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Building Air Bridges of Friendship
August 29 , 2024 Air Marshal Diptendu Choudhury (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VM, VSM, Distinguished Fellow, VIF
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The Indian Air Force (IAF) has hosted the largest-ever International Air Exercise that mainland Asia has seen in over six decades. Participants in the Exercise ‘Tarang Shakti’ (Wave Power)-2024 include...

National Security and Strategic Studies, Defence

Tags : Air power in regional security , China air power intimidation , Collective approach to creating deterrence , India key role consolidating regional air security , Indian Air Force , Tarang Shakti

India- Africa Defence Engagement: Towards New Avenues
August 29 , 2024 Ruchita Beri, Senior Fellow, VIF
Article Views: 1311
India and African countries have long standing ties in the defence realm. Traditionally, training and capacity building, deployment of Indian troops for United Nations Peacekeeping (UNPK) missions have ...

Africa, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Africa , China , Defence Exports , Defence Security , India , Indian Navy , ITEC , Maritime cooperation , Narendra Modi , Rajnath Singh

Israel and the HHH- War of Attrition and Revenge
August 28 , 2024 Amb Anil Trigunayat, Distinguished Fellow, VIF
Commentary Views: 1350
July 31 was the casting date for a much-feared escalation in the Middle East as Israeli leadership acknowledged killing of the Hezbollah leader Fouad Shukr (July 30) but keeping enigmatic silence on the...

West Asia, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Biden , Gaza , Hamas , Hezbollah , Houthis , Ismael Haniyeh , Israel , Netanyahu

Kargil After 25 Years: Assessing Technological Impact on India’s Armed Forces
August 22 , 2024 Pankaj Phanase
Commentary Views: 1515
The Kargil war of 1999 was not just a conflict between two traditional rivals but a major direct confrontation between two nuclear powers that had defied global norms by conducting nuclear tests. This s...

National Security and Strategic Studies, Defence

Tags : Intelligence , Israel , Kargil War , surveillance , technology

Uzbekistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan Railroad Proposal Revived
August 21 , 2024 Amb Skand Ranjan Tayal
Commentary Views: 1350
The proposal to construct a railroad from Termez in Uzbekistan to Mzaar-e-Sharif and Kabul in Afghanistan and onwards to Peshawar in Pakistan has been on the drawing boards since 2007. Instability in Af...

International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Afghanistan , Doha 3 , Pakistan , railroad , Uzbekistan

Despite Hiccups, India-Malaysia Ties on Track
August 20 , 2024 Rajesh Singh
Commentary Views: 1356
The India-Malaysia relationship has come a long way since 2019, when Malaysia’s the then Prime Minister Mahathir Mohammad ruined the ties with his uncalled-for remark on Kashmir—he said that ‘New Delhi ...

Governance and Political Studies

Tags : Anwar Ibrahim , CAA , Kashmir , Mahathir Mohammad , Zakir Naik

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