and Strategic Studies
Nuclear Sabre-rattling: Pakistan must Discard its Tactical Nuclear Weapons
Brig Gurmeet Kanwal

“Any nuclear weapon, of any quality, mode of delivery or yield, used against any type of target, will result in a strategic impact to which the logical response would be the use of nuclear weapons, more often than not, on an overwhelming....

October 10, 2017 National Security and Strategic Studies , Nuclear and Disarmament , Pakistan , South Korea , Tactical Nuclear Weapons , Nuclear War , Air Force , Foreign Minister , TNWs , weapons , Sabre-rattling , Nuclear Weapons
India’s National Defence; Gautam Banerjee, Pentagon Press, New Delhi, 2017, pp 278, INR 995
Maj Gen (Retd.) P K Chakravorty

The book India’s National Defence defines India’s Defence Reforms and Military Modernisation which it must undertake to meet the strategic challenges of the 21st Century. The book lucidly brings out India’s inability to optimise its military su....

September 26, 2017 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , military modernisation , DRDO , Defence reforms , Book Reviews , R&D , NSCS
Some Lessons from Doklam
Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM

While the resolution of the Doklam stand-off as reported by the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) on 28 Aug is being hailed as a diplomatic breakthrough and an achievement of sorts for India in the open source reports, this work tries to revisit the....

September 06, 2017 National Security and Strategic Studies , Border and Coastal Security , Doklam stand-off , show of force , Chinese Game Plan , Japan
Three Stages of Indo-Russian Defence Relations: A Military Perspective
Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM

Abstract This Apr this year, India and Russia celebrated 70 years of their diplomatic relations. The occasion was marked with reciprocal visits of the Heads of State to each other's country. While PM Modi wrote 'India, Russia r....

August 23, 2017 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Defence technology , Russia relations , Make-in-India
The Nexus of Terror and Ideology : Scourge of Naxalism in India
Shekhar Dutt

Independence may have firmed up the geographic expanse of India but it failed to stabilise the ‘concept’ of India. Constitutionally we have taken our diversity seriously and the representative form of our democracy has further made our divisions ....

August 21, 2017 Leftwing Extremism , National Security and Strategic Studies , West Bengal , Naxalism in India , Andhra Pradesh , Telengana , Jharkhand , Odisha , Maoists , insurgency , governance
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