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Jammu & Kashmir- On the Path to Nowhere: Review of Security and Political Developments
C D Sahay

From security perspective, the events in Jammu & Kashmir during the year 2016 and in the first four months of the current year, present an extremely confusing, disturbing and challenging scenario. These also necessarily got reflected in the overall p....

May 18, 2017 Jammu & Kashmir , National Security and Strategic Studies
The 19th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party
Jayadeva Ranade

The upcoming 19th Congress of the nearly 88-million strong Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is important not only for Xi Jinping and China, but potentially for China’s neighbours and the world. It will consolidate the course on which China is set. ....

May 18, 2017 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , China , Chinese Communist Party
Kazakhstan: Emerging Player on the World Stage
Dr Rashmini Koparkar

Kazakhstan has assumed non-permanent membership of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) for the tenure of 2017-18. It is the first Central Asian Republic (CAR) to join this supreme body. Kazakhstan is a young nation that gained independence i....

May 17, 2017 International Relations and Diplomacy , Neighbourhood Studies , Central Asia , Central Asia , Kazakhstan , UNSC , Emerging Player , Eurasian Economic Union
Treating the ‘Disease of Disconnection’

Author’s Note The previous paper by this author, while addressing the broader concerns and implications of Daesh for the Indian context, built on theoretical insights from multidisciplinary domains in pursuit of a possible count....

May 17, 2017 Terrorism , National Security and Strategic Studies , Counter-terrorism , radicalization , Violent Extremism
मानव ढाल: कश्मीर में सेना के युवा अधिकारियों के सामने रोज़ रहती हैं असामान्य परिस्थितियां
Brig Gurmeet Kanwal

बडगाम की घटना को सही संदर्भ में देखा जाना चाहिए। किसी बंधक को मानव ढाल की तरह इस्तेमाल करना न त�....

May 17, 2017 Media Studies , कश्मीर घाटी , खूनखराबे , चुनौतीपूर्ण परिस्थिति
Stoke the Indigenous Fire - A Way Ahead for Army Air Defence
Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM

Abstract Having been associated first hand with the twin process of sustenance of an ageing and vintage inventory of Ground Based Air Defence Weapon Systems (GBADWS) of the Corps of Army Air Defence (AAD) on one hand and the ....

May 15, 2017 National Security and Strategic Studies , Air defence , modernisation , Indigenisation
Achievements: India-Vietnam Defence and Security Cooperation
Brig Vinod Anand, Senior Fellow, VIF

“We realise that our efforts to bring economic prosperity to our people need to be accompanied by steps to secure them. Prime Minister and I have, therefore, agreed to deepen our defence and security engagement to advance our common interests. T....

May 12, 2017 International Relations and Diplomacy , security cooperation , South China Sea , Indo-Vietnam relations , Indo-Vietnam defence cooperation , Ho Chi Minh , Modi visit to Vietnam , Indian military
क्या भारत को चाहिए पाकिस्तान के साथ युद्ध की नई नीति?
Abhinav Pandya

पिछले 70 वर्ष से पाकिस्तान भारत से सीधे या दूसरों को शह देकर छद्म युद्ध करता आ रहा है। सीधे युद्ध �....

May 12, 2017 National Security and Strategic Studies , India , Pakistan , War , पाकिस्तान , युद्ध , परमाणु , धार्मिक कट्टरपंथ
Modernisation of Artillery- A Quantum Jump
Maj Gen (Retd.) P K Chakravorty

Quantum Jump- Artillery Modernisation The Indian Artillery is currently in a Network Centric Warfare (NCW) Environment and has to provide Surveillance and Reconnaissance resulting in Target Acquisition, which would lead to engagem....

May 11, 2017 Technological and Scientific Studies , developments , War , modernisation , Artillery , Modernisation of Artillery , Quantum Jump , Network Centric Warfare
Round Table Discussion on Deep-Water Gas Pipeline

Dr T N Rao, on behalf of South Asia Gas Enterprise Private Ltd (SAGE), a consortium led by the Indian Siddho Mal Group, laid out a presentation for the VIF faculty on building a deep-water, trans-national, natural gas pipeline system from the Middle....

May 10, 2017 Conference , International Relations and Diplomacy , Central Asia , Conferences , Gas pipeline , SAGE , SAGE Vision , MEIDP
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