Articles

Drone Warfare Capacity Building in Securing India’s National Interests

This paper seeks to make a case for the utility of drone warfare in securing India’s national interests. It begins by establishing how drone proliferation acts as a threat and opportunity in the context of India’s security objectives and discusse....

May 11, 2023 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Counter-terrorism , Internal Security , UAV , ISR , Military drones , UACV

Random Thoughts 2021 - Emerging Paradigm Shift in the Changing Global, Political and Economic Order

S Gurumurthy, Chairman, VIF

Random Thoughts 2021 touches upon unusual range of subjects, namely from emerging civilisational, religious and historical issues; to out-of-the-box suggestions for astronomy-based education for conflict avoidance, to how liberal democracies are shor....

December 02, 2021 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Afghanistan , Internal Security , Economic , Taliban , Book Published , Random Thoughts , Global Developments , Border Issues , China-Pakistan Axis , Emerging Strategic Relations , Strategic Partnerships

Left-Wing Extremism: Contained but Continues to Exist

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....

June 08, 2021 Leftwing Extremism , National Security and Strategic Studies , Article , national security , Internal Security , insurgency , Maoism , poverty , Naxalism , Red Terror , Urban Naxals , Inequality , Bastar , Abhujmad , Tribal

Re-calibrating Strategies to Combat Maoists’ Violence

Lt. Gen. (Dr.) Vijay Kumar Ahluwalia PVSM, AVSM**, YSM, VSM (Retd.) Article

The recent dreadful attack by the Communist Party of India (Maoist), Maoists in short, on the joint team of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) including elite elements of Commando Battalion for Resolute Action (CoBRA), District Reserve Guard (DRG) a....

April 07, 2021 National Security and Strategic Studies , Article , Internal Security , Naxalism , Military Doctrine & Strategy , Military Strategy

Rethinking National Security in an Age of Pandemics

PK Khup Hangzo, Associate Fellow, VIF Article

Introduction

National security has traditionally been defined and understood in military terms. This notion of national security focuses on threats such as external armed aggression, Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD), terrorism, insurgenc....

April 10, 2020 National Security and Strategic Studies , Article , Pakistan , China , national security , Internal Security , National Security Strategy , Terrorism , insurgency , Jammu and Kashmir , Security , Coronavirus , COVID-19 , Pandemic , North-East , Left Wing Extremism

Internal Security Budget 2019-20: Ad-hocism to Systematic Coherence

... ensuring peace, safety and security of its people and properties and upholding the rule of law is one of the most important responsibilities of the state ... this makes internal security a complex phenomenon in India’s comprehensive national se....

March 26, 2019 National Security and Strategic Studies , Internal Security , Internal Security Budget , CAPF , Indian Cyber Crime

India's Foreign Policy and National Security Strategy

Has India always been a part of someone else's strategy? A RAND Corporation study argues that India thinks defensively due to the geography and cultural belief systems, so India never had a strategic culture. There is also the argument that India's s....

November 20, 2018 National Security and Strategic Studies , Internal Security , national defence , India's Foreign Policy , Book Published , Neighbourhood , RAND Corporation , War game

Commentary: The Tapi Pipeline: Economics vs Politics

Tilak Devasher, Consultant, VIF Commentary

In February 2018, leaders from Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India inaugurated the 1700 km Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) pipeline. Functions were held in Serhetabat and Herat with the leaders expressing hope that trade and ....

March 23, 2018 Economic Studies , Commentary , India , Pakistan , TAPI , Tapi Pipeline , Afghanistan , Kabul , Internal Security , TAPI security

Homeland Security Conference 2017 – Modernisation of India’s Internal Security Mechanism

Objective of the Conference The Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI), and Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF), organised a two day conference at the FICCI House, New Delhi on May 24-25, 2017 on the....

June 28, 2017 Conference , National Security and Strategic Studies , Conferences , Internal Security , FICCI , Homeland Security Conference , 2017 , Procurement Transformation

India : Confronting Internal Security Challenges

Lt Gen Kamal Davar (Retd)

Since the advent of independence, India has faced multitude of security challenges to its nationhood - both external and internal - and to its emergence as a deservingly significant player in the global order. Located in one of the most security a....

May 19, 2017 National Security and Strategic Studies , Internal Security , J&K , Maoism