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Significance of Exercise ‘Gagan Shakti-2018’

The Indian Air Force (IAF) carried out a massive pan-India Exercise ‘Gagan Shakti 2018’ from 08-22 Apr 2018 involving practically the entire operational and logistic component of the IAF. What is the significance of the exercise? India faces f....

May 07, 2018 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Commentary , Exercise Gagan Shakti , Indian Air Force

Commentary: Modi-Xi Informal Summit: Striving to Achieve Equilibrium

Brig Vinod Anand, Senior Fellow, VIF Commentary

The informal summit between Modi and Xi has taken place at an appropriate time when one looks at both the global and regional situation as also at the domestic situations in both the countries. While the statements made by the Indian and Chinese side....

May 04, 2018 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Commentary

Commentary: Exploring India-Russia cultural linkages at 70

Dr Arpita Mitra Commentary

The historic city of Saint Petersburg was recently the venue for the Third Conference of Indologists organized by the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR). Since 2015, the ICCR has been organizing a series of annual conferences of Indologists....

May 03, 2018 Historical and Civilisational Studies , Commentary , India-Russia cultural linkages , ICCR , Conference of Indologists , Indo-Russian ties

Commentary: The Fifth India-China Strategic Economic Dialogue

Dr Teshu Singh Commentary

The swelling trade deficit with China has emerged as key area of concern in India’s bilateral ties. Some fear a hollowing out of large segments of Indian industrial capacity. It is in this background that the fifth India-China Strategic Economic di....

May 03, 2018 Economic Studies , Commentary , India-China trade deficit , Strategic Economic Dialogue

Commentary: Swami Vivekananda’s Impressions about China and Japan

Dr Arpita Mitra Commentary

Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902) was a widely-travelled person. For someone who had not even seen the age of forty, to have travelled so widely in India and other parts of the world was not altogether a chance happening. It was part of the task he was d....

May 02, 2018 Historical and Civilisational Studies , Commentary , Swami Vivekananda; Vivekananda on China and Japan

Commentary: Constitution of the new Defence Panel Chaired by the NSA

G. Mohan Kumar Commentary

Recently, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has constituted a Defence Planning Committee (DPC) chaired by the National Security Advisor (NSA) with the objectives of: (1) Drafting a national security strategy; (2) drawing up a capability developmen....

May 01, 2018 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Commentary , Planning Committee , National Security Strategy , defence manufacturing

Commentary: Air Chief Marshal BS Dhanoa Explains the Role of Indian Air Force in the Changing Security Environment at a Public Lecture

Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF Commentary

At the invitation of Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF), Air Chief Marshal B. S. Dhanoa delivered a public lecture on the “Role of Indian Air Force in National Security”. The lecture was attended by the members of the strategic community....

April 27, 2018 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Commentary , Role of Indian Air Force , modernisation of IAF , Exercise ‘Gagan Shakti

Commentary: Implications of Pakistan on the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) Grey List

Maj Gen (Retd.) P K Chakravorty Commentary

The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) The ‘Group of Seven’ countries, commonly referred as G-7, was conceptualised prior to the 1973 oil crisis. It started with an informal meeting between the US Secretary of the Treasury and....

April 23, 2018 Terrorism , National Security and Strategic Studies , Commentary , FATF Grey List , Pakistan’s terror-finance , FATF

Commentary: PLA Navy’s Major Exercise in the South China Sea: An Analytical Perspective

Brig Vinod Anand, Senior Fellow, VIF Commentary

The massive People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Navy exercises conducted in the second week of April near Hainan and further east, and review of the same by President Xi Jinping come in the wake of evolving strategic situation at the global and regional....

April 19, 2018 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Commentary , South China Sea , Chinese naval exercise , PLA Navy

Commentary: China’s Maritime Infrastructure Projects in the Indian Ocean: Lend and Lease Agreements

Dr Vijay Sakhuja Commentary

Economic corridors, connectivity and port projects, and strategic access arrangements in the Indian Ocean Region resonate in the contemporary oration. Further, China’s 21st Century Maritime Silk Road (MSR), under the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI),....

April 03, 2018 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Commentary , China’s maritime lease , China in Indian Ocean