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Vimarsha Address by Dr Ajay Kumar, Defence Secretary, Govt. of India talk on 'India's Defence Reforms'

The Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF) invited Dr Ajay Kumar, Defence Secretary, Govt. of India for a public discourse on 'India's Defence Reforms'. The talk was organised under the aegis of Vimarsha, a platform offered by the VIF to enable e....

August 03, 2021 Vimarsh , National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence

Eastern Ladakh – In Focus Again!

Lt Gen (Dr) Rakesh Sharma (Retd.) Article

With a meeting of the EAM Jaishankar with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi, Eastern Ladakh has come in focus again. Most information and analysis of the events in Eastern Ladakh of 2020 and the first half of 2021 have been analysed in fine detail, an....

July 19, 2021 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Article , PLA , LAC , Ladakh , Galwan , Pangong Tso , Kailash Range , media centre

Drone Terror in India: A Challenge to Deter

Saumya Joshi Article

Introduction

Presently, drones have become an integral part of military’s arsenal for superpowers, while for others it is just a work in progress. From Yemeni soil against the Saudi oil installations to eliminating a high-ranking servin....

July 16, 2021 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Article , UNSC , FATF , Indian Air Force , Jammu , DRDO , Counter terrorism , Drone Terror Attack , Kaluchak Massacre 2002 , Anti-Drone system , Pakistan Sponsored Terrorism

Drone Threat – The Big Picture

Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM, Distinguished Fellow, VIF Article

The media was in frenzy post the drone attack on Jammu Air Force Station on the night of 26/27 Jun 2021. The volcano of breaking news and minute-to-minute reporting was trying to show us the face of danger that awaits us from the little monsters cal....

July 14, 2021 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Article , Drone attack , Drone threat , Threat from UAS , Drone countermeasures , Drone threat and countermeasures , Jammu drone attack.

Launch on Demand: Relevance in Future Wars

Pushpinder Bath, Senior Fellow, VIF Article

General

There are many emerging trends in warfare, which impact the conduct of warfare, security structures and decision-making apparatus. These are driven by technology as well as dynamic strategic considerations. However, three of these ....

July 09, 2021 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Article , Launch on Demand (LoD) , Quick Response Mechanism (QRM) , Operationally Responsive Space (ORS) , Micro satellite , Mini satellite , Kuaizhou-1 (KZ-1) , PLA Rocket Force (PLARF) , Anti Satellite (ASAT) , Directed Energy Weapons (DEW) , Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV)

Pandemic Factor in Military Organisation

Lt Gen Gautam Banerjee, Editor, VIF Article

Curse of the Pandemic

All-pervasive adversities brought about by the Covid-19 Pandemic have occupied, seized in fact, the universal human consciousness in a manner seen never before. That is only to be expected when the Pandemic has turn....

July 05, 2021 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Article , Pandemic and military , fallouts of Covid-19 , Pandemic and military administration

With Defence Production and Procurement Policies in Place – Are We Headed Correctly?

Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM, Distinguished Fellow, VIF Article

‘Year of Covid’ – an Important Year for Defence Sector

The stigma, ‘year of Covid’ notwithstanding, 2020 has been a very important year when it comes to self-reliance in defence and aerospace sector. It was in this year when the....

June 23, 2021 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Article , Defence Exports , MSMEs , DAP 2020 , Key Words: DPEPP 2020 , Procurement reforms , rollout of DPEPP and DAP , negative import list

“Indigenize India’s Military Doctrines, Procedures and Customs too”: PM at Kevadia

Brig (Dr) Ashok Pathak Article

PM’s Observation that Created the Ripple Effect

On 06 March 2021 the Indian Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi delivered the valedictory address to the Combined Commanders’ Conference at Kevadia in Gujarat. He stressed the “importan....

June 22, 2021 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Article , military doctrine , Combined Commanders’ Conference March 2021 Kevadia , JIAFD 2017 , Air Land Battle , PLA Informatized war doctrine , IDF Doctrine , Indian Army Doctrine 2005 , Land Warfare Doctrine 2018

Vimarsha: "Shaping the Armed Forces to meet likely Current and Future Challenges", by General BipinRawat, Chief of Defence Staff.

Under the Vimarsha series of lectures organized by the VIF on 07 April 2021,General Bipin Rawat, PVSM, UYSM, AVSM, YSM, SM, VSM, ADC, Chief of Defence Staff spoke on 'Shaping the Armed Forces to meet likely Current and Future Challenges'. It was foll....

June 20, 2021 Vimarsh , National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , artificial intelligence , CDS , Military diplomacy , Hybrid wars

The Absence of Air Power in India’s Security Narratives

Air Marshal D Choudhury, AVSM, VM, VSM Article

India’s security narrative of the region has been largely driven by the coercive diplomacy which China has chosen to pursue as a part of its national security strategy. Border stand offs in Arunachal in the near recent past and Ladakh currently, un....

June 16, 2021 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Article , India , China , South China Sea , Air Force , Indian Ocean , PLAAF , Ladakh , Border stand off