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Swarm Drones: Attacker’s Delight, Defender’s Nightmare

Ever since the emergence of the unmanned phenomenon, the warfare has never been the same. Starting from their very humble beginnings of giving the war-fighter the marginally incremental capability to ‘look around the corner and over the hill’ the....

May 28, 2020 National Security and Strategic Studies , Warfare , Swarm Drones , UAS , Growing Lethality , SWARM Task Sheet , SWARM
Decoding India-China Standoff at the LAC
Lt Gen AS Bedi (Retd.) Article

Recently, a distinguished author in an article in a prominent Indian newspaper while giving a detailed account of the India China border dispute has brought out some pertinent and relevant facts. However, while the facts may be appropriate, these hav....

May 28, 2020 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Article , Sikkim , LAC , Ladakh , Galwan valley , Differing Perceptions , Nakula
Indian Navy: Time to Explore Drone Motherships
Dr Vijay Sakhuja Commentary

Technological disruptions led by Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) technologies are now a common feature among the advanced navies. Smart, intelligent, predictive and cognitive technologies are being added to the menu of naval warfare. The military/....

May 26, 2020 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Commentary , 4IR technologies , Drone Mothership , UAV , UUV) , Indian Navy , Make in India , Atma Nirbhar Bharat , FDI , DTIS
DTIS – Keeping up the Pace and Momentum
Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM Article

On 30 Apr 2020 the Prime Minister (PM) held a meeting with various stakeholders to discuss ways to boost the Defence and Aerospace sector1. Within a fortnight of this important meeting, the Defence Minister has launched the Defence Testing....

May 25, 2020 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Article , MoD , DTIS , Testing and Integration , Make-I , Make-II
What Terrorists Want: Understanding the Enemy, Containing the Threat by Prof Louise Richardson, Publishers: Random House/New York, 2006, USD 25.95
Anurag Sharma, Senior Research Associate, VIF

Professor Louise Richardson’s book “What Terrorists Want” is one of the primers on the study of terrorism. The book is organised in two parts— 1) The Terrorists, consists of five chapters and 2) The Counter terrorists which consists of....

May 24, 2020 Terrorism , National Security and Strategic Studies , Terrorism , LTTE , Book Reviews , Social life , Irish Republican Army , PLO
In The Name of the Nation: India and Its Northeast by Sanjib Baruah, Stanford University Press: Stanford, 2020, 297 pp, ISBN: 9781503610705
Hirak Jyoti Das, Senior Research Associate, VIF

In the Name of the Nation: India and its North East, authored by Sanjib Baruah interrogates the interaction of North East India with the territorial conceptions of the post colonial nation-state and state sovereignty. The North Eastern Region consist....

May 23, 2020 National Security and Strategic Studies , Assam , Book Reviews , Nation , India and Its Northeast , Sanjib Baruah , North Eastern Region
In their Own Words-Understanding Lashkar-e-Tayyaba by C. Christine Fair, Second Edition; By Christine Fair; India: Oxford University Press, 2019. 303pp. ISBN 10: 0-19-949521-1
Soumya Awasthi

The goal of every state is to survive. Many countries adopt various kinds of strategies to achieve their ends. The strategies are a mix of military, economic and diplomatic ways and means to realise their policy goals. However, in the case of Pakista....

May 20, 2020 Terrorism , National Security and Strategic Studies , LeT , Book Reviews , Understanding Lashkar , C. Christine Fair , Lashkar
Achieving Self Reliance through Indigenous R&D by DRDO /Industry - Part II

India is at the cusp of metamorphosing from a regional player to one with global clout. As India’s geo-political and economic ambitions grow, it needs to develop robust indigenous manufacturing capabilities and ecosystem to secure its ambition for ....

May 20, 2020 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , DRDO , Defence industry , Self Reliance , R&D , Indigenous , Aerospace , SIPRI
कोरोना – जैविक युद्ध और अन्य निहितार्थ
Col Pradeep Jaidka (Retd.) Article

कोरोनावायरस की तीव्रता और प्रसार दुनिया के लिए अभूतपूर्व रहा है। इससे पहले की सभी महामारियों क....

May 15, 2020 National Security and Strategic Studies , Article , बीआरआई , चीन , सोशल मीडिया , वैश्विक अर्थव्यवस्था , कोरोनावायरस , महामारी , कोरोना
Kashmir: Another one Bites the Dust—HM Commander Naikoo Eliminated
Anurag Sharma, Senior Research Associate, VIF Article

The pandemic of COVID-19 may have halted or transformed the way of carrying out activities around the world, but nothing has changed in India’s counter-terrorism operations in the Kashmir Valley. These remain very robust and strongly driven by accu....

May 15, 2020 Terrorism , National Security and Strategic Studies , Article , India; Riyaz Naikoo; Gazi Haider; Ghazi; Saifullah; Pakistan; Hizbul Mujahideen; LeT; Kashmir Terrorism; Zakir Musa; Burhan Wani; Awantipora; Shopian; Syed Salahuddin; ISI
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