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Beyond the COVID-19: Indian Defence Industry
Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM Article

The social media is bulging at seams in making unending predictions by the hour related to the ‘life after Covid’. The continuum ranges from a ‘total doomsday’ scenario painted by the naysayersto the ‘we will win’ and how the life will be....

May 06, 2020 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Article , Defence industry , COVID-19 , Challenges of Services , Defence and aerospace sector , Post covid world
Biotechnology and Biological Warfare – its Applicability to Indian Armed Forces
Maj Gen (Retd.) P K Chakravorty Article

What is Biotechnology?
The technology which is based on biology is known as biotechnology which harnesses cellular and bio molecular processes to develop technologies and products that help improve our lives and the health of our planet.....

April 27, 2020 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Article , applications , Biotechnology , Biological , Delivery
Drone Swarms: Bracing up with The New Threat
Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM Article

(This article linked with a previous article titled, Drone Swarms - a Growing Lethality. Where is the world? Where are we? published on the VIF portal on 06 Apr 20201.While the said article highlighted the growing lethality of th....

April 27, 2020 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Article , Defence , Missiles , Hypersonic weapons , Drone swarms , Driven crafts , Swarm Threat
Armed Forces in Aid to Civilian Authorities in COVID-19 environment
Jaideep Chanda Article

COVID-19 has tested healthcare and associated infrastructure of nations like nothing else before. There are precedents e.g. the Spanish Flu, but none on the scale of COVID-19. Under such a catastrophic environment, the role of the Armed Forces in ass....

April 14, 2020 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Article , Army , Indian Navy , CDS , COVID-19 , Quarantine , IAF , Force preservation , Assistance Civil authorities , logistics
Drone Swarms -a Growing Lethality…. Where is the World? Where are We?
Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM Article

The credit of using the unmanned platform for the first time goes to Austria, when in1849 it attacked the Italian city of Venice using unmanned balloons loaded with explosives1. Surely, the Austrian warriors could have never imagined that ....

April 06, 2020 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Article , artificial intelligence , Air defence , Drone swarms , drone capabilities , UAV-X , Kamikaze drone , autonomous warfare , weaponised drones
Defence Exports: Analysing the Armenian Success
Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM Article

On 01 Mar 2020, the media was abuzz with the breaking news of India having won a 40 million USD contract to supply four Swathi Weapon Locating Radars (WLR) to Armenia beating strong competitors like Russia and Poland1. A contract of th....

March 18, 2020 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Article , DRDO , BrahMos , Swathi WLR , Defence Exports , DPSU , Akash missile , radars
A Decade of Discourse on Defence Matters
Lt Gen Gautam Banerjee, Editor, VIF

This book is a compilation of 30 pioneering papers on issues connected with India's national defence. These papers are a part of the vast repository of VIF publications over the past decade of its functioning as a strategic think tank with the purpos....

March 12, 2020 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Indian military , national defence , Book Published , Defence Matters , India's strategic
India’s Military Bilateral & Multilateral Exercises in 2019 - A Compendium

The Indian armed forces form an important component in projecting the Government of India’s foreign policy on the world stage. India has always projected and cultivated a well-rounded relationship with its neighbours as well as with countries beyon....

February 24, 2020 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Compendium , India’s Military Exercises
Creating an Effective CDS for India’s National Defence
VIF Study Group Report Article

Background
Nearly two decades after submission of the Kargil Review Committee (KRC) report in 1999, the Group of Ministers (GOM) Report in 2001 and recommendations of the Naresh Chandra Task Force in 2012, the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS)....

February 13, 2020 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Article , CDS , Govt CDS initiative , Guidelines on CDS function , MoD reforms
भारत के चीफ ऑफ डिफेंस स्टाफ: कुछ अनसुलझे मुद्दे
Gautam Sen Article

भारत सरकार ने देश की रक्षा सेवाओं से जुड़े सभी मामलों पर रक्षा मंत्री के इकलौते सलाहकार तथा सैन्�....

February 04, 2020 Defence , Governance and Political Studies , Article , DMARevenue budgetCapital budgetDODPrincipal AdvisorAcquisition PlansCDS
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