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This is the way World Ends : How Droughts and Die-offs, Heat Waves and Hurricanes Are Converging on America by Jeff Nesbit, Thomas Dunne Books, St Martin’s Publishing Group, 2018, United States, 336 pp, ISBN: 9781250160461, price-$29.99 (2,257.17 Rs)
Heena Samant, Research Associate, VIF

We all have heard of climate change and its impact now and of future time and again. So much so, that it has now become the new normal. But it doesn’t really get the mind space that it needs, for various reasons. Then comes a book like Jeff Nesbit....

May 13, 2020 National Security and Strategic Studies , Climate Change , Book Reviews , Geopolitics , Impacts of climate change , Earth’s ecosystem
Universal Counter Covid-19 Strategy Framework (UCCSF): From a Coronavirus Infected World to a Coronavirus Immune World
Soumya Awasthi Article

Abstract
In the World, the SARS Cov-2 Covid-19 pandemic has grown exponential with 3.99 million confirmed cases and 278,814 deaths as on May 10, 2020. Countries have implemented varying levels of containment and social distancing measures....

May 13, 2020 National Security and Strategic Studies , Governance and Political Studies , Article , Coronavirus , COVID-19 , post corona world , Universal Counter Covid Strategy Framework (UCCSF) , Self-Preservation Mode , Covid Containment Mode , Economic Revival Mode , Herd Immunity Mode , Normalisation Mode , Darwinian Mode. Covid-19 Prediction , Covid-19 Strategy , Covid -19 Containment , National Lock Down , Future of Covid -19
Tablighi Jamaat in India: Evolution and Impact
Brig (Dr) Ashok Pathak (Retd.) Article

Brief Profile of Tablighi Jamaat (TJ)
The outbreak of COVID 19 pandemic in India coincided with headlines news in the Indian media on TJ. On 2 April 20 Lav Agarwal Joint Secretary Ministry of Health and Family Welfare stated ‘COVID-19 ....

May 12, 2020 National Security and Strategic Studies , Article , Covid 19 , Tablighi Jamaat , Markaz , Indian secularism , independence movement
Lockdown Scenario- A Golden Opportunity for Cyber Criminals
Anurag Sharma, Senior Research Associate, VIF Article

“Anyone who thinks that security products alone offer true security is settling for the illusion of security.”1 - Kevin D Mitnick
The emergence of Coronavirus (hereafter COVID-19) and its rapid spread has em....

May 08, 2020 National Security and Strategic Studies , Cyber Security , Article , India , Cyber Security , Cybercrime , lockdown , COVID19 , Cyberspace , Cybercriminals , Ransomware , Phishing , Child Protection
Beyond the COVID-19: Indian Defence Industry
Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM Article

The social media is bulging at seams in making unending predictions by the hour related to the ‘life after Covid’. The continuum ranges from a ‘total doomsday’ scenario painted by the naysayersto the ‘we will win’ and how the life will be....

May 06, 2020 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Article , Defence industry , COVID-19 , Challenges of Services , Defence and aerospace sector , Post covid world
The Maoists, Violence, and their ‘Alternate Revolutionary Programme’
Dr Uddipan Mukherjee Article

As human beings distance away from each other to deny the corona virus any additional mass and volume, the left-wing insurgents in India's dense jungles converge into south Bastar in central India from neighbouring provinces as well as from Nepal

May 06, 2020 Leftwing Extremism , National Security and Strategic Studies , Article , Maoists , Violence , ideology , Charu Mazumdar , CPI (M) , Lenin , Marx , Mao Tse-tung , New Democratic State , dictatorship of the proletariat
Biotechnology and Biological Warfare – its Applicability to Indian Armed Forces
Maj Gen (Retd.) P K Chakravorty Article

What is Biotechnology?
The technology which is based on biology is known as biotechnology which harnesses cellular and bio molecular processes to develop technologies and products that help improve our lives and the health of our planet.....

April 27, 2020 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Article , applications , Biotechnology , Biological , Delivery
Drone Swarms: Bracing up with The New Threat
Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM Article

(This article linked with a previous article titled, Drone Swarms - a Growing Lethality. Where is the world? Where are we? published on the VIF portal on 06 Apr 20201.While the said article highlighted the growing lethality of th....

April 27, 2020 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Article , Defence , Missiles , Hypersonic weapons , Drone swarms , Driven crafts , Swarm Threat
Ramzan Amidst Battle Against Coronavirus
Soumya Awasthi Article

Introduction
One of the most potent weapons against combatting Covid-19 pandemic is the norm of social distancing. Social congregation is an anathema to the norm of social distancing. Therefore, during the time when Covid-19 has spread it....

April 24, 2020 National Security and Strategic Studies , Article , India , COVID-19 , World , Ramzan , Deoband , Social distancing norms , Religious practices
Industry 4.0 Joins Fight to Contain COVID-19
Dr Vijay Sakhuja Article

“I have a 3D Printer and I am ready to join the fight against COVID-19” is the buzz among the technology developers. There is euphoria to use 3D printers to manufacture a variety of medical products and equipment such as face masks and shield, Pe....

April 21, 2020 National Security and Strategic Studies , Governance and Political Studies , Article , Indian Navy , Industry 4.0 , COVID-19 , Additive Manufacturing , 3D printing , Ventilators , Facemasks
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