सेना में सुधार का मतलब है उसकी प्रकृति और रूप में स्पष्ट बदलाव लाना-जो अमूमन उसकी बेहतरी के लिए �....
Tags : Hindi , Article , सेना , एआइएसी , रिक्रूटेबल मेल पॉपुलेशन (आरएमपी) , रेजिमेंट्स
Setting the Perspective The Recent Past It was not very long ago when the word ‘indigenisation’ of defence equipment used to draw passive and uninspiring thoughts in the mind. Handled by a solitary branch under the Corps of EM....
Tags : Article , Make in India , Atmanirbhar Bharat , Indigenisation of defence equipment , indigenisation policy , iDEX
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....
Tags : Commentary , Army , AIAC , Recruitable Male Population (RMP) , regiments
The fog of war continues to hangover Ukraine even after eighty days, especially with facts difficult to discern amongst the information war running in parallel, biased reportage, and contradictory narratives based on the wide swath of international p....
Tags : Article , Russia , Air defence , S-400 , Ukraine , Air Power , SAM , VKS , Aleksandr Zelin , MANPADS , SEAD , Sergey Shoigu , VVS
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....
Tags : Article , Ukraine , PGMs , Human Rights , Mariupol , battlespace , logistics planning , political strategy , tanks
A Sequel This work is the sequel to the author’s earlier work titled, “Why the Ukrainian skies are still contested” available at www.vifindia.org[1]. Building on the thread of the earlie....
Tags : Article , Russo-Ukrainian war , Air war in Ukraine , Russia’s air war
Military Theories Unheeded Traditionally, over the centuries, the Russians have been the pioneers of original military strategic thinking. Even the world’s leading military thinkers, mainly the Prussians/Germans and British, have been ....
Tags : Article , Russia-Ukraine War , obdurate expansionism , the blunder of Ukraine War , killing fields of Ukraine , bleeding Ukraine for selfish agenda , wanton destruction
The posers that demand an answer:- This work attempts an answer to the following posers in the context of the on-going air war between Russia and Ukraine:- How the forces measured up on both sides? How come till date, a....
Tags : Article , Russo-Ukraine war , Russian air power , Ukraine air war , air battle in Ukrainian skies , Russian air campaign
Covenant of Defence Modernisation In a welcome change from the past, particularly in the post-Doklam 2017 period, the nation is witnessing a coalescence of sensitivities on matters of national defence. This is a welcome attitudinal change ....
Tags : Article , Defence modernisation , competency of defence preparedness , roots of military deficits , ideating defence policies , principle of ‘military necessity’ , deterring neighbourhood aggression
The Trigger Event The morning chill on the 21stof Jan 22 got broken with a ‘warm’ news from the DRDO announcing the successful test firing of the Brahmos supersonic cruise missile from its test range in Odisha. While many will see th....
Tags : BrahMos , Babur , cruise missiles , Nirbhay , Chinese cruise missile threat , Pakistan cruise missile threat