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The Russia-Ukraine War 2022: A Point of No Return?
Lt Gen (Dr) Rakesh Sharma (Retd.), Distinguished Fellow, VIF

On 24 February 2022, President Vladimir Putin announced ‘special military operation,’ the beginning of land, sea, and air offensive against Ukraine. The Western Pundits had forecast that the war under the onslaught of Russian famed military and t

September 28, 2022 International Relations and Diplomacy, Russia, Article, Russia, Nuclear, Referendum, Ukraine, EU, Donetsk, Luhansk, Donbas
पूर्वी लद्दाख में विघटन और इसके बड़े प्रभावों पर विचार
Lt Gen (Dr) Rakesh Sharma (Retd.), Distinguished Fellow, VIF

8 सितंबर 2022 को पूर्वी लद्दाख के चुशुल-मोल्दो में चीन-भारत कोर कमांडर स्तर की 16वें दौर की बैठक के 50 द

September 19, 2022 International Relations and Diplomacy, China, Hindi, Article, चीन, एलएसी, लद्दाख, पूर्वी लद्दाख, गलवान नदी, राकी नाला, शिनजियांग, पीएलएएएफ
Next Step in Disengagement in Eastern Ladakh and Contemplating Larger Implications
Lt Gen (Dr) Rakesh Sharma (Retd.), Distinguished Fellow, VIF

On 8th September 2022, 50 days after the 16th Round of China-India Corps Commander Level Meeting at Chushul-Moldo in Eastern Ladakh, consensus was reached on disengagement of the Chinese and Indian troops in the area of Jianan La (Daban) also designa

September 13, 2022 National Security and Strategic Studies, Article, PLA, logistics, LAC, Ladakh, Infrastructure, PP15
China’s transition from Hiding to Showing its Strength! India’s Determined March to Developed Nation – 2047
Lt Gen (Dr) Rakesh Sharma (Retd.), Distinguished Fellow, VIF

It is said that Mandarin is a nuanced language, where multiple meanings can be drawn and where even the tone in which it is spoken can completely change the meaning. What Deng Xiaoping said in 1989-90 has had many versions, the commonest being, ‘h

August 22, 2022 International Relations and Diplomacy, China, Article, India, Taiwan, CCP, PLA, Rejuvenation, China Dream, nuclear arsenal, periphery
Modern Warfare and Structural Transformation
Lt Gen (Dr) Rakesh Sharma (Retd.), Distinguished Fellow, VIF

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 that had outlived their utility and relevance. Th

July 26, 2022 National Security and Strategic Studies, Defence, Article, doctrine, Future Force, Integration, Jointness, theaterisation
नव-सेना में बदलाव को सुधारना
Lt Gen (Dr) Rakesh Sharma (Retd.), Distinguished Fellow, VIF

सेना में सुधार का मतलब है उसकी प्रकृति और रूप में स्पष्ट बदलाव लाना-जो अमूमन उसकी बेहतरी के लिए �

June 22, 2022 National Security and Strategic Studies, Defence, Hindi, Article, सेना, एआइएसी, रिक्रूटेबल मेल पॉपुलेशन (आरएमपी), रेजिमेंट्स
Transforming-transformation into neo-Army
Lt Gen (Dr) Rakesh Sharma (Retd.), Distinguished Fellow, VIF

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
Learning to Win Wars, Not Just Battles!
Lt Gen (Dr) Rakesh Sharma (Retd.), Distinguished Fellow, VIF

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
Military Situation in Ukraine
Lt Gen (Dr) Rakesh Sharma (Retd.), Distinguished Fellow, VIF

Join Lt Gen (Dr) Rakesh Sharma, PVSM, UYSM, AVSM, VSM, (Retd) and Shashank Sharma for a discussion on the operational and tactical aspects of the military situation as the Russian special military operation launched against Ukraine on 24 Feb 22 enter

April 23, 2022 International Relations and Diplomacy, Russia, Crimea, Podcast, Military operations, Ukraine Crisis, Black Sea, Mariupol, Russo-Ukraine conflict, Kherson, Kyiv, Donbass, Moskuva
Russo-Ukraine War 2022: Sifting the Maze of Russian Political Policy and Military Strategy
Lt Gen (Dr) Rakesh Sharma (Retd.), Distinguished Fellow, VIF

The best teacher of war is war itself! With a month behind us of the Russo-Ukraine war, it is imperative to rationalise and focus on the war itself, without referral to logic behind the war, the global geopolitics and weaponisation of economics and g

March 30, 2022 International Relations and Diplomacy, Russia, Article, US, Russia, Ukraine, Crimea, Military Strategy, Donetsk, Luhansk, Mariupol, Azove Battalion, Kherson, political policy
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