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Launch on Demand: Relevance in Future Wars
Pushpinder Bath 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 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 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 (Retd.) 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 Diptendu Choudhury (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VM, VSM, Distinguished Fellow, VIF 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
Interaction between UK’s Chief of Defence and the Vivekananda International Foundation on UK’s “Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Development and Foreign Policy”.

On 21 April 2021, Vivekananda International Foundation members had a virtual Interaction with UK’s Chief of Defence Staff General Sir Nicholas PatrickCarter, GCB, CBE, DSO, ADC Gen. The interaction was focussed on the Indo-Pacific security and UK�....

June 14, 2021 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Interaction , foreign policy , UK , CDS. Indo-Pacific
Freedom of Navigation Operation (FONOP) by USS John Paul Jones in the Indian EEZ – A violation or unwarranted assertion?
Rear Admiral Sudarshan Y Shrikhande, AVSM, IN, (Retd)

On Apr 7, the 7th Fleet of the US Navy released a statement about Freedom of Navigation Operation (FONOP) undertaken by USS John Paul Jones in the Indian Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) without requesting India's prior consent. Join Rear Admiral Sudars....

May 27, 2021 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , UNCLOS , Podcast , freedom of navigation , FONOP , International Maritime Law , EEZ
The Rajput Age of the Indian Navy: Why INS Rajput matters on her day of decommissioning
Rear Admiral Sudarshan Y Shrikhande, AVSM, IN, (Retd)

As the Indian Navy’s destroyer INS Rajput heads for decommissioning on 21st May after 41 years of service, join Rear Admiral Sudarshan Shrikhande, AVSM, IN, (Retd) and Shashank Sharma, as they reminisce the era these ships ushered in for the India....

May 22, 2021 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Indian Navy , Podcast , Seapower , SNF , Rajput Class destroyer , Destroyer , Kashin Class destroyer
PM’s call at Kevadia – What is the ‘Big Picture’?
Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM Article

Ever since the PM addressed the Combined Commanders Conference in Kevadia on 06 March 2021 the media has been picking up bits and pieces of his address and pitching it as ‘stand-alone agendas’ complete with all the semantics aimed to sensationali....

May 21, 2021 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Article , R & D , Defence Exports , Combined Commanders' Conference , imports , military doctrine , OFB , PM's message , weapons & equipment
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