Indigenisation: A New Awakening- Where are We Headed?
Setting the Perspective
Change Language
Defence
Transforming-transformation into neo-Army
The essence of transformation in the military is to create a marked change in its character or form – mostly for the better, and moving away from the legacy systems. Normally this transforming transformation perspective is relevant to ‘how we wil....
May 31, 2022 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Commentary , Army , AIAC , Recruitable Male Population (RMP) , regiments
Russia’s Military Understanding of Air Power: Structural & Doctrinal Aspects
The fog of war continues to hangover Ukraine even after eighty days, especially with facts difficult to discern amongst the information war running in parallel, biased reportage, and contradictory narratives based on the wide swath of international p....
May 23, 2022 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Article , Russia , Air defence , S-400 , Ukraine , Air Power , SAM , VKS , Aleksandr Zelin , MANPADS , SEAD , Sergey Shoigu , VVS
Learning to Win Wars, Not Just Battles!
The Russo-Ukraine War 2022 has clearly indicated that warfare is changing at dramatic rate and scope and historical similarities might not provide any guidance to the future ones. Our experience of past wars would be divorced from realities of 21st C....
May 14, 2022 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Article , Ukraine , PGMs , Human Rights , Mariupol , battlespace , logistics planning , political strategy , tanks
Discussion with Chairman DRDO on Self Reliance in Defence Technologies
VIF organised a round table discussion among Dr G Satheesh Reddy, the Secretary, Department of Defence R&D and Chairman DRDO (Defence Research and Development Organisation), the strategic community and representatives from the private Indian defence ....
May 03, 2022 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Interaction , DRDO , Self Reliance , R&D , Ministry of Defence , Defence Technologies , Transfer of Technology
Ukraine: How is the Air and Air Defence War Unfolding ?
A Sequel
This work is the sequel to the author’s earlier work titled, “Why the Ukrainian skies are still contested” available at www.vifindia.org[1]. Building on the thread of the earlie....April 21, 2022 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Article , Russo-Ukrainian war , Air war in Ukraine , Russia’s air war
Russia-Ukraine War: A Game of Vain Military Venture?
Military Theories Unheeded
Traditionally, over the centuries, the Russians have been the pioneers of original military strategic thinking. Even the world’s leading military thinkers, mainly the Prussians/Germans and British, have been ....March 28, 2022 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Article , Russia-Ukraine War , obdurate expansionism , the blunder of Ukraine War , killing fields of Ukraine , bleeding Ukraine for selfish agenda , wanton destruction
Why the Ukrainian Skies are still Contested- An Assessment
The posers that demand an answer:-
This work attempts an answer to the following posers in the context of the on-going air war between Russia and Ukraine:-- How the forces measured up on both sides?
- How come till date, a....
March 24, 2022 International Relations and Diplomacy , Defence , Article , Russo-Ukraine war , Russian air power , Ukraine air war , air battle in Ukrainian skies , Russian air campaign
India: Gearing Up for National Defence
Covenant of Defence Modernisation
In a welcome change from the past, particularly in the post-Doklam 2017 period, the nation is witnessing a coalescence of sensitivities on matters of national defence. This is a welcome attitudinal change ....March 19, 2022 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Article , Defence modernisation , competency of defence preparedness , roots of military deficits , ideating defence policies , principle of ‘military necessity’ , deterring neighbourhood aggression
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Drone swarms - a grave threat. Where are we?
Mass swarms of dozens or hundreds of drones guided by AI are increasingly being touted as the new lethal threats in the modern battlefield. The world got a taste of this emerging military technology in May 2021 during the 11-day conflict between Isr....
March 14, 2022 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , artificial intelligence , AI , Drone swarms , Podcast , Drones Collaborative Behaviour in Denied Environment (CODE) , FLOCK 93 , Tactical High Power Operational Responder (THOR)
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