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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 , Terrorism , Security , Pandemic , Pakistan , North-East , National Security Strategy , national security , Left Wing Extremism , Jammu and Kashmir , Internal Security , insurgency , COVID-19 , Coronavirus , China
Drone Swarms -a Growing Lethality…. Where is the World? Where are We?
Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM, Distinguished Fellow, VIF Article

The credit of using the unmanned platform for the first time goes to Austria, when in1849 it attacked the Italian city of Venice using unmanned balloons loaded with explosives1. Surely, the Austrian warriors could have never imagined that ....

April 06, 2020 Defence , National Security and Strategic Studies , Article , weaponised drones , UAV-X , Kamikaze drone , Drone swarms , drone capabilities , autonomous warfare , artificial intelligence , Air defence
Rewriting the New Narrative of Jammu and Kashmir
Brig Narender Kumar, SM, VSM Article

Introduction
Disjunction between the law and state can lead to systemic decay that breed corruption, instability, violence and erosion of institutions of governance. Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) is victim of the disjunction that allowed state ....

March 23, 2020 Jammu & Kashmir , National Security and Strategic Studies , Article , Stone pelters , Radicalisation , Proxy War , Pakistan strategy , Over Ground Workers , Economic impact , Cross border terrorism , Challenges , Article 370 , 35 A
Defence Exports: Analysing the Armenian Success
Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM, Distinguished Fellow, VIF Article

On 01 Mar 2020, the media was abuzz with the breaking news of India having won a 40 million USD contract to supply four Swathi Weapon Locating Radars (WLR) to Armenia beating strong competitors like Russia and Poland1. A contract of th....

March 18, 2020 Defence , National Security and Strategic Studies , Article , Swathi WLR , radars , DRDO , DPSU , Defence Exports , BrahMos , Akash missile
Challenges of Building Disaster Resilient Indian Smart Cities
Dr. Swati Mitra Article

March, 8, 2020: The world is gripped with the fear of COVID-19, including India. December 9, 2019: More 42 people killed in the Delhi Fire incident July 16, 2019: Building collapses in India’s Maximum City Mumbai killing 7 and trappin....

March 12, 2020 Disaster Management , National Security and Strategic Studies , Article , Smart City , Singapore Smart City , Japanese Smart City , Indian Smart City Concept
Cyber Wargame - An Indian Scenario
Maj Gen P K Mallick, VSM (Retd), Consultant, VIF Article

Introduction
Immediately after the first gulf war in the early 1990’s the theories of Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA) and Information Warfare were being studied all over the world as a new kind of warfare. During that time, a cours....

March 02, 2020 Cyber Security , National Security and Strategic Studies , Article , STUXNET , RMA , Indian scenario , Cyber Wars , cyber defence planning , cyber breach
Creating an Effective CDS for India’s National Defence
VIF Study Group Report Article

Background
Nearly two decades after submission of the Kargil Review Committee (KRC) report in 1999, the Group of Ministers (GOM) Report in 2001 and recommendations of the Naresh Chandra Task Force in 2012, the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS)....

February 13, 2020 Defence , National Security and Strategic Studies , Article , MoD reforms , Guidelines on CDS function , Govt CDS initiative , CDS
Pegasus— A Powerful Tool of WhatsApp Surveillance
Anurag Sharma, Research Associate, VIF Article

The Facebook’s subsidiary company—WhatsApp, on 29 October 2019, filed a lawsuit in the United States California’s Northern District Federal Court against Israel-based cyber-arms1 firm— the NSO Group, for infecting ‘specific’ gr....

February 05, 2020 CyberEspionage , Israel , WhatsApp , India , Pegasus , CyberSurveillance , NationalSecurity , technology , Malware , Spoofing , Article , National Security and Strategic Studies , Cyber Security
Shielding the Future Generation from Adverse Effects of Cyber Penetration
Brig Vinod Anand, Senior Fellow, VIF Article

(This is an updated version of the Valedictory Address given by the author during the Responsible Netism 4th National Cyber Psychology Conference 2020 on ‘Child Online Protection’ organized by Ahaan Foundation and Cyber Peace Foundation at Pun....

February 04, 2020 Cyber Security , National Security and Strategic Studies , Article , POSCO. IT Act , parental guidance , Internet Addiction , grooming , Cyber games , cyber crime , cyber bullying
Terrorism and Counter Terrorism: Review of Year 2019 and Projections for 2020
Anurag Sharma, Research Associate, VIF Article

The year 2019 had significant developments in global terrorism. The review covers the important activities of terrorism and counter-terrorism (CT) around the globe. There have been ongoing conflicts in Iraq, Syria and Yemen which includes terrorist a....

January 22, 2020 Terrorism , Counter-terrorism , national security , India , Srilanka , UnitedKingdom , IslamicState , al-Qaeda , al-Qaida , Pakistan , Afghanistan , Article , National Security and Strategic Studies , Terrorism
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