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Critical Requirement of VSHORADS - A User's Perspective
Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM

Abstract The ongoing procurement case of Very Short Range Air Defence (VSHORAD) weapon system for the three Services is currently in the news both in the print, as well as, the digital media. Understandably, the information content in both of t....

May 23, 2017 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Air defence , defence procurement , Indian Army , VSORADS , DPP
Laudable Reforms in Defence Procurement
Brig Gurmeet Kanwal

Transformative Reform It is a well-established fact that no nation aspiring to great power status can expect to achieve its goal without being substantively self-reliant in defence production. The NDA government led by Prime Minis....

March 09, 2017 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Defence technology , Procurement procedure , Production policy
The Finest Chief for The Finest Army
General NC Vij, PVSM, UYSM, AVSM

“I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion."
Alexander the Great

Time to move on

Ever since the nomination of the now incumbent Army Ch....

January 30, 2017 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence
Pakistan’s War against India is not a Proxy War; it is War through Asymmetric Means
Brig Gurmeet Kanwal

The Pakistan Army and the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) — known as the ‘deep state’ — have been waging a war against India through asymmetric means as part of their strategy of ‘bleeding India through a thousand cut....

December 12, 2016 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Pakistan , Pakistan Army , Proxy War , Indo-China
सशस्त्र सेनाओं को राजनीति से दूर रखें!
Commodore Gopal Suri

भारत की सशस्त्र सेनाओं ने हमारे पश्चिमी पड़ोसी के खिलाफ चार युद्ध लड़े और जीते हैं, एक ऐसे पड़ोसी क�....

November 22, 2016 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Politics , Armed forces , Keep The Armed Forces Out of Politics
Tactical Nuclear Weapons (TNW) in Current Indo-Pak Environment
Maj Gen (Retd.) P K Chakravorty

Introduction Nuclear weapons have been primarily categorised into Strategic and Non- strategic weapons. Strategic weapons have a longer range and higher yield. Non- strategic nuclear weapons conversely have a smaller range and lower yield. ....

November 21, 2016 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Pakistan , Tactical Nuclear Weapons , TNW , Nasr , Iron Dome , Indo-Pak Environment , Israeli Systems
Keep The Armed Forces Out of Politics!
Commodore Gopal Suri

The Indian Armed Forces have fought and won four wars against our Western neighbor, a state where the country does not have an army but the Army has a country. Despite these obvious victories, the Indian Armed Forces have never fallen prey to the wor....

November 10, 2016 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Politics , Armed forces , Honour , morale , political misrepresentation
Realizing the ‘Make Defence Equipment in India’ Dream by First Nurturing in-house Human Resources
Lalit Joshi

Introduction The Defence Procurement Procedure (DPP) 2016 was unveiled by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) in March this year incorporating most of the recommendations of the Committee of Experts (CoE) constituted by MoD for ‘Amendment to DP....

November 10, 2016 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Procurement procedure , Defence acquisitions , human resource management , procurement expertise
सातवां शियांगशान फोरम
Lt General R K Sawhney, PVSM, AVSM, Centre Head & Senior Fellow, National Security and Strategic Studies & Internal Security Studies, VIF

अनौपचारिक बातचीत का दौर सातवां ‘शियांगशान’ (शाब्दिक अर्थ है ‘खुशबू भरी पहाड़ियां’) सम्मेलन ....

November 04, 2016 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence
Air Defence: De-Mystifying Facts from Euphoria
Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM

Abstract If there was one news that dominated the media space like no other in the recently concluded BRICS Summit on 15-16 Oct, it was the one on the signing of the contract between India and Russia for the purchase of five Regiments ....

November 03, 2016 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Air defence , S 400 , Indo-Russian weapon trade , Ground Based Air Defence , BMC2 , ARH , UCAVs , UAVs , SSMs , Surface-to-Surface Missiles , Surface to Air Missiles , Voyska
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