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Lockdown Scenario- A Golden Opportunity for Cyber Criminals
May 08, 2020 Anurag Sharma, Senior Research Associate, VIF Article

“Anyone who thinks that security products alone offer true security is settling for the illusion of security.”1 - Kevin D Mitnick The emergence of Coronavirus (hereafter COVID-19) and its rapid spread has em....

National Security and Strategic Studies , Cyber Security

Tags : Article , India , Cyber Security , Cybercrime , lockdown , COVID19 , Cyberspace , Cybercriminals , Ransomware , Phishing , Child Protection
Beyond the COVID-19: Indian Defence Industry
May 06, 2020 Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM Article

The social media is bulging at seams in making unending predictions by the hour related to the ‘life after Covid’. The continuum ranges from a ‘total doomsday’ scenario painted by the naysayersto the ‘we will win’ and how the life will be....

National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence

Tags : Article , Defence industry , COVID-19 , Challenges of Services , Defence and aerospace sector , Post covid world
The Maoists, Violence, and their ‘Alternate Revolutionary Programme’
May 06, 2020 Dr Uddipan Mukherjee Article

As human beings distance away from each other to deny the corona virus any additional mass and volume, the left-wing insurgents in India's dense jungles converge into south Bastar in central India from neighbouring provinces as well as from Nepal....

Leftwing Extremism , National Security and Strategic Studies

Tags : Article , Maoists , Violence , ideology , Charu Mazumdar , CPI (M) , Lenin , Marx , Mao Tse-tung , New Democratic State , dictatorship of the proletariat
Biotechnology and Biological Warfare – its Applicability to Indian Armed Forces
April 27, 2020 Maj Gen (Retd.) P K Chakravorty Article

What is Biotechnology? The technology which is based on biology is known as biotechnology which harnesses cellular and bio molecular processes to develop technologies and products that help improve our lives and the health of our planet.....

National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence

Tags : Article , applications , Biotechnology , Biological , Delivery
Drone Swarms: Bracing up with The New Threat
April 27, 2020 Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM Article

(This article linked with a previous article titled, Drone Swarms - a Growing Lethality. Where is the world? Where are we? published on the VIF portal on 06 Apr 20201.While the said article highlighted the growing lethality of th....

National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence

Tags : Article , Defence , Missiles , Hypersonic weapons , Drone swarms , Driven crafts , Swarm Threat
Ramzan Amidst Battle Against Coronavirus
April 24, 2020 Soumya Awasthi Article

Introduction One of the most potent weapons against combatting Covid-19 pandemic is the norm of social distancing. Social congregation is an anathema to the norm of social distancing. Therefore, during the time when Covid-19 has spread it....

National Security and Strategic Studies

Tags : Article , India , COVID-19 , World , Ramzan , Deoband , Social distancing norms , Religious practices
Industry 4.0 Joins Fight to Contain COVID-19
April 21, 2020 Dr Vijay Sakhuja Article

“I have a 3D Printer and I am ready to join the fight against COVID-19” is the buzz among the technology developers. There is euphoria to use 3D printers to manufacture a variety of medical products and equipment such as face masks and shield, Pe....

National Security and Strategic Studies , Governance and Political Studies

Tags : Article , Indian Navy , Industry 4.0 , COVID-19 , Additive Manufacturing , 3D printing , Ventilators , Facemasks
Corona - Biological War and Other Connotations
April 21, 2020 Col Pradeep Jaidka (Retd.) Article

The intensity and spread of Corona virus has been unprecedented in the world. All previous calamities either effected smaller regions or petered out with time. In terms of death ‘Black Death’ caused up to 75-200 million people in Eurasia and Nort....

National Security and Strategic Studies

Tags : Article , Corona spread , China’s role , Economic effects , Short , Medium and Long Term Implications , India specific Unique Challenges , Limitations , Responses
Covid-19 and India’s Maoists
April 15, 2020 DR P V Ramana Commentary

Even as the country is under a lockdown in the wake of COVID-19, also being referred to as novel Corona virus, alleged sympathisers of Naxalites of the Communist Party of India (Maoist), Maoists in short, Gautam Navlakha and Anand Teltumbde have been....

Leftwing Extremism , National Security and Strategic Studies

Tags : Commentary , COVID-19 , Urban Maoists , Expansion of bases , Relief from courts , Recruitment
Armed Forces in Aid to Civilian Authorities in COVID-19 environment
April 14, 2020 Jaideep Chanda Article

COVID-19 has tested healthcare and associated infrastructure of nations like nothing else before. There are precedents e.g. the Spanish Flu, but none on the scale of COVID-19. Under such a catastrophic environment, the role of the Armed Forces in ass....

National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence

Tags : Article , Army , Indian Navy , CDS , COVID-19 , Quarantine , IAF , Force preservation , Assistance Civil authorities , logistics
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