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Viksit Bharat: Bracing for Strategic Contestations: Political Management of India’s Military Institution
November 6 , 2024 Lt Gen Gautam Banerjee
Article Views: 31
It was in the post-1962 period that the shape of India’s indigenous system of national defence began shaping-up – at the intervention of Communist China. That was when after centuries of strategic quara...

National Security and Strategic Studies, Defence

Tags : blending hoary warrior culture with indigenisation , curative ventures in military management , Military security in Viksit Bharat

Uzbekistan’s Pragmatic Engagement with Afghanistan: Significant for the Region
November 5 , 2024 Amb Skand Ranjan Tayal
Commentary Views: 42
During a recent visit to Tashkent, I had attended the roundtable on ‘Foreign Policy of Uzbekistan: Openness and Prosperity for Peace’ on 25 October 2024. The speakers were some of the prominent policy m...

Central Asia, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Afghanistan , Amu Darya , Friendship Bridge , Gas Fields , IMU , railway line , trade

From Operation Desert Hawk to Indo-Pakistani War of 1965
November 4 , 2024 Saudiptendu Ray, Research Associate, VIF
Article Views: 74
About 59 years ago, in the year 1965, India was experiencing an extreme food shortage across the country. The monsoon had failed badly in the year, and the subsequent droughts had severely impacted food...

Historical and Civilisational Studies

Tags : 1965 , Ayub Khan , Battle of Asal Uttar , Battle of Haji Pir Pass , Indo Pakistani War , Operation Desert Hawk , Operation Gibraltar , Opre

Does India Need a Strategy of Strategies?
October 30 , 2024 Air Marshal Diptendu Choudhury (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VM, VSM, Distinguished Fellow, VIF
Article Views: 185
As the India and China have finally reached a deal on patrolling their disputed frontier to end a four-year long military stand-off to pave way for resetting the political and business ties between the ...

National Security and Strategic Studies

Tags : Bhagavad Gita , China , Grand strategy , India , IOR , Kautilya , Raj Dharma , Tejastejasvinamaham

Ganderbal Attack 2024: The Emergence of Pakistan-Sponsored TRF
October 29 , 2024 Anurag Sharma, Associate Fellow, VIF
Commentary Views: 120
Pakistan has been sponsoring terrorism in Bharat for over the past 30 years to undermine the stability of the Union Territory (UT) of Jammu and Kashmir (hereafter J&K) and other parts of the country...

National Security and Strategic Studies, Terrorism

Tags : Bharat , Ganderbal , India , Islam , Kashmir , LeT , Pakistan , Radicalisation , Terrorism , TRF

A Critical Examination of the SCO Council of Heads of Government Summit in Islamabad
October 28 , 2024 Dr Pravesh Kumar Gupta, Associate Fellow, VIF
Commentary Views: 152
The recent Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Council of Heads of Government (CHG) Summit held in Islamabad has garnered significant attention due to the regional dynamics among member countries, p...

Central Asia, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : BRI , Connectivity , CPEC , Gwadar port , SCO summit , Terrorism and Extremism

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