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“Indigenize India’s Military Doctrines, Procedures and Customs too”: PM at Kevadia
June 22, 2021 Brig (Dr) Ashok Pathak (Retd.) Article

PM’s Observation that Created the Ripple Effect On 06 March 2021 the Indian Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi delivered the valedictory address to the Combined Commanders’ Conference at Kevadia in Gujarat. He stressed the “importan....

National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence

Tags : Article , military doctrine , Combined Commanders’ Conference March 2021 Kevadia , JIAFD 2017 , Air Land Battle , PLA Informatized war doctrine , IDF Doctrine , Indian Army Doctrine 2005 , Land Warfare Doctrine 2018
The Absence of Air Power in India’s Security Narratives
June 16, 2021 Air Marshal Diptendu Choudhury (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VM, VSM, Distinguished Fellow, VIF Article

India’s security narrative of the region has been largely driven by the coercive diplomacy which China has chosen to pursue as a part of its national security strategy. Border stand offs in Arunachal in the near recent past and Ladakh currently, un....

National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence

Tags : Article , India , China , South China Sea , Air Force , Indian Ocean , PLAAF , Ladakh , Border stand off
महामारी के समय राष्ट्रीय आपदा प्रबंधन प्राधिकरण को क्रियाशील करने की जरूरत
June 09, 2021 Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF Article

भारत इस समय अभूतपूर्व स्तर पर स्वास्थ्य आपात स्थिति का सामना कर रहा है। कोविड -19 महामारी अब तक 250,00....

National Security and Strategic Studies , Disaster Management

Tags : Hindi , Article , COVID-19 , NDMA , MHA , DDMA , SDMA , आपदा प्रबंधन अधिनियम
Left-Wing Extremism: Contained but Continues to Exist
June 08, 2021 Tejusvi Shukla Article

Based on an intelligence input on the night of 02 April 2021, over 2000 security forces’ (SFs) personnel carried out a major anti-Naxal operation in the Sukma-Bijapur area in Chhattisgarh. However, the anti-Naxal operation soon turned to a “surpr....

Leftwing Extremism , National Security and Strategic Studies

Tags : Article , national security , Internal Security , insurgency , Maoism , poverty , Naxalism , Red Terror , Urban Naxals , Inequality , Bastar , Abhujmad , Tribal
The Social Media Dilemma: From Capitalism to National Security
May 28, 2021 Anushka Saraswat Commentary

Introduction The emergence of social media has challenged modern democracies on multiple fronts-be it enticing violence or communal hatred or concerns of privacy and fake news, making it a new playground of battle. Platforms like Facebook....

National Security and Strategic Studies

Tags : Commentary , national security , Social Media , capitalism , Twitter , Pakistan-China combine
पूर्वी लद्दाख : एनटीआर-सूचनाओं पर ‘भरोसा कीजिए पर जांच-परख कर’!
May 22, 2021 Lt Gen (Dr) Rakesh Sharma (Retd.), Distinguished Fellow, VIF Article

महामारी के तेज गति से और गंभीर होने और मोल्डो (मिलिट्री के सिक्के में अंकित) में 11वें दौर की बातच�....

National Security and Strategic Studies

Tags : Hindi , Article , डब्ल्यूएमसीसी। पीएलए। एलएसी। लद्दाख।देपसांग। पैंगोंग त्सो। सैन्य अभ्यास। पीपीs। राकी नाला।
PM’s call at Kevadia – What is the ‘Big Picture’?
May 21, 2021 Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM Article

Ever since the PM addressed the Combined Commanders Conference in Kevadia on 06 March 2021 the media has been picking up bits and pieces of his address and pitching it as ‘stand-alone agendas’ complete with all the semantics aimed to sensationali....

National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence

Tags : Article , R & D , Defence Exports , Combined Commanders' Conference , imports , military doctrine , OFB , PM's message , weapons & equipment
The Need to Activate the National Disaster Management Authority in Pandemic Times
May 18, 2021 Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF Article

India is facing a health emergency of unprecedented proportions. The Covid-19 pandemic has already claimed over 250,000 lives and infected over 24 million people in India. It is now rapidly spreading to rural areas where health infrastructure is mea....

National Security and Strategic Studies , Disaster Management

Tags : Article , COVID-19 , NDMA , MHA , Disaster Management Act , DDMA , SDMA
Maoist Menace Calls for a Different Ball Game
May 13, 2021 Dr P M Nair Article

The massacre of 37 innocent personnel of the Security Forces (SF) of Government of India and the State Government, on 3rd April in Chhattisgarh, has led to widespread condemnation, even from the Prime Minister. Such mass killing of SF invites serio....

Leftwing Extremism , National Security and Strategic Studies

Tags : Article , Development , CRPF , Security Forces , Kishenji , Lalgarh , Maoist , rural employment
COVID-19 Pandemic and Indian Armed Forces
May 05, 2021 Lt Gen (Dr) Rakesh Sharma (Retd.), Distinguished Fellow, VIF Article

The traditional Tamil treatise, Thirukkural, written over 2,000 years ago had defined a nations’ characteristics, "Pini inmai Selvam Vilaivinbam Emam, aniyenba Nattirkiv vainthu," implying that, "the important elements that constitute a n....

National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence

Tags : Article , Armed forces , COVID-19 , AMC , medical staff , logistics control centres , National and State Crisis Response Centres
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