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How Political Uncertainty May Affect Security in J&K
Lt General S A Hasnain, PVSM, UYSM, AVSM, SM (Bar), VSM (Bar) (Retd.), Distinguished Fellow, VIF

I remember watching a Newstrack video magazine report in 1989 in which the existence of a brooding network of local terrorists was denied very authoritatively. In less than six months Kashmir was in the initiation stage of what has turned out to be a....

March 22, 2016 National Security and Strategic Studies , Jammu & Kashmir , LoC , Affect Security J&K , Political stability
Strategies for Enhancing India’s Comprehesive National Power
Brig (retd) Rahul Bhonsle

Comprehensive National Power – Concept and Utility National power is defined as the ability of a nation to attain its strategic objectives by directed action. The use of power would be based on the overall national vision based on the asp....

March 02, 2016 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , economy , military , National Power , FDI Growth
A Clinically Executed Anti-Terror Operation
Nitin A Gokhale

As more details emerge on the Pathankot terror strike and India's response, it is becoming increasingly clear that the quick decision-making at the highest levels of the country's security apparatus saved a repeat of a Mumbai-like carnage at the fron....

January 08, 2016 Terrorism , National Security and Strategic Studies , Pathankot Terror , National Security Adviser , NSG Teams
Detailed Report of the Seminar on Countering Online Radicalization and Recruitment

1. A joint workshop organized by the VIF in collaboration with the University of Maryland, US Embassy New Delhi and Facebook was organized from 17 to 18 November 2015 at the VIF premises. A number of eminent international experts and scholars besides....

December 30, 2015 Conference , National Security and Strategic Studies , Conferences , World war , radicalization , ISIS , Radical Islam , ISIL , Social Media , Recruitment to Violence , Civil Society , Daesh modus
J&K: Failures / Lapses and the Opportunities – A talk by Dr. Sudhir S. Bloeria

Vimarsha, VIF’s monthly series of talks on issues of national importance, was held on 23 December 2015 with Dr. Sudhir S. Bloeria, former Chief Secretary, Jammu and Kashmir and Vice Chancellor of Jammu and Kashmir, sharing his perspective on the pe....

December 30, 2015 Jammu & Kashmir , Vimarsh , National Security and Strategic Studies , Sudhir S. Bloeria , Kashmir after insurgency , Islamic law , Madrassas in Kashmir , Pakistan-China combine
Interaction with Dr. Sudhir S. Bloeria on Jammu & Kashmir

The VIF hosted Dr. Sudhir S. Boleria, former Chief Secretary of Jammu and Kashmir and Vice Chancellor Central University of Jammu and Kashmir for a round table discussion on the situation in J&K and the way forward on 22 December 2015. Dr. Bloeria....

December 29, 2015 Jammu & Kashmir , National Security and Strategic Studies , Interaction , Pakistan , POK , Ladakh , Sudhir S. Bloeria , J&K forward , Kashmiri Pundits
Military modernisation in China: its implications
Jayadeva Ranade

Chinese President Xi Jinping’s public announcement downsizing the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) at the grand military parade on September 3, 2015, was a major event. It signalled that the final stages of reform and reorganization of the PLA woul....

December 07, 2015 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Military Affairs , China , military modernisation , PLA
Workshop on 'Public-Private Partnership in Countering Online Radicalization and Recruitment to Violence'

Vivekananda International Foundation in collaboration with the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) of the University of Maryland, US Embassy and Facebook organised on November 17-18, 2015, a two-day works....

November 27, 2015 Conference , National Security and Strategic Studies , Conferences , World war , radicalization , ISIS , ISIL , Social Media , Recruitment to Violence , Civil Society
India, Vietnam, ASEAN Cooperation in Public Security and National Defence
Brig Vinod Anand, Senior Fellow, VIF

“Our defence cooperation with Vietnam is among our most important ones. India remains committed to the modernization of Vietnam’s defence and security forces.”

---PM Narendra Modi, October 2014

Overvi....

October 16, 2015 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , India , ASEAN , Vietnam , national defence
Combating Financing of Terror: An Indian Perspective
Dr Ramanand Garge

Introduction The Indian state possesses a unique characteristic of a mix of peace and conflict trajectories that greatly impact its policy and execution. This is true also of its policies on and responses to the most potent threat it faces....

October 07, 2015 Terrorism , National Security and Strategic Studies , Terror Financing , Financing of Terror
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