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Joint VIF-ARTRAC-IIM Indore Capsule on Strategic Leadership and Perspective Planning Programme (23-26 Aug 2022)

VIF in collaboration with Army War College/Army Training Command and IIM Indore organized a three day capsule on “Strategic Leadership and Perspective Planning” programme for recently approved three star generals at the Vivekananda International ....

September 20, 2022 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Seminars , Defence production , Geostrategic , Defeating Threats , India’s Strategic Culture , Leadership Workshop
Indigenization of Defence Production: India’s Journey from Vision to Outcomes
Brig (Dr) Ashok Pathak Article

The Changing Landscape of Defence Production in India
In 2013 India was the top importer of arms. This dubious distinction stayed for the next five years- accounting for 12% of total global imports by all the countries
September 19, 2022 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Article , Indigenization , Defence Public Sector Unit (DPSU) , Ordnance Board , Tejas Mk II , INS Vikrant
Revitalising Indian Military Ethical Leadership
Lt. Gen Ajai Kumar Singh, AVSM, YSM, SM, VSM Article

“KarmanyeVaadhikaraste Maa Phaleshu Kadaachana, Maa karmaphalheturbhur Maa Te Sangostva Karmani” Thy business is with action only, never with its fruits, So let not the fruit of action be thy motive, nor be Thou to inaction attach....

August 27, 2022 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Article , morals , Ethical lLeadership , Field Marshal KM Cariappa , integrity , leading by example , military ethics , misplaced loyalty , Unethical leadership , Zero Error Syndrome
Challenges in Defence Acquisitions
Amit Cowshish, Distinguished Fellow, VIF Article

The Defence Acquisition Procedure 2020 (DAP2020) [1] aims at optimal utilisation of the allocated budget for timely acquisition of military equipment, systems and platforms meeting the desired parameter....

August 26, 2022 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Article , DAP 2020 , capability development , Defence Planning MOD
The Future of Ground Based Air Defence
Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM, Distinguished Fellow, VIF Article

Setting the Perspective

Introduction
This work carries the author’s perception of the required ‘future face of the nation’s Ground Based Air Defence (GBAD) which will be capable of countering the futuristic threats from our....

August 17, 2022 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Article , Air defence , Missiles , Drones , GBAD , hypersonic
Lt Gen John Ranjan Mukherjee, ‘A Soldier for Life – My Story’, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd, Delhi, 2021, pages 396, Rs 995/-, ISBN: 978-93-90917-72-3]
Maj Gen P K Mallick, VSM (Retd)

This is a story of the experience of one of the most illustrious General Officers of the Indian Army of recent time: the experiences in the Assam Regiment, India-Pakistan 1971 War, India’s North East, Jammu & Kashmir and India’s Tibet Border. The....

August 08, 2022 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Indian Army , Book Reviews , Johny Mukherjee , General Rostum Nanavatty , India’s foreign relations
Military Civil Fusion in China
Maj Gen P K Mallick, VSM (Retd) Article

“We must accelerate the formation of a full-element, multi-domain, and high-return military-civil fusion deep development pattern, and gradually build up China’s unified military-civil system of strategies and strategic capability”, - Xi Jin....

August 01, 2022 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Article , China’s technology adaptation , military-civil technical integration , China’s military grading of civil products , technology fusion in China , repurposing technology for military application
Remembering Kargil: How it Redefined the Concept of War between India and Pakistan
Dhritiman Mukherjee Article

Kargil Vijay Diwas is celebrated every 26th of July to commemorate the valour and sacrifice of our soldiers who fought in the Kargil war of 1999. The war was fought by Indian soldiers in the Kargil district of Jammu and Kashmir, now situated in Lada....

July 29, 2022 National Security and Strategic Studies , Neighbourhood Studies , Defence , Pakistan , Article , India , Pakistan , Kargil , nuclear deterrence
The Power of the ‘God of War’: Assessing the Russian advantage in Artillery in the Russo-Ukrainian War
Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM, Distinguished Fellow, VIF Article

The God of War
Way back in 1944, when the ferocity of World War II was at its peak, Joseph Stalin made a statement; ‘Artillery is the God of War’. His remarks probably related to the fact that most of the combat deaths in the two World ....

July 27, 2022 National Security and Strategic Studies , International Relations and Diplomacy , Defence , Article , Russia , Artillery , Ukraine , Donbas
Modern Warfare and Structural Transformation
Lt Gen (Dr) Rakesh Sharma (Retd.), Distinguished Fellow, VIF Article

Prime Minister Narender Modi in a valedictory address at the Combined Commanders Conference at Kevadia, Gujarat on 05 March 2021 stressed upon the armed forces to shed the legacy systems and practices that had outlived their utility and relevance. Th....

July 26, 2022 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Article , doctrine , Future Force , Integration , Jointness , theaterisation
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