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Managing India-US Defence Partnership Across Transition

A New Leader on the Stage Trump’s second Presidency of the US (2.0) is just a few days away. The change seems potentially disruptive, for which the world is bracing up. Interestingly, Newsweek, on 14 September 2024, published a list of words that...

January 3 , 2025

Changes in India’s Defence Technology Development Policies Over the Decade

“A renaissance is imperative for us to once again become a knowledge superpower rather than simply providing cheap labour in areas of high technology.” Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Introduction Over the last decade, there has been a growing realisation of `...

May 29 , 2024

PM’s US Visit Done –The `Journey’ Begins Now

(This article may be read in conjunction with an earlier article by the same author, titled, “Next Phase of India-US Strategic Partnership: Maximise Hope Without Underestimating Challenges”. Prime Minister Modi recently concluded a landmark state...

July 13 , 2023

India-US Strategic Partnership: Entering a New Phase

In this episode of VIF podcast, Lt. Gen. Anil Ahuja (Retd.), Distinguished Fellow, VIF and Dr. Sweta Kumari, Associate Fellow, VIF, discuss developments taking place with regards to India- US relations particularly in the areas of defence and...

June 21 , 2023

India and US Engagement: Deliberate and Determined Delivery

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the US has become the focus of discussion amongst the strategic community across the world. Being dubbed as “the most consequential, comprehensive strategic partnership”, India-US ties have withstood...

June 20 , 2023

Talk by Amb. Arun Kumar Singh

The Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF) organised a talk by Amb. Arun Kumar Singh on “An Assessment of the New US-India Initiative on Critical and Emerging Technologies (iCET)” on February 23, 2023. Dr. Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF, chaired...

June 20 , 2023

Next Phase of India- US Strategic Partnership: Maximise Hope without Underestimating Challenges

Background The momentum for the forthcoming State visit of PM Modi to the US, scheduled to commence June 21, 2023, is building up progressively. In the run-up to the visit, US Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin was in Delhi on June 04-05; followed by...

June 19 , 2023

India-US Defence Cooperation: Assessing US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin’s Visit to India

Introduction US Secretary of Defence Lloyd J. Austin III was on a crucial visit to India from 4-5 June 2023 to discuss and explore ways to further strengthen the India-US defence and strategic partnership. During the visit, the two sides discussed a...

June 19 , 2023

Evolution of Indo-US Relations: From Estranged Democracies to Engaged Democracies

From being what Dennis Kux, the US diplomat and author, called ‘estranged democracies’, India –U.S.A relationship has been transformed to ‘Comprehensive Global Strategic Partnership’. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s current visit to USA is certainly...

September 26 , 2021

India – US 2+2 Dialogue: Forging a Predictable Defence Relationship

Introduction The recently concluded India – US 2+2 dialogue (October 26- 27, 2020), third in this series, is a pointer towards the two countries converging substantially in overcoming the often lamented `hesitation of history’. Coming just days...

November 2 , 2020