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Military modernisation in China: its implications
Jayadeva Ranade

Chinese President Xi Jinping’s public announcement downsizing the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) at the grand military parade on September 3, 2015, was a major event. It signalled that the final stages of reform and reorganization of the PLA woul....

December 07, 2015 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Military Affairs , China , military modernisation , PLA
Malabar-2015: Towards collective security in the Indo-Pacific
Dr Ramanand Garge

The strategically significant Joint India-US Naval exercise MALABAR-2015, hosted by India between October 14 and 21, 2015, conducted in the Bay of Bengal, in many ways, illustrates the growing multi-faceted military cooperation between India a....

December 04, 2015 Defence , Indo-Pacific , Malabar , India-US Naval Exercise
Defence Minister’s One Year Positive Record
Brig Gurmeet Kanwal

During his first year in office, Defence Minister, Manohar Parrikar gave a free hand to the army to act pro-actively on the LoC. He led from the front and worked closely with the leadership of the armed forces, the bureaucracy and his counterparts in....

November 14, 2015 Defence , India , Defence Minister , Defence , LoC
India, Vietnam, ASEAN Cooperation in Public Security and National Defence
Brig Vinod Anand, Senior Fellow, VIF

“Our defence cooperation with Vietnam is among our most important ones. India remains committed to the modernization of Vietnam’s defence and security forces.”

---PM Narendra Modi, October 2014

Overvi....

October 16, 2015 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , India , ASEAN , Vietnam , national defence
Army Modernisation is Gathering Momentum
Brig Gurmeet Kanwal

Defence planning in India has been marked by knee jerk reactions to emerging situations and haphazard single-Service growth. The absence of a clearly enunciated national security strategy, the failure to commit funds for weapons and equipment acquisi....

September 25, 2015 Defence , National Security Strategy , Army Modernisation , Defence Preparedness
The Indian Navy: Trendsetter in Indigenisation
Pradeep Chauhan

Preceding Prime Minister Modi’s contemporary clarion call of ‘Make-in-India’ by half a century, the indigenisation drive first launched by the Indian Navy in the 1960s has, over time, matured into a success story worthy of....

July 28, 2015 Defence
Defence Procurement: Learning from Experience
Brig Gurmeet Kanwal

On May 1, 2015, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar, appointed a 10-member committee headed by former Home Secretary Dhirendra Singh, to review the defence procurement policies and procedures and to recommend fresh guidelines with a view to implementin....

July 15, 2015 Defence
Dissecting China’s White Papers on Defence: An Indian Perspective
Brig Vinod Anand, Senior Fellow, VIF

Since 1998 China has been taking out white papers on defence regularly as part of its exercise in military transparency. While such an exercise does have inherent limitations in terms of what it can reveal and what it should conceal yet it serves as ....

July 10, 2015 Defence
Seminar on Make in India & DPP 2013

On May 27, 2015, the VIF put together a panel of eminent policy experts on defence, comprising, among others, serving and retired high ranking military officers, senior bureaucrats and representatives from the defence manufacturing industry for a sem....

June 13, 2015 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Seminars , Make in India , DPP
Seminar on ‘Design and Make in India in Electronics’

With a view to evolve the future roadmap towards building comprehensive national capabilities in design and manufacturing in the Electronic Sector, the VIF, in collaboration with the DRDO, CII and the American Chamber of Commerce in India (AmCham Ind....

June 09, 2015 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Seminars , Make in India , DRDO , AmCham India
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