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Symposium on ‘Golden Jubilee of Indo-Pak Conflict 1965’

A symposium, commemorating India’s first definitive military victory against Pakistan in 1965, was held by the Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF) on 11 September 2015. Military analysts, historians, and war veterans, among other distinguish....

September 18, 2015 Conference , National Security and Strategic Studies , Conferences , Pakistan , Indo-Pak Conflict 1965 , 1965 war

New Echoes in J&K

Brig SK Chatterji

The undercurrents in Kashmir Valley, the covert and overt actions of Pakistan across the International Border and Line of Control (LoC) with India require to be analysed in depth if we are not to be reactive in our strategy to thwart separatist desig....

August 26, 2015 Jammu & Kashmir , National Security and Strategic Studies

The current LoC narrative and India’s response

Lt General S A Hasnain, PVSM, UYSM, AVSM, SM (Bar), VSM (Bar) (Retd.), Distinguished Fellow, VIF

In conventional warfare command decisions are based on a range of options, the escalation matrix is well understood and risk is quite easily calculated on the basis of resources, surprise and leadership. However, in irregular warfare the challenge of....

August 19, 2015 Jammu & Kashmir , National Security and Strategic Studies

Naga Accord: Challenges Remain

Prakash Singh

“Today, we mark not merely the end of a problem, but the beginning of a new future.” Thus spake the Prime Minister on August 3, after the Naga Peace Accord was signed in New Delhi. The terms of agreement were not released – only the framework w....

August 13, 2015 North-East Insurgency , National Security and Strategic Studies

Vimarsha: National Security Challenges of the Next Decade - A talk by General Bikram Singh, former Chief of Indian Army & Chairman COS

On 30 Jul 2015, General Bikram Singh, former Chief of Indian Army & Chairman Chiefs of Staff, delivered an incisive talk, titled as ‘National Security Challenges of the Next Decade’, to a large audience, comprising academia, intelligentsia, soldi....

August 07, 2015 Vimarsh , National Security and Strategic Studies , China , J&K , ISIS , Indian Ocean , National Security Challenges , Pakistan’s ISI , Northeast , Armed Forces Special Powers Act

Mullah Omar’s Death Casts Dark Clouds over Afghanistan’s Pakistan-Led, Pakistan-Owned Peace Process

Sushant Sareen

The resistance by powerful Afghan Taliban leaders and field commanders to the nomination of Mullah Akhtar Mansoor as successor of Mullah Mohammad Omar and his elevation as the new Emir of the Taliban movement has, for now at least, spoiled the elabor....

August 05, 2015 Terrorism , National Security and Strategic Studies

Nagaland: Reasons to be Optimistic

Nitin A Gokhale

Late on Monday evening, the question uppermost in the mind of every observer who watches the north-east closely was: Will the Naga accord usher in permanent peace in the region, wracked by conflict for decades? More than 12 hours after the pact was s....

August 04, 2015 North-East Insurgency , National Security and Strategic Studies

Islamic State and Southeast Asia

Dr Alvite Singh Ningthoujam

The tentacles of the Islamic State (IS) have reached Southeast Asia and the region is increasingly becoming a recruiting hub for the outfit. This is an alarming development as a few of these countries, long considered to be moderate Muslim states, ha....

August 03, 2015 Terrorism , National Security and Strategic Studies

A Mass Murderer is Neither an Icon Nor a Victim

Sushant Sareen

The most troubling aspect of the sinister and manufactured outrage of the usual suspects over the hanging of a mass murderer, Yakub Memon, is how easily this fringe group is able to impose itself on the national narrative and build pressure to short-....

July 31, 2015 National Security and Strategic Studies

The Dinanagar Terror Attack: What it Portends

Sushant Sareen

At the time of writing this analysis of the terror attack in Dinanagar town of Punjab, the operation to flush out and finish the terrorists holed up in a police station is still going on. As a result, there is only sketchy information available on th....

July 27, 2015 Terrorism , National Security and Strategic Studies