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China’s Debt Trap Diplomacy in Sri Lanka
July 30 , 2022 Akhila Nair
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What is Going on in Sri Lanka?
Sri Lanka is currently experiencing its worst economic crisis since its independence in 1948, as shortages of food and fuel are causing unrest among the citizens.

China, Sri Lanka, International Relations and Diplomacy, Neighbourhood Studies

Tags : Belt and Road Initiative , Debt diplomacy , Hambantota port , India- Sri Lanka relations , Sri Lanka economic crisis

Remembering Kargil: How it Redefined the Concept of War between India and Pakistan
July 29 , 2022 Dhritiman Mukherjee
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Kargil Vijay Diwas is celebrated every 26th of July to commemorate the valour and sacrifice of our soldiers who fought in the Kargil war of 1999. The war was fought by Indian soldiers in the Kargil dis...

National Security and Strategic Studies, Pakistan, Defence, Neighbourhood Studies

Tags : India , Kargil , nuclear deterrence , Pakistan

What Lies Ahead of the Military Executions in Myanmar?
July 28 , 2022 Dr Cchavi Vasisht
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On 25 July 2022, the Myanmar military executed four prisoners (an NLD member and three other anti-regime protestors)[1]. Even though many of the anti-regime protesters and individuals of ethnic armed gr...

Myanmar, Neighbourhood Studies

Tags : ASEAN , EAOs , Executions , Human Rights , MilitaryCoup , UnitedNations

The Power of the ‘God of War’: Assessing the Russian advantage in Artillery in the Russo-Ukrainian War
July 27 , 2022 Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM
Article Views: 7755
The God of War
Way back in 1944, when the ferocity of World War II was at its peak, Joseph Stalin made a statement; ‘Artillery is the God of War’. His remarks probably related to the fact that most of the combat deaths in the two World Wars and in fact

National Security and Strategic Studies, Defence, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Artillery , Donbas , Russia , Ukraine

Modern Warfare and Structural Transformation
July 26 , 2022 Lt Gen (Dr) Rakesh Sharma (Retd.), Distinguished Fellow, VIF
Article Views: 6315
Prime Minister Narender Modi in a valedictory address at the Combined Commanders Conference at Kevadia, Gujarat on 05 March 2021 stressed upon the armed forces to shed the legacy systems and practices t...

National Security and Strategic Studies, Defence

Tags : doctrine , Future Force , Integration , Jointness , theaterisation

DRDO-Industry Interaction on Improving the Defence R&D Ecosystem
July 25 , 2022 Naval Jagota Shashank Sharma
Article Views: 6884
(VIF organized an interaction among DRDO, Indian defence industry and the strategic community on 8th June 2022 on synergizing the Defence R&D ecosystem in India. Mr Hari Babu Srivastava, Director Ge...

National Security and Strategic Studies, Defence

Tags : Atmanirbhar Bharat , Defense , DRDO , Ecosystem , initiatives , R&D , start-up's , Technology Management

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